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Joe Hewitt has just released IUI, which are some nice little JavaScript libraries and style sheets to help you create a very cool front end GUI for your web based iPhone applications.

"First and foremost, iUI is not meant as a "JavaScript library". Its
goal is simply to turn ordinary standards-based HTML into a polished,
usable interface that meets the high standards set by Apple’s own
native iPhone apps. As much as possible, iUI maps common HTML idioms to
iPhone interface conventions. For example, the <ul> and
<li> tags are used to create hierarchical side-scrolling
navigation. Ordinary <a> links load with a sliding animation
while keeping you on the original page instead of loading an entirely
new one. A simple set of CSS classes can be used to designate things
like modal dialogs, preference panels, and on/off switches.

Let me re-emphasize that all of this is done without the need for
you to write any JavaScript. It is meant to feel as though HTML was the
iPhone’s own UI language."

I recommend tht you take a look at it if you’re thinking about doing any iPhone work. He also has some great examples here.

I swore at the beginning of this year that I would try to ship more software. I have a habit of waiting until something is perfect–which in the software world never happens–and thus never getting stuff out of the development stage. With the goal of getting software live and online I am finally releasing an update to a three year old project called NursingFAQs.com which is trying to be the largest human edited repository of Nursing Knowledge on the internet. This is the first of 5 updates I have planned for the next 3 weeks. The final one being an entirely new and feature rich version written in PHP and MYSQL.

So…if you’re a nurse, or if you know a nurse, send them over to NursingFAQs.com and have them ask or answer any question related to Nursing.