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So we have the iPhone coming next month, it’s time that us in the UK and Europe began to take this seriously. The iPhone and iPod Touch, as I’m sure everyone in the tech industry knows, comes with a fully functional version of Apple’s Safari browser along with decent support for on-the-go internet. As you can appreciate, this is going to cause havoc for web developers.

Well, this isn’t really the case. Semantic markup done properly will work in any browser on any screen. If you have an iPhone or a Touch, head over to www.tropicana.co.uk and see for yourself! This site was built (by me) using XHTML 1.0 Transitional simply so that it would work perfectly in “normal” browsers. Now, seeing as Safari IS a normal browser, there’s no reason why it shouldn’t work.

There are, however, a few things to consider: (more…)

It seems that I can’t find the perfect Wordpress plugin for showing a minicalendar in the sidebar, so it looks like I’m going to need to create one myself!

I shall be re-using some sandbox code that I wrote one day whilst bored at the “monday job” to create the outline of the calendar, but I’m going to integrate it with Wordpress’ archiving structure and hopefully iCal.

This will then, if all goes well, be able to display both archived posts and iCal events in the same Calendar.

I also hope to utilise some XMLHttpRequest / DOM stuff (a.k.a Ajax) to move between months/years without having any nasty page refreshes. I think I’ll use a seperate stylesheet for the calendar so as to not get too bogged down each time I wish to make a change…

Watch this space!