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Developing iphone web application

I am currently working on an iphone web application. The first thing I looked for is how to create an iphone-like UI. Luckily I came across a UI framework called iUI which provides a template for UI we often see in iphone applications. It provides a css and javascript along with sample examples to show the usage. Once I downloaded the framework I was ready to create UI screens for my web application. However, I wanted to setup a development environment so that I could test the pages quickly in an emulator. Apple has released an sdk for iphone which can be downloaded from Apple Developer Connection site. But it only works on Mac at this time. For windows, Aptana has created an iphone plug-in for eclipse that can be used during the development as an iphone emulator. It is very helpful as it provides a quick way to see how the page would appear on an iphone. Plus, it has a built-in server that can be used to test the pages on the iphone handset. I enabled wi-fi on iphone and was able t