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I think Jobs has been repeatedly clear that iOS supports two platforms: the web, an industry standard Apple tries hard to advance to the best of its ability, an

by andreyf 16y ago

I think Jobs has been repeatedly clear that iOS supports two platforms: the web, an industry standard Apple tries hard to advance to the best of its ability, and iOS, which Apple keeps proprietary and advances to the best of their ability that way. Apple is devoting significant resources to developing both (in leu of focusing 100% of engineering on either), as an experiment, if you will. Now, if only web apps on iOS could enter into full-screen mode like native apps...

cubicle67 16y ago
Now, if only web apps on iOS could enter into full-screen mode like native apps... They can. You need to add some additional metadata to the header, and the user needs to save that url to their homescreens (homescreens? does that even make sense?), but once done the web app looks like a native one. You can even define a splash screen to display while the page loads. Edit: here's the line you need (from http://raphaelcaixeta.com/blog/2010/08/13/meta-tags-to-help-your-ios-web-app-look-like-a-native-app/ http://raphaelcaixeta.com/blog/2010/08/13/meta-tags-to-help-...) <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" />
- alanh 16y ago
  Excellent, yes. This is what Glyphboard does. Thanks for pasting the code & a link.
- masklinn 16y ago
  > homescreens? does that even make sense? It's generally called Springboard.