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There are many web services customized for iPhone experience. Sometimes they excel those for normal web browsers. They also come handy, when you are not interested in giving whole desktop just for one web service, like e.g. SocialThing! or Google Tasks. And the Safari iPhone experience is also quite sleek and very minimalistic. There is a workaround for it, where you can make these WebApps as Desktop Apps.

The solution is creating a WebApp using Fluid. Just create a normal web app as instructed. After creating it, launch it! Now what you have to do is to change the User Agent setting, so that it is recognized as Mobile Safari not as a desktop Safari. Under the application menu you can find User Agent. Now select Other... There you put the following string:

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Mobile/5H11 Safari/525.20

Now restart the just created application and you have iPhone optimized WebApp on Desktop. This workaround was made for Gmail Tasks, which seems to be working with other apps.