Apple released it’s SDK yesterday, including a full development implementation of the iPhone platform, with mobile safari using exactly the same rendering engine (not a webkit wrapper of a local safari install).
We tested it on the iPlayer development site, but as Aspen uses a different user agent to the iPhone (Mozilla/5.0 (Aspen Simulator; U; Aspen 1_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1 Mobile/5A147p Safari/5525.7) we had to alter a few browser checks server-side to accommodate the simulator;
Checkout the movie preview of the iPhone and BBC iPlayer in action; http://codepress.co.uk/screencasts/iphone-simulator.mov
NB: There is currently a problem with quicktime implementation (no visuals, only sound).
UPDATE: The Aspen Simulator is bundled in the iPhone SDK; http://developer.apple.com/iphone/
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March 8th, 2008 at 15:36
So, any idea how to do it with the public iplayer and aspen simulator, without packet manipulation?
I can’t even get WebKit nightly build to load the iPlayer page with a fake ‘Mobile Safari’ user agent, it freezes when it tries to load the quicktime plugin…
March 8th, 2008 at 23:31
You’ll need to hexedit the aspen simulator for that; http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1431836&tstart=0