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The death of native iPhone apps with one line of code

• wmeredith 16y ago
  Title is link bait. They're talking about the HTML code you can put in your header to kill Safari GUI elements.
  • jaxn 16y ago
    I was thinking about this just the other day. I was wondering why Google doesn't remove the browser chrome from their apps. I have a spreadsheet that I saved to my iPad and look at daily. It doesn't need browser chrome. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that you almost have to have the browser chrome. If your app has any links outside of your app, there would be no way to get back. This isn't a problem in native apps because external webpages are opened (typically) in modal windows or an external browser.
    • ebiester 16y ago
      So, if you go outside the app (any new URL without the meta tag), then the browser chrome returns. It doesn't seem like a problem to me.
• bradleyland 16y ago
  Lack of browser chrome does not a native app killer make.
• stcredzero 16y ago
  Hyperbole