In a Digg blog post, I read that Kevin Rose, Joe Stump, and Daniel Burka all sat down and thought of a way to design a Digg iPhone application. Joe Stump was able to code the application within 48 hours, so Kevin Rose had to buy him an iPhone.
The Digg iPhone application is available at www.digg.com/iphone and features story scrolling, a list of the top 5 comments, login, “digg it” buttons, jump to any topic, and pagination.
I also tried the Digg iPhone application on the Apple Safari web browser and Mozilla Firefox and it was fully functional on those platforms. However, the Digg iPhone application unsurprisingly did not work functionally on Internet Explorer 7.0 or on Internet Explorer for Windows Mobile 5.0 (standard browser on the Motorola Q mobile phone).
However, I did install Opera Mobile 8.65 Beta for the Motorola Q as Marshall Kirkpatrick suggested the last time I complained about Digg not working on the Motorola Q and it seems to be somewhat functional (meaning that the links work, but I don’t think the Digg It feature works).
It doesn’t look as sleek as it does on the iPhone, but at least it’s somewhat functional. And for that, I give Digg a little bit of credit. Ideally, Digg should work on every browser or have the ability to determine what browser a user is surfing with and accommodate to that.
