Saturday, June 23, 2007

Neven's iPhone web app portal

Here's the deal: I'll make more iPhone web apps in the weeks and months to come. iPhone users will want to browse those on their iPhones, and desktop users will probably want to find out a little more about the apps. Since my goal is to make these apps as iPhone-like as possible, I'm making separate websites for non-iPhone users. These will be bigger pages with more info; in contrast, iPhone pages will be short and sweet.

It'll work like this:

  • If you visit OneTrip.org on your iPhone, you'll be using OneTrip, the shopping list app.

  • If you visit OneTrip.org on something else - a "big" computer - you'll see OneTrip's page at Neven Mrgan's web apps for iPhone, a new portal website I'm launching.

  • If you visit OneTrip.orgapps on your iPhone, you'll see a cute little app launcher interface.

  • If you visit OneTrip.org/apps on some other device, you'll see the home page of the portal.


The portal includes framed versions of the iPhone apps and a little more info than you can find on the pages of the apps themselves. I know this might sound complicated, but it all happens automagically - just visit any of these URLs in any browser*, and we'll figure out whether to serve you the "desktop version" or the iPhone app:



Eventually the portal may move to a domain of its own. I'll redirect everything so you don't have to think too much about how it works.

* no IE. Duh.

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