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Questions tagged [web-clips]

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Determine if user navigated from mobile Safari

I have an app, and I'd like to redirect the users to different pages based on where they are navigating from. If navigating from web clip, do not redirect. If navigating from mobile Safari, redirect to safari.aspx. If navigating from anywhere else,…
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How to identify user click from iphone "home screen"

Some users of my mobile site add the site to home screen in safari in iPhone (using "add to home screen"). Is there any way to know if they come from clicking the home icon, or typing the url? Or, to solve my problem, I want know how many users…
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How can I load iOS webclip links in the same window?

After loading up a Webclip with some links in it, clicking a link launches Mobile Safari instead of loading the link in the same window. Is there a way to prevent the link loading in Safari instead of the Webclip instance? I'm trying to mock up a…
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How to get iOS to properly respect the "apple-touch-icon-precomposed" link attribute for a "web app"

I have created several web apps for iOS that employ the apple-touch-icon-precomposed link attribute method for custom home screen icons without the gloss. However, I have run into an issue recently, where, after adding the home screen bookmark and…
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Is it possible to get iOS web clip functionality on Android?

With iPhone you can display different content for the same URL depending on whether the page is visited in normal Safari or via a home screen icon for that webpage. If the page is visited in Safari then you typically display the instructions for…
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Can an iPhone app generate web clips?

The safari browser lets you add an icon to the home screen as a bookmark to whatever webpage you happen to be on. I would want to do that same thing, but in an app I develop. So basically, the user would launch the app, do a bunch of stuff and…
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iPhone Configuration Utility :- to add multiple web clips in iphone

I am trying to create multiple web clips using iPhone configurator Utility.But when I try to add second webclip with different Label,URL and web clip icon it gets replaced with existing one.My question is,Is it possible to create multiple web clips…
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iOS web clip icons not working

I have the following in the header of my web app. When I try to add my app to the home page of my devise it is still using a screenshot of the app. Am I missing something?
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How to specify a url for Iphone web clip?

I can specify an icon for web clip. It's Ok. So, I would like to specify my homepage url for the web clip when the visitors even add it to their home screen via sub pages. Currently,…
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Add apple-touch-icon to my application (from image file) not working

I am working with SAP Hana Cloud trial version (SAP WEB IDE). I tried to add Home Screen feature to my application. My project structure is: http://scn.sap.com/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/621327/structure.png In index.html file I added line like…
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iOS web clip icon not showing up on local server

We've made a web app with some optimisation for iOS's Web Clip feature. Obviously I've added some icons for the homescreen, but they fail to show up when the app is accessed on our local server. When I move all relevant files to a completely…
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Turning Safari Web Clips into HTML

Safari's "Web Clip" feature is nice because you can take a section of a web page and access it dynamically from the desktop. This is especially cool when you are using it to "save" streaming videos and the like. What I want to do is embed one of…
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Apple-mobile-web-app using Web Audio API system unresponsive when app state returns from background

I have developed a simple HTML 5 web app using the Web Audio API. The page is saved as a Web Clip and the apple-mobile-web-app-capable meta tag is added to enable full-screen. Everything thing works fine in Safari, the sound plays as intended.…
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How to make an iOS web app start where it left off

I'm programming a web clip app which you can add to your home screen via Safari, and every time I open it, it reloads to the page which the web clip was saved in. How can I make the web app open where it last left off?
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Can WebClip point to anything not web based?

As I understand WebClip was created to point to a web app. However, on other hand, all it does internally is just let the system know that URL should be opened (and as example Safari handles that). My question is whether WebClip can contain any…
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