"Pretty soon you'll be using your iPhone", said the attorney in the elevator just five minutes ago. He'd glanced at me checking things on my (now terribly outdated) Blackberry Pearl. Everyone's talking about the iPhone. No, _everyone_ is talking about it. Just goes to show how big an announcement it really was.

There are so many thoughts about this thing, but rather than add to the noise, here's one I hadn't yet seen mentioned: with a _reliable_ browser on the iPhone (Safari) and all that it brings in terms of standards support, JS, DOM, etc., will we start looking closer at resolution dependent layouts (Clagnut: Variable fixed width layout) (or other methods) for sites that _would or could_ function as well as their larger screen counterparts?

We're essentially talking about a fully-browsable web and everything that comes along with that in Safari. Just on a smaller screen. I realize that already exists to a certain extent with Webkit on the Nokia, Opera, and probably others, but the typical screen dimensions on a mobile phone are tiny. Seeing Steve Jobs turn the device and browse "widescreen" was eye-opening. That extra horizontal space could really increase the readability of non-mobile-specific sites as is.

The vulcan-death-pinch-squeezy thing for zooming looks great, mind you. Fluid layout for screens this small isn't optimal, while multiple columns could just get too narrow (in the absence of min-width) -- but I could see where leveraging the browser to adjust layout based on screen resolution could make things interesting in certain situations. And it'll of course be fun to find out what this all means.

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