According to the web tracker StatCounter, the Apple iPhone (and Wi-Fi iPod Touch) is the most used mobile phone browser for internet access in the U.S. Almost 25% of all internet traffic from cell phone browsers is generated from the iPhone! This is truly amazing, because it’s only been on the market since last summer.

More and more people are leaving their laptops in their cases and opting to cruise the net on cell phones. I have to admit that I, too, caught the iPhone bug and left Verizon Wireless for AT&T. Already a web junkie, I can now surf practically anywhere using the fully HTML-supported iPhone Safari browser.

So what does my totally cool iPhone have to do with work, you ask? Well, I’ve added the iPhone Safari browser to our list of browsers we use to test our clients’ websites. If a quarter of mobile surfers are riding the iPhone Safari browser, we’d better be prepared! By default, we test the sites we develop to make sure they display properly on the following common browsers:

• IE Windows
• Firefox Windows
• Firefox Mac
• Safari Mac
• and now, Safari iPhone