All of Our Websites Are iPhone Ready!
Yeah, yeah... I know. I'm jumping on the media bandwagon here. But the truth is, we've been building websites to be standards compliant ever since we knew what that meant.No secrets here, I’m a Mac guy. Have been ever since I decided to go to Kinko’s and make my band’s promo post cards. I tried to use the PC’s… hell, everybody KNOWS Apple is going out of business, why waste time on a dead platform? But after a half hour of struggling I moved over to the Mac and soon had postcard art set up.
Nothing burns me up more than to go to a website, attempt to access some feature or just navigate the site and get a “You need to upgrade to Internet Explorer” or “Sorry, we only support IE” message. Worse yet are the sites with no warning at all… they just don’t work in Safari or even Firefox for Mac. The response to Mac users in the past has been “You are less than 3% of our user base” a flawed statement at best as it’s silly to equate overall marketshare sales figures of computers with actual people that use computers. Think about it, those marketshare numbers include computers used as cash registers, kiosks, and simple business machines. Until recently all sorts of businesses used the marketshare figures as an excuse for sloppy coding and lack of support for the open standards that Mac OSX is based on.
Now along comes the iPhone. Possibly the most hyped techno gadget in the universe, this little wonder will give its affluent consumer-owner a REAL internet experience… as long as the site they visit is compatible with the Safari browser. So all you “We don’t care about Macs” web developers look out. Some day soon one of your clients will ask why their boss can’t see the dynamic content on the company website on their shiny new iPhone and you’re going to fire up Internet Explorer and answer, “It looks fine to me. Tell your boss to use Explorer.”
And the boss will call us.
Imp Designs, iPhone ready since 1999.