[FX.php List] Quick tip for iPhone programmers

Wed Jul 25 07:17:08 MDT 2007

Neat trick! Thanks, Bob.

Regarding the iPhone, Madison, Wisconsin, finally got its Apple Store  
two Saturdays ago. (Yeah, I know, small town. And no, it's not housed  
in an igloo!)

One of my clients went to the Apple Store and used the display iPhone  
to access the sales web site I developed for them. Everything worked,  
including all the ajax, except for one hinky borrowed-code drop-down/ 
type-ahead I never liked and need to replace anyway.

This site was up and running for a year or two before there even was  
an iPhone. I'm very pleased, but I have to say it's absolutely a  
testament to the full-featured browser on the iPhone rather than  
anything I did.

Would that all new platforms were so easy to support with de facto code.

Dale

On Jul 25, 2007, at 1:15 AM, Bob Patin wrote:

> If you're planning to do an iPhone web app with FX.php, I've found  
> a great tip that will help to make your app look more like an  
> application and less like a web page.
>
> On the iPhone, you can easily hide the top toolbar (the address bar  
> on a standard browser) by applying a tiny bit of Javascript:
>
> Write a bit of JS that adjusts the window's scroll setting, and  
> call it on the window load:
>
>
> <body onload="hideBar();">
>
> <script type="application/x-javascript">
> 	function hideBar(){
>     	window.scrollTo(0, 1);
> 	}
> </script>
>
>
> ...
> </body>
>
>
> Hope this helps someone,
>
> Bob Patin
> Longterm Solutions
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