Apple Prepares Website for International iPhone Launch

[MacRumors]

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iPhone Tab as seen on the Apple.com (http://www.apple.com)
In the days leading to the 2008 Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple has started making small changes to some of their international websites hinting at the imminent launch of the iPhone in Brazil, Canada and Mexico. In the HTML source code for Apple's websites for Canada (http://www.apple.com/ca/), Brazil (http://www.apple.com/br/), and Mexico (http://www.apple.com/mx/), one reader found the following code:


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This represents HTML code for an "iPhone" navigation tab wrapped in HTML comment tags so Web browsers will ignore it. When Apple removes the surrounding comment code, it will reveal an "iPhone" tab (see above) on these country's webpages.

Rogers previously announced (http://www.macrumors.com/2008/04/29/rogers-to-bring-iphone-to-canada/) that they would be delivering the iPhone to Canadian customers while America Movil has announced (http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5iAAVQ_fHoWRVWKYPvxnRZc8ArMLw) iPhone support for Mexico and Brazil.

Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference kicks off on Monday, June 9th, 2008.

Update: The Canadian webpage apparently has had this code since August 2007. Mexico also since August.

Article Link (http://www.macrumors.com/2008/06/08/apple-prepares-website-for-international-iphone-launch/)

[DMann]

Ready for prime time!

[ReanimationLP]

So much iPhone news.

I think my heads gonna explode.

[tennismanclay]

how do ppl find these things?

[rvk27]

this will make almost anyone want an iphone

[Telp]

So much iPhone news.

I think my heads gonna explode.

Same here. It is making me so anxious that I can't even stand it anymore.

[albinoAZN]

how do ppl find these things?

just poking around :P

[icy-macpro]

This makes me feel bad... now my iphone wont be the only "sexy" one in Canada.

[Eric Lewis]

omg iPhone canada...wooo

so exicted

its my graduating present

better be good data!

[avigalante]

how do ppl find these things?

I always wondered the same thing. How can someone even think to look through HTML source code? Ah - people are crazy.

[Dmac77]

Seriously, are there people who spend their days checking HTML codes, OS X code, etc. Don't people have anything better to do?

Don

[queshy]

how do ppl find these things?

Lmao, no life, maybe?

Seriously though, bring it on to CANADA already!

[mcarnes]

Bring on the show.

http://glocktalk.com/forums/images/smilies/popcorn1.gif

[ingenious]

I always wondered the same thing. How can someone even think to look through HTML source code? Ah - people are crazy.

better yet, how can anyone have the time to go look through a corporate home page's source code? :eek:

[Pippen Man]

And in other news, Steve Jobs was seen leaving his car with new tires, a sign that a new product may be coming out soon.;)

[jackjason]

I will be the first one to order ..
mark my word.
I bet an iphone v.2

[avigalante]

better yet, how can anyone have the time to go look through a corporate home page's source code? :eek:

Good point - but then again there are all those people that spend time in making mockups and photoshopped pics... seriously, don't people go outside anymore and play baseball or something?

And in other news, Steve Jobs was seen leaving his car with new tires, a sign that a new product may be coming out soon.;)

"We do not comment on upcoming or unreleased products."

[Scandals]

The code has existed on Apple's Canadian site for months already. Not really anything to report about.

[rvk27]

This makes me feel bad... now my iphone wont be the only "sexy" one in Canada.

It probably wont be

[GRB]

LOL, this has been up for months on this forum and you guys never noticed

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=339343
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=338769

nice research there MacRumors.

[dukebound85]

LOL, this has been up for months on this forum and you guys never noticed

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=339343

nice research there MacRumors.

well thats a party pooper if i ever saw one haha

[Chundles]

better yet, how can anyone have the time to go look through a corporate home page's source code? :eek:

I just had a look at the Aussie one - the code is surprisingly short.

6 pages when copied directly into text edit - large font and it's spaced pretty big too. There's not much code there to be honest. Not hard to paste it all into a pages doc and search for iPhone.

[Rocketman]

better yet, how can anyone have the time to go look through a corporate home page's source code? :eek:

Hmmm. A million customers. Bell curve. The bleeding edge 1-2% are still 10,000 geeks. Say some of them occasionally browse source, especially considering the product release timing, and IM and email each other. These geeks are hooked-up.

Not surprising considering the apparent "kudos" people get for any leak or observation whatsoever.

They sure don't do it for the money!

Rocketman

[arn]

LOL, this has been up for months on this forum and you guys never noticed

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=339343
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=338769

nice research there MacRumors.

noted... and updated the story. brazil and mexico may be new. Anyone seen previous references to that?

arn

[Eric Lewis]

So much iPhone news.

I think my heads gonna explode.

oh wow..same...like i cant sleep its 12:45am here...

must stay up and wait for more news/leaks!

[alenm88]

The code has existed on Apple's Canadian site for months already. Not really anything to report about.

Exactly. This code has been there for years in all american sites. Apple like many webdesigner just use the commente tag in HTML to hide it so they dont have to do 2 versions of the stuff (in this case the menu bar)

< !--my comment - - >

Stop pretending to be "the hackers" ;)

[jpqsmex]

also the code on the mexican page has been there since long ago

[D4F]

Man people have way too much time on their hands...:rolleyes:

[Edgardo]

Update: The Canadian webpage apparently has had this code since <a href="http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?p=9678851#post9678851">August 2007</a>, as first noted by Gene Rayburn, though the Mexico and Brazil changes may be new.

I've seen the same on the Mexico's page since Aug 2007.

[twoodcc]

well i guess this has been there for awhile, but still could mean something

[arn]

I've seen the same on the Mexico's page since Aug 2007.

Oops. :) I've moved it to page 2 and updated it.

Sorry guys...
arn

[TheAnswer]

/subtle?

[carfreak12321]

How bout Japan
when they gonna launch iphone in Japan

Softbank already announced it but when will people be ble to buy it:confused:

[rubenerd]

No hint on either the Singapore or Australia Apple websites, though I assumed as much. Despite carriers here saying they'll be selling them, I think it will be delayed till later this year -- bummer!!

[jmadlena]

Some people are wondering how people find these things, and how they make the time to find it. I believe I can show you that it's not that hard.

1. Be bored
2. On Apple's homepage, press Option-Command-U
3. Press Command-F
4. Type iPhone

There you go, the first thing that comes up is what is discussed in the article. That is how people found the iPhone code hiding in the page. Yeah, they must not have a life if they spent 5 seconds doing that :rolleyes:

[Brianstorm91]

This is getting really kind of.. Stalkerish.

[mogzieee]

So much iPhone news.

I think my heads gonna explode.

Same here. WWDC is gunna be so boring - no MAC hardware whatsoever. I'm dissapointed its all come down to a mobile phone.

how do ppl find these things?

A lot of spare time... ;)

[H$R]

Seriously, are there people who spend their days checking HTML codes, OS X code, etc. Don't people have anything better to do?

Don

They do it for YOU!. Just that YOU can read this stuff here on the forums and get the infos you wouldn't know otherwise.
So the real question is: Don't you have anything better to do than reading this forum all the time?

To be fair, as you ses, mysef am reading here, but the magic solution is to keep time for everything you need/want to do.
Maybe they only check from time to time (and with a bit imagination, it would be logical to search for that iPhone tap..though it's old news.) or hell yes, maybe they really have no friends and nothing to do!! :eek::D

EDIT: And as you can see from all the other posts, its not as hard and time consuming as you might have thought in the first place.

[BRLawyer]

noted... and updated the story. brazil and mexico may be new. Anyone seen previous references to that?

arn

Nope, in fact Brazil is also new, since only recently the local news channels reported increased Apple activity due to the emergence of the country as a global economic power and its overall stability.

Apart from Mexico as obvious NAFTA partner and Apple's neighbor market, Brazil is next with more than 50,000 iPhones already, and will provide Apple with yet another iPhone cash cow.

[ArtOfWarfare]

I looked through the code on the US site to find out how they made the tab bar so I could copy the code onto my own website.

[kornyboy]

Wirelessly posted (iPhone: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/4A102 Safari/419.3)

how do ppl find these things?

Curiosity leads to snooping around. The more hints you come across the better. I do hope whoever found this one did a word search ok the page source and did not manually look for that line of code.

[earnjam]

I looked through the code on the US site to find out how they made the tab bar so I could copy the code onto my own website.

I'm assuming you just mean to learn the technique for the mouse-over rather than to steal their navbar. They use the best method because it prevents the stupid flicker effect in IE6. (Curse you IE6...:mad:)

Curiosity leads to snooping around. The more hints you come across the better. I do hope whoever found this one did a word search ok the page source and did not manually look for that line of code.

Even if you didn't do a word search, it would be logical to check the navigation bar, since that is where it already appears on apple.com.

If you have the Firebug extension for Firefox, you can just inspect whatever part of the page you want. Pretty useful tool if you're a web developer.

[cosmokanga2]

Seriously, are there people who spend their days checking HTML codes, OS X code, etc. Don't people have anything better to do?


For HTML it's a piece of cake in Safari. Right click on a page, View Source, Command + F, type what ever you want to find.

[Clipse79]

No photoshop involved in this one! Damn I went and looked at the code and found it in 2 seconds. OH BABY! OH BABY! OH BABY! Common Rogers get your act together, have this phone available soon! And P.S If its not cheap on a three year plan i`ll beat up a old lady for one....

[emulator]

Good point - but then again there are all those people that spend time in making mockups and photoshopped pics... seriously, don't people go outside anymore and play baseball or something?
And posting this sentence on a message board is not a bit hypocritical, right?

[DiamondMac]

So much iPhone news.

I think my heads gonna explode.

Ha! My thoughts exactly

Though some do not like all of this crazy information, I found all of it to be hilarious and exciting

I come to this site FOR this crazy Australian box photos that probably aren't true, the "I work for AT&T store and they arent letting me off the week of <insert date>", etc...

[acfusion29]

I think this is because when they update the front page for the US website, they gotta do it for the Canadian one as well, so they just take the American one and paste that code in there so it changes it to a the regular navigation without an iPhone link.

And for people saying who has the time to look through HTML... simple. You right click, view source, then hit command+F (or ctrl+f for windows) and search 'iPhone' (no '') ... it's not rocket science.

http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/8472/picture1up1.png
That was easy ;)

[ruffdeezy]

I don't think it really means a lot as it's just a piece of code hidden in the page at the moment, especially since it's been there a long time for the Canadian store. They probably just use the same template anyway. But we do know the iPhone is coming, just a matter of when. If they had added that code yesterday or the button was there now, I would probably be a little more excited about that.

[brockm]

I don't think it really means a lot as it's just a piece of code hidden in the page at the moment, especially since it's been there a long time for the Canadian store. They probably just use the same template anyway. But we do know the iPhone is coming, just a matter of when. If they had added that code yesterday or the button was there now, I would probably be a little more excited about that.

Well, Roger's website is down for "upgrades" tonight.

[Mushrooshi]

So much iPhone news.

I think my heads gonna explode.

lol aizen taichou

[ArtOfWarfare]

I'm assuming you just mean to learn the technique for the mouse-over rather than to steal their navbar.

Yeah. I found out how to make the mouse over work and how to make them link to other sections of the website. The other (head) admin took it down because he didn't like the art style... lots of members have been complaining about it but none of them have actually made something that satisfies him. I think he was just worried about me going over his head... :rolleyes:

If you have the Firebug extension for Firefox, you can just inspect whatever part of the page you want. Pretty useful tool if you're a web developer.

I'll have to try that out sometime...