iPhone Browser Simulator provides an iPhone sized web view with which to test your iPhone targetted apps, all in a pretty iPhone-inspired package.
This is a good project with excellent future potential however the system has several flaws as it currently stands. Firstly the User Agent does not always trigger the mobile detection javascript (eg Digg.com) resulting in it trying to fit the regular interface into the small screen area. Secondly, and more importantly from a design point of view, while the rendered web pages do fit on the screen pixel perfect the ability to interact with them is seriously flawed. The cursor position does not match up to the displayed links for instance. I find that I have to click about 1.5-2cm below the link to activate it. Clicking on a link in a vertical menu will result in the iPhoney app "clicking" a menu option well above the on-screen cursor position. If these issues can be sorted out then this project will have a very bright future. T
There is no indication what platform this runs on...except after you've already downloaded the whole thing to find out it's Mac only. :(
Cool project. I use it to test web pages and to make sure than can be read from Mobiles.
Grab a precompiled copy off of our project homepage. The release is tagged in our SVN repository. At present our #1 issue is replacing Cocoa-esque scrollbars with what you'd see on an iPhone instead. If anyone has some insight into this - please contact us!
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