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

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…

By: nueh

nueh — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:53:16 +0000

Oops, lost the code:

By: nueh

nueh — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:51:59 +0000

Did you know about apple-mobile-web-app-capable? It sets whether a web application runs in full-screen mode.

http://devworld.apple.com/safari/library/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariHTMLRef/Articles/MetaTags.html