Apple's Steve Jobs has said that Web-based applications will provide many new functions for the iPhone, but yesterday when we tested a range of web-based apps, they didn't work properly on the new device. Glide says they're in the process of fixing the problem for streaming music, videos and showing documents stored in users' online Glide accounts.

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We tested Glide's system, and they're right, for a limited number of file formats: Glide can now stream MP3 files and some MOV-format videos to our iPhone. DIVX videos in an AVI container, MP4 videos in an M4V container, and WMV format videos did not stream. Over Wi-Fi, music and videos both played well. Over EDGE, music played well but videos stopped after a few seconds. Glide is adding more codecs day by day, according to spokesman Donald Leka.

Glide users can also view entire PDF documents within Glide's interface on the iPhone, including Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents that Glide has converted to PDF. Unlike with iZoho and Google Docs, Glide's rudimentary "word processor" is also working. Glide's "word processor" is really just an HTML form field, rather than the fancy WYSIWYG editors that other online app suites are trying to provide.

"It took us two hours to do this," Leka said. Glide's engineers bought iPhones, got them back to the labs, and analyzed the browser's codec support.

Glide will add more codecs day by day, Leka said.

This is great news for iPhone owners. Apple didn't make it easy for Web 2.0 programmers to get their apps working on the iPhone - it seems a lot of sites need to be recoded. Hopefully, we'll see more appear over the next week.

iPhone users can access Glide at http://xmobile.glidesociety.com/