Perhaps I’m a grumpy English cynic, but rejigging your page layout so that it doesn’t get mulched in mobile Safari doesn’t make your site into “an iPhone app” – it just means you’re more accessible. Yet until more developers start ekeing out every scrap of usability from the SDK-less handset we’ll have to make do with column-friendly websites maskerading as whiz-bang programmes.

Latest to squash their stuff is Fluther, a “collective” of people to whom you can pose questions and have an answer in real-time (assuming there’s someone there, and that the someone knows the answer). Just looking at their front page shows the varied sort of topics covered: everything from “what are some exotic grillable kebab ideas?” to “why is my Saab 900 squeaking?”

Go to http://iphone.fluther.com and you’ll find their new layout; strangely enough the iPhone Safari emulator doesn’t seem to want to display it without scrollbars (hence the screenshot above), but hopefully the real thing is a bit more ergonomic.

[via Scobelizer]