Skip to Content »

iRoss.net » iPhone Web Apps (Fullscreen? No.)

 iPhone Web Apps (Fullscreen? No.)

  • July 12th, 2008
  • 12:53 am

O2MMSv2

Well the iPhone 3G is here, as is version 2.0 of the iPhone firmware in the hands of the masses.

At the moment my popular O2MMS application is still a web-app with no immediate plans to bring it to the app store until it can offer something that the web app currently cant (sending MMS for instance!)

However, I was looking forward to improving the web application with a number of features that Apple have touted as being great for web developers in the new iPhone - namely fullscreen mode (which allows the app to run without the safari navigation and address bar - making it feel far more like a native app) and client-side storage (which theoretically would allow the app to store your MMS messages so they could be viewed without a network connection)

Unfortunately, Apple have not included this functionality in the currently shipping version of iPhone OS 2.0 :(

Really annoying that Apple have promoted the way of making fullscreen apps, then not actually put it in the firmware!!
<meta name="apple-touch-fullscreen"
content="YES (but it might as well say no for now)" />

1 Person had this to say...

Gravatar

[...] - bookmarked by 2 members originally found by kpcotton on 2008-08-02 iPhone Web Apps (Fullscreen? No.) http://www.iross.net/blog/2008/07/12/iphone-web-apps-fullscreen-no/ - bookmarked by 4 members [...]

Want your say?

* Required fields. Your e-mail address will not be published on this site

You can use the following XHTML tags:
<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

Your gravatar will be used if available.
If you don't have one - go get one - they're free!