iphonecentral.jpgFaithful iPhone Central reader Walter R. Basil wrote to us:

How about a light version of iPhone central for those of us browsing from our iPhones? Using EDGE of course.

Well, I suppose we should– hey! Whaddayamean you want a light version of the site? The whole point of the iPhone is to browse the “real” web, not a simplified version of same.

But Walt’s note got me thinking. It’s true, the way the site was designed caused our right hand columns to load before the subject matter column on the left, which always annoyed me and made the site seem very slow, particularly on the iPhone.

Well, as of today it doesn’t do that anymore. We’ve rejiggered our CSS (and we all know how




painful that can be), and now iPhone Central should feel a lot faster at loading, particularly that all-important composition column on the left side.

Also, yesterday we implemented an experiment — an iPhone-style version of iPhone Central. We used Joe Hewitt’s iUI to implement, and there are no guarantees that it won’t break or stop working at some point, but for now whether you’d like to take it for a analysis drive and let us know what you think, we’d be happy to receive your comments.

But seriously — try browsing the regular site on your iPhone. It should load a lot better now. And thanks, Walt, for providing the gentle prod to my posterior.

Original post by Jason Snell

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