title: Should I use Table View or one long chunk of HTML for iPhone?
body: <p>I'm making an application for the iPhone. Essentially it'll be a guide of sorts, and all the generated information will be in one long window. Each block of information can have a 'link' in it to generate another block of connected information (for example a block about <em>Wallace</em> could link to a block about <em>Gromit</em>) that would appear at the top.</p>
  
  <p>For example, at the start 1 block of data:</p>
  
  <p><strong>Wallace</strong>: Owner of <em>Gromit</em></p>
  
  <p>would become 2 blocks (on clicking <em>Gromit</em>):</p>
  
  <p><strong>Gromit</strong>: <em>Wallace's</em> Dog</p>
  
  <p><strong>Wallace</strong>:Owner of <em>Gromit</em></p>
  
  <p>Each block would also have the ability to be added to favorites list by clicking an icon. The text would need to be laid out with HTML and each block may be of a different length. A search on a different could also add a block to the top. </p>
  
  <p>I'm OK with objects in 'easy' languages like PHP, but am basically new to iPhone and Cocoa, and I want to start off with the right approach here. A Table and cells looks like the correct approach, but is there any advantage of doing it as a long list (like I might do on a web version) or are there any restrictions in the way cells can hold/layout information that will cause me trouble down the line.</p>
  
  <p>I believe this approach is popular for dictionaries.</p>
  
  <p>I'm committed to doing it the way with a single scroll for a couple of reasons. The main one is that I want the user to be able to scroll instantly back to entries they've looked at before. i.e. the single view essentially represents a history of the data they've looked at. (if it's a lot stuff can drop off the end). Each entry will be very short but there will be a lot in total. So if the user has looked at </p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Wallace </li>
  <li>Gromit</li>
  <li>The Wrong Trousers</li>
  <li>Cheese</li>
  <li>Penguin</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>And they are not looking at <em>Wallace</em>, a quick half second scroll takes them back to 'penguin'. </p>