Here's a 30 second demo of an amazing little site called Glyphboard. I am not sure how this is able to work as a stand-alone web app on the iPhone but it does and the results are rather remarkable. I recorded this screencast by the way on the iPhone using a Lifecasting. You can get it here.
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It is a webapp running in mobile safari. Any webpage can achieve this by adding the right meta tags to the html and having the user to add the page to his homescreen.
So the smart part is that this particular webapp leaves the user no other option but to add the app to the homescreen, thus making it feel like a native app.
It does that by using the metatag (meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes") in the head of the html document. Once you add a webpage with this metatag to your iphone home screen, it will launch without any browser chrome. It still runs inside mobile safari, but in a kiosk-mode kind of way.
This has been possible since iphone 2.1 I believe.
Hope this helps. Cheers.
If I copy one to the scratch-board area, there is no box, but if I copy one to an email, there is a box around it. This makes this App, as I said, useless.
Omegaman
Actually, Omegaman, this only happens when you paste into a rich-text field. Try pasting it into a non-rich-text field first (like a search field), then cut and paste it into the rich-text field.