Questions tagged [iphone-web-app]
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Prevent iPhone from zooming in on `select` in web-app
I've got this code:
Running in a full-screen web-app on iPhone.
When…

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Prevent scroll bounce for the body element, but keep it for child elements in iOS
I've been working on a mobile webapp as of late. I'm optimizing mobile-first, focusing specifically on iOS for the iPhone right now. I don't want the precise look of a native app, but I think that the feeling of being native is of absolute…

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watchPosition() vs getCurrentPosition() with 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…

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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
as specified on iPhone Dev Center but the address bar and toolbar…
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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…

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Fitting height of homescreen-webapp for iPhone 5
I have a problem with fitting the height of a webapp (homescreen).
Im using following meta-tag:
My problem is, that the screen has black bars…

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Remove form assistant from keyboard in iPhone standalone web app
Is it possible to remove the form assistant from the iPhone popup keyboard in a standalone web app? I know the general consensus is that it's not possible in Mobile Safari, but a standalone app runs in a UIWebView, and functions differently in…

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OAuth callbacks in iPhone web apps
I'm building a full-screen iPhone optimized web app. It gets launched from the homepage like a native app and behaves like a standalone app via the following directive, but it's just plain HTML/CSS/JavaScript, no PhoneGap involved.

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Detect an app on home screen of iphone
You know how its possible to add a web app to the home screen of an iPhone... well now how do i detect if my app has been added to the home screen of a user's iPhone.
And if it has been added, how do i launch the app stored on the user's home screen…

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How to disable iOS "Shake to Undo" in a webapp
I'm building a game as a webapp for the iPad. It incorporates a shake action to trigger an event for one of the screens, but, since it also has a information collection form, sometimes that shake action triggers the annoying "Shake to Undo" dialog.…

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iOS Webapp. Swipe back is not working in standalone mode
I have put the meta tags in my html header to transform my site into an fullscreen webapp. Everything is working fine, without the known swipe back gestures from safari.
Does anyone know why its not working and how to fix it?

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iOS network activity indicator keeps spinning in web app added to home screen
2nd update, March 2014: Apple closed the bug saying they don't have enough information, but my project is a big PHP application that I can't (and won't) fully send to Apple for them to reproduce this problem. If anyone has a shareable, simple, pure…

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Scrolling problems on a web page with fixed header and footer in iOS7
This will be difficult for me to explain, but I'll try:
As a start, my web page is working on mobilebrowser in iOS6.x, Android, W7 and desktop browser IE9, Safari and Chrome. The problem happens in Apple's mobile Safari browser in iOS7. I had a…

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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…

Sam
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IPhone push notfication for a webapp?
Is it possible to implement IPhone's push notification service for a
Webapp that has an icon on the "desktop"? If so how?

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