iphone-web-app

iPhone Web App Cache Persistence

How can I write an ASP.NET (C#) application that will render a page can be permanently cached on the iPhone when it is bookmarked as a "Homescreen Icon"? I have tried setting this on the code behind "Response.ExpiresAbsolute = DateTime.MaxValue;" but to no avail. The server code is still executed every time the home screen icon is laun...

iPhone and HTML5 Cache Manifest

I am trying to build an iPhone web application using ASP.NET. The page is dynamically rendered once for each visitor. At this point the page can be bookmarked and it will never change again for that visitor. For this reason it should be cached locally from that point on so the application will run if referenced from the bookmark even if...

Hiding Safari User Interface Components on iPhone

In an attempt to hide the Safari UI components for an web-app bookmarked as a Homescreen Icon. I am using this meta tag <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" /> as specified on iPhone Dev Center but the address bar and toolbar are still there when launched from the home screen icon. What do I need to do different? ...

iPhone friendly websites with ASP.NET MVC

Are there any resources or guidance out there on how to make iPhone friendly web applications? In my case specifically, I'd like to use ASP.NET MVC, but since that all runs on the server, I know it'll boil down to just markup/css/javascript considerations. edit: as I find other resources not mentioned here, I will update the question t...

How to direct my users to my iPhone enabled site?

I have made an iPhone friendly version of my site, that I want to direct my users to. The big question now is how to direct my users to this site. There are a few alternatives: Redirect the user based on the user agent, e.g. if the user agent sent by the browser contains "iPhone" or android or whatever. If the user agent matches the a...

Can iPhone web apps get GPS position?

Can iPhone web apps request and get the GPS position or do you need to use full-blown apps for this? ...

How to interact iphone with PHP/MySQl web server

Hi I want to interact my Iphone application with a php website having MySQL database. What basically I want is to fetch data from MySQL database and display it in my IPhone application and after doing some processing in IPhone I want to retrun some information to PHP website in form of XML. Can any one help me in doing so. Thanks in...

watchPosition() vs getCurrentPosition() w/ setTimeout

I need to determine a person's location within 50m. I'm wondering if I should use navigator.location.watchPostion() or call getCurrentPostion() over and over again. watchPostion() is the proper W3C API for doing what I want, but practically, it seems to be overkill. Here's my code: var map = null; var marker = null; var layer = null;...

jQTouch Spinning Wheel (Cubiq) Implementation Won't Work

I am trying to get a nice Spinning Wheel working within my webapp; http://bit.ly/89oWud However, I keep receiving an error within Mobile Safari that the variable 'blabla' cannot be found. I have implemented both of these suggested solutions: 1# Change SpinningWheelCSS 2# Change JQTouch CSS, JS files, and add JQTouch wrapper to body...

iPhone - Native App GeoLocation VS Web App GeoLocation

Here's my situation; I've built a very simple web app that looks up a users location and plots it on a Google map. Here's my code: http://pastebin.com/d3a185efd When I test it, my location is detected as being >= 500 meters from where I actually stand. BUT When I open up Google Maps or Gowalla my location is correct to within <20 me...

Dashcode code translation

Hi, a quick, probably easy question whose answer is probably "best practice" I'm following a tutorial for a custom-template mobile Safari webapp, and to change views around this code is used: function btnSave_ClickHandler(event) { var views = document.getElementById('stackLayout'); var front = document.getElementById('mainScree...

Can I trigger a CSS event in mobile safari upon iphone orientation change?

I'm trying to figure out how to change an embedded web page when the user rotates their phone from portrait to landscape mode - basically to load a view that is better suited to the wider screen format. Is this possible to do without calling a new page from the server, i.e. to drive it from within CSS/Javascript itself? Thanks! ...

Automatically Restart WebApp after a phone call on an iPhone

I have an iPhone WebApp that is installed to the home page. When a phone call comes in or an email is sent it brings up either the phone screen or the email screen. After the user finishes the phone call or email, is it possible to automatically bring up the same web application that was previously open? ...

How can I create a footer/toolbar in an iPhone web app?

I'm working on a web app and I need to get a div to stick to the bottom of the viewport. Always viewable and always on the bottom of the viewport. There's an example of what I want here: footer. Unfortunately, this doesn't work on the iPhone. I can think of some ways to do this using javascript but I would rather not. Any ideas on h...

Is there a way to get a mobile Safari WebApp to "forget" its state?

I have a nascent bridge scoring app that is meant to be stored locally on an iPod touch/iPhone (iPad? Would probably be fugly...) So far so good, got a custom icon rolling and basic JS navigation laid out, but my problem is that it retains its state when I quit the app. Is there a simple magic Apple meta tag for this? Or is it achieved ...

Do not fetch app.manifest each time

For creating an offline version of a bunch of linked web pages I use an app.manifest-file that lists all the web pages for offline caching. I would like it that the app.manifest file is not fetched every time when a user jumps from one web page to another. Most of the web pages will never be updated once the application is on the iPhone...

Google appengine authentication on iPhone web app on the home screen

I'm using Google appengine for developing an web application that is meant to be used on both the browser and iphone. I have purchased a domain name for this application, so that I have a pretty URL. I've used the User API for authentication. This works just fine on desktop browsers and iPhone Safari. The user could add the application ...

How to not cache a php file where a cachemanifest is beeing called?

Hi, i'm building a iphone app with jqtouch and i use a cachemanifest to cache all the static files (images, css, javascript) to make it load faster. However the page uses php for the dynamic content and i don't want to cache that. So i'm generating the cachemanifest with this php-script(manifest.php): <?php header('Content-Type: text/c...

iPhone apps: Webapps or native?

Hi all, I am planning to create an iPhone apps version for our online webapps. I am still new to iPhone apps development so I don't know whether to choose iPhone native or a webapps that runs on iPhone browser. The requirement is actually pretty basic. The iPhone apps need to submit data and get data from the database that is also use...

Font display in iPhone

I develop a simple mobile page; the font displayed is very samll although I set it as 33px and the screen resolution for iPhone is 320 X 480. Does anyone know why it is so small? Or the screen resolution is not 320 X 480 since it can be zoomed. Then how do I make the font to be adapted to the resolution automatically? ...