Tip: See Your Site as the iPhone Sees It
June 29th, 2007
Marketcircle has just announced that its iPhone simulator, iPhoney, is going open source. Hooray. That means this cool applet will stay free and current.
iPhoney is a free, Mac-only app that lets web designers see their sites with pixel-perfect accuracy, according to Marketcircle. While this isn’t a full-blown iPhone simulator, it does let you preview your work via its Safari-based browser.
Looking for a way to see how your web creations will look on iPhone? Look no further. iPhoney gives you a pixel-accurate web browsing environment—powered by Safari—that you can use when developing web sites for iPhone. It’s the perfect 320 by 480-pixel canvas for your iPhone development. And it’s free.
Since I don’t have an iPhone, nor do I anticipate getting one any time soon, this is the best way I have to test my sites for the newest kid on the block.
In my own experimentation with iPhoney, the product worked as promised. Zoom to fit works (though the pinch-zoom doesn’t…yet), as does rotating the phone to go into landscape mode.
Links:
- iPhoney site
- SourceForge home (currently does not have a download package)
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