iPhone Browsers

[JAB Creations]

I'm just curious what browsers can run on an iPhone. I know Safari comes by default. I've seen a Gecko browser proclaiming to run on an iPhone in my access log. I wanted to confirm this though.

- John

[tedster]

Here's one official user agent string for the iPhone browser:

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A538b Safari/419.3

The "1A538b" was also "1A543a" at the iPhone's product launch, according to Matt Cutts' blog. I'm not sure what the two strings are all about, but it's still a specialized instance of Safari. From my research so far, it looks like that's the only browser you can get the iPhone to use currently.

[JAB Creations]

Thanks...

- John