While this book doesn’t go into much detail about iPhone development in particular, there is a section dealing with it, as well as Google’s Android, in the the final chapter.

With the advent of the iPhone and other smart phones being geared towards the everyday user market its becoming even more important for any given website to be mobile accessible. As far as I know, the iPhone is the only exception where it can view any page without any rendering problems (basically if it works with safari it works on the iPhone). However, of all the smart phones out there the iPhone accounts for very few of the users especially in the business market (where the blackberry has been a powerful tool for years). Personally, I believe at least with this respect, that more phones should follow apple’s philosophy where by any page should be rendered nicely (and I believe that that is where the future is headed), but from a programmers perspective you have to realize that many mobile users that are viewing your page may not be using a phone that can render most pages nicely. That is where mobile web development is most important.

Sorry if my post seems like a pitch for the iPhone but I believe that in the future many phones will include many of the same browsing features. With the technological progress of many phone producers offering phones with bigger and bigger displays, their browsing technologies are bound to become more and more sophisticated to match many of the achievements made in the world of desktop computing.

-Jordan