Ryan at 37signals remarked that designing for the iPhone is like a hybrid of print and web design, because whilst there is the interactive element of a web page, other aspects such as page size and fonts are fixed and known.

Something at the back of my mind that I’ve been pondering on, related to the absence of Flash or Java support is this:

The iPhone gives web designers the opportunity to design for the web properly, returning to the core of what the web is about (i.e. communication), whilst embracing the experiences of the past 12 years. That is, the web done properly, without the extraneous fill-in technologies that have been stop-gaps because none of us knew what was possible in the first place. Now we do, so, with the iPhone, we can damn well get on and do it.