ceremorphosis

Safari on the iPhone is admittedly very good, and easily the best browser on a mobile device – yes, even better than Mobile Opera. Mobile Safari handles navigation and presentation of most sites well. That said, a site formatted specifically for a resolution and speed of data is usually a much more pleasant experience.

Enter the iWPhone WordPress Plugin and Theme. If you visit this blog on an iPhone or iPod Touch now, it will be formatted specifically for the device. (Alternatively, you can use the debug menu in Safari 3 beta and change your User Agent. That’s a lot of trouble just to see this site, though. ) If you don’t have an iPhone or iPod Touch, you will have to take my word that the plugin does a very good job of presentation and formatting for the devices.

It is interesting that despite all of the work that Apple did to ensure Safari works so well with full-fledged web sites there are a growing number of sites moving to iPhone-optimized sites. As a long time Palm Blazer and Pocket IE sufferer user, this growth in optimized sites that aren’t just poorly beefed up WAP sites is amazing. The work Facebook put into their Web site for the iPhone is amazing. (I still don’t really get the Facebook explosion, though.)