[willwashburn]

Not that I don't believe you, but really?

For example, any website I've built I can surely make with just a text editor but I'll lay it out with ps first. That way I can go back and check what colors / gradients / dimensions I used to speed up the process.

I would image this would require something similar but to the nth degree. That is, I count 20 something <b></b> tags to make the clouds in the mail icon. Is that really just guess and check?!

[openbear]

There's a brief writeup here ...

http://blog.graphicpeel.com/post/740928981/ios-icons-made-in...

... it's not the same guy, but the above blog post is the first time I remember seeing someone do iOS icons in pure CSS.

The whole thing is fun more than practical ... kind of like ASCII art for a new generation ;-)

[hendrik-xdest]

Interesting. These icons don't work in the latest Firefox but the ones used for the iPhone Demo do.

[dextorious]

"""For example, any website I've built I can surely make with just a text editor but I'll lay it out with ps first. That way I can go back and check what colors / gradients / dimensions I used to speed up the process."""

You may be a bit behind the times:

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1061-why-we-skip-photoshop

http://24ways.org/2009/make-your-mockup-in-markup