Jun 2010
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Dealing with the bottom browser bar on mobile Safari

, – If you use iScroll or any web app that takes advantage of touch events you'll sooner or later stumble in an annoying bug: when you swipe over the bottom browser bar the touchend event is not fired and the application freezes. Here I'm trying to explain why this happens and how to fix it.

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Apr 2009
12
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38

Rotating wheel for your iPhone webapps

, , – In my last post I was suggesting to stop cloning the default Apple UI for web applications and start creating custom controls. This time I want to put my words in practice and present you with a rotating wheel select control, 150 lines of code all included (HTML+CSS+JS).

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Apr 2009
5
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Don’t go native UI on your mobile web app

, – In most of my mobile webkit examples I tried to resemble as close as possible the native iPhone user interface. I decided to use a familiar UI just to show off the power of the little mobile browser but I highly discourage using Apple's graphics for your web applications.

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