During the iPhoneDevCamp, OpenLaszlo team took the time to create a first iPhone application called “NewsMatch” and prove that Open Laszlo compiles to standards-compliant DHTML that works well in every major browser, including Safari on the iPhone. The application simply grab RSS from Yahoo including news and photos, then user have to match news title to photo to read the news itself. Probably not the best way to read news, but lots of a fun and especially an excellent experiment to see OpenLaszlo able to create complex applications for iPhone.

iPhone Link : http://labs.openlaszlo.org/ipdc/newsmatch06/
Website : http://weblog.openlaszlo.org/archives/2007/07/our-first-iphone-app/

After some JavaScript experiments with iPhone, Joe Hewitt just created iBug, a new Firebug bridge for iPhone. Writing and debugging JavaScript from iPhone screen isn’t that fun, that’s why iBug is a network proxy to the phone which allow debugging your AJAX applications directly from your computer “with its big screen and real keyboard”. iBug uses Python for the server, to get it work here are the steps :

1. Download ibug0.1.zip and unzip it somewhere, anywhere on your computer
2. Make sure you have Python installed - if you are on a Mac, it is already there, if you are on Windows, download it here
3. Open your terminal and cd to the ibug directory that you just unzipped
4. Run python ibug.py launch - it will start the web server and open the console in your browser. If you don’t want to open the console, remove the launch argument.
5. Copy the snippet of HTML that you see in the console and paste it into the head of any HTML pages you want to debug on your iPhone
6. That’s it! console.log() calls on the phone will now show up in your browser, and you can use the command line to enter JavaScript commands that execute on the phone. To stop the server, just hit Ctrl-C.

Morfik Chess application was on the first applications showed by Morfik as demo of their Scriptor technology and how it converts desktop applications from Pascal to Javascript. Today iPhone users can play with iChess, an optimized version of the AJAX Chess application for iPhone. The game works perfectly also on other browsers IE, Firefox and Safari. Just a tip, that iChess is playable even without internet connexion. You can give it a test, and you will see that it’s not that easy to beat your iPhone in chess.

iPhone link : http://ichess.morfik.com
Website : http://chess.morfik.com