Comments on: An iPhone friendly, local storage backed, offline TODO list webapp

By: john

john — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 20:26:23 +0000

“Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript” by Jonathan Stark is probably not a bad starting point. It’s fairly brief, but will get you going. You can read it online too: http://building-iphone-apps.labs.oreilly.com/

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 18:21:10 +0000

Thanks!!! Man, I don’t think I will ever understand this stuff. Any good books you can recommend?

By: john

john — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 09:42:01 +0000

Hi Robert,

yep the code is all up on github: https://github.com/lilspikey/jTODO

cheers,

John

By: Robert

Robert — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 11:32:17 +0000

Hi,
love the example, but: I am totally new to this stuff and have no idea where to start. Unfortuanately, the is no download button for the iPhone app source. I would think that would be a real help to me to try and get into this stuff. Is there a way to get the source Luke?
This old Kraut would really appreciate that. Thanks in advance,
Robert

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By: Tac Tacelosky

Tac Tacelosky — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:28:15 +0000

Thanks! This is a nice working example of an offline webapp with local sqlite. There are a lot of snippets showing how one could set this up, but amazingly few that show an entire application.

I’d love to find a library that could handle either Gears or HTML5 manifest/sqlite storage. Maddening to have to develop different versions for local storage depending on the browser.

Anyway, great job, thanks for writing and documenting this!

Tac

By: john

john — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:14:20 +0000

Added that line and it does the job. Had to mess around with re-creating the bookmark and even had to restart iPhone to get it to work (I presume there’s some caching involved). Now though it really does look like a native app – nice!

By: Steven

Steven — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:41:51 +0000

Yes, add the meta tag apple-mobile-web-app-capable content=”yes” tag to your app. That meta tag makes the safari chrome disappear (both the location bar AND the status bar).. removing the last indication that your app is not a native iphone app. Seems like at that point, it would very difficult to tell the difference. Great work on your app btw. -Steven

By: john

john — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:04:55 +0000

Thanks for that nueh – I did not know about that meta tag. Will give it a go and see how it works…