Two very interesting/cool things I've found when testing the new meta-
tags that I thought I would share.
1) the apple-mobile-web-app-capable meta tag can be added via a
javascript bookmarklet to a page, and safari will save it as a
fullscreen webapp. Hence one can enable a fullscreen homepage
bookmark for a website that does not have this meta tag set on the
server. (The black-translucent value can be set on the other tag, but
it is overriden when the page loads with the default "white")
2) webapps that are fullscreen enabled can run concurrently with the
modal quicktime plug-in running in the background from standard mobile
safari. This is very cool because it means that you can start
listening to a podcast or other web audio in regular non-fullscreen
safari, the user can switch over to one of the homescreen bookmarked
fullscreen webapps to browse the web while listening in the
background. Of course this doesn't work real well over edge which is
probably one of the reasons we have a modal quicktime plugin. (a
corollary to this is that the quicktime plugin running from a
fullscreen webapp stops playing as soon as the webapp is minimized--
this actually leads me to believe that the fullscreen webapps are
running in a separate mobile safari application developed using the
iPhone SDK which doesn't allow background processes.)
On Sep 30, 8:04 am, Pierre Bussière <
pierrebussi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, I did it. In the head section of my html page :
> <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" />
> <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" content="black-
> translucent" />
>
> Tested on an iPhone with firmware 2.1 : it works just fine.
>
> Those are the only two things that are needed, aren't they ? Or does
> it need these lines too ? They were already in my app :
> <meta name="viewport" content="minimum-scale=1.0, width=device-
> width, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=no">
> <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="Images/HomeScreenIcon.png">
>
> Le 30 sept. 08 à 14:21, Kris Ziel a écrit :
>
>
>
> > I have tried getting this work wonk on all sites, but I still can't
> > figure out how to get it working. I ad the icon to my homescreen, and
> > then I have reset the phone, and when it boots back up, clicking the
> > icon still loads it normally.
>
> > On Sep 29, 2008, at 1:20 PM, Michael Stearne wrote:
>
> >> Works for me although the iLounge didn't work. Looks good.
>
> >> Michael
>
> >>> You can test the demo right now onhttp://
webapp.net.free.fr/Demo/