For years I’ve maintained that I hate Flash. It is aptly named and I have can’t stand it. Too many times it is just simple fluff and is never worth the model it breaks. Think about it, once you enter a site with flash and use it’s usually clunky navigation, you’re stuck. You can’t use your browsers back and forward buttons to traverse the site, you can’t bookmark a certain location within the animation. While it has it’s place for flashy animations for artistic sites, I would never use it for my navigation or for anything of importance on my site. In my book it’s just another way to break your site!

Apparently the people at Apple feel the same at least for their new iPhones. The Safari browser for iPhone does not display Flash videos. Kudos to Apple!

Here is a list of the areas to watch out for when developing for the iPhone.

• Validate your HTML and CSS
• Don’t use Flash, Look at QuickTime instead
• Watch you widths and sizes, look at using relative sizing
• Look at using new viewport meta tag
• Integrating with Google Maps is a bit different
• Automatic phone number links
• Use XHTML/HTML and CSS to keep page sizes to a minimum
• Keep number of CSS rules to a minimum.
• Use iPhone CSS to load lower resolution images
• Be conservative with JavaScript
• Create different content for desktop and iPhone browsers
• Don’t reinvent the iWheel

Read more at A List Apart Article

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