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Check out my new web application for the iPhone - it’s called “iFifteen,” and it implements the classic “fifteen puzzle“. As near as I can tell, this is the first version of the sliding block puzzle for iPhone

iFifteen has 12 different theme pictures, both the basic numbered version as well as a bunch of pictures. It’s a bit crude, and as of this writing loading is a bit wonky (working on it), but I’m quite pleased with the result - I think it points out the strengths and weaknesses of Safari on the iPhone. It also works great with Safari on the desktop, OK on Firefox, and probably not at all on Explorer (please, please, if you’re using IE 6.0 or earlier, do us web designers a favor and UPGRADE!!!)

I made this mostly to try out building a page via Javascript, and the results are some interesting code. If you read Javascript, check it out. I have to editorialize for a minute about that… Javascript is a funny thing, inasmuch as it has been forced on web developers by virtue of being included in pretty much every browser. Given that fact, it could have been horrible - but it isn’t! You can do some really elegant things in it, particularly when you use the Prototype.js library.

If you have an iPhone, please check out iFifteen