WebKitBits

Smashing Magazine has a great roundup posts of iPhone-optimized websites. Includes some of my favorites, like Nike Lab and Volkswagen.

jqtouch:

The new beta of jQTouch is ready for download with a ton of enhancements and fixes. For those who don’t know, jQTouch is a jQuery plugin which helps create immersive experiences on the iPhone and iPod Touch. New in beta 2:

• 8 core page animations (including several 3d options) and the ability to easily add your own. See the animations running like butter in a demo video.
• Support for custom extensions, including 4 built-in sample extensions for geo location, offline support, a “floaty” menu, and automatic title creation.
• A public object now allows you to manipulate jQTouch dynamically with functions like goTo(), goBack(), and submitForm().
• A “fast touch” feature is enabled by default, improving responsiveness up to 500% in some cases.

Check out the new preview on your iPhone and download a copy to play with today!

Steve Smith shows how to fix the bulky sub-pixel text rendering in Snow Leopard’s Safari, now that the text-shadow trick no longer works.

Maciej Stachowiak, from Apple, will now be helping steer HTML5 as part of the W3C’s HTML Working Group. We can hope this means a focus on WebKit’s priorities for HTML5 like improved offline storage, background workers, and geo location.

The recently released Snow Leopard finally brings 3d transitions to Safari (also available in WebKit on Leopard). This site provides a list of sites which demonstrate this impressive new feature.