[FX.php List] Quick tip for iPhone programmers

Wed Jul 25 09:03:51 MDT 2007

That's the amazing thing about it; I wrote some quick query pages for  
some in-house databases in an evening, adjusted them for the iPhone,  
and they were working immediately. I really do believe there will be  
a lot of work for web app programmers such as ourselves, and that  
part of the task for us will be to expose our clients to the  
possibilities.

Needless to say, WIFI is much better than using the EDGE network, but  
until 3G comes along I deal with it very well; for me, I seem to have  
a WIFI network almost everywhere that I go, which has been great.

Bob

On Jul 25, 2007, at 8:17 AM, Dale Bengston wrote:

> 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
>> bob at longtermsolutions.com
>> 615-333-6858
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>>
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>>
>>
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