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I Would Simply Like To Support iPhone But I Cannot

Update Before other silly flame/blame will start, I have already twitted that my next laptop will be a netbook. Here the related tweet . let me summarize the story: at that time I had a girlfriend with an iPhone so I though why on earth shouldn't I buy an Android instead? If I need some test online I'll have both to test it , and I've rarely been that wrong. Wanna Develop for iPhone? Buy a Mac As marketing strategy sounds " cool " except I do not want to develop iPhone application, the present and the future is online, why on earth should I learn another programming language from the scratch, Objective-C, to develop something that will be relatively soon replaceable via WebKit and a good host? Wanna Develop Web for iPhone? Buy a Mac Again!!! Unbelievable, there is not such a thing: online iPhone tester , everything I found Googling was about a silly image with an iframe just to test the iPhone size ... are you kidding me ? It's like put IE inside an iframe ins...

Advertisement revolution? A first try for Android, iPhone, and PCs

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Introduction Nowadays, we read news about new libraries, technologies, etc etc, but there is an area in this Web 2.0 era which seems to be " stuck " since big G introduced AdSense : a new way to deliver advertisement, compatible with new devices such as Google Android and Apple iPhone . Even if Google proposes AdSense for mobiles as well, we know that those simple text boxes do not cope properly with Android and iPhone innovative web browsers. This is why I have though about a new way to show ads, unobtrusive, cross-browser, and in a way even funny, with less than 2Kb minified and gzipped code, library independent, with everything inside its own closure ;-) Ad 2.0 Introduction The iframe below perfectly represents my idea of mobile advertisement, idea that I will explain better a bit further down. Every 10 seconds, a little banner comes up at the bottom of the screen, and it persists for 2 seconds before it disappears. The number of bunners can be from 1 till unlimited, in ...