Touch-screen based smartphone designed and released by Apple Inc.
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Favicon, icon, shortcut icon, apple-touch-icon: Are there any others?
I know of 2 basic kinds of default web icons for websites:
Favicon: place an .ico formatted file at the root of your site named favicon.ico and most desktop browsers will find it and display it in ...
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Is the m subdomain automatically supported / redirected by mobile devices, if not how should I redirect?
I'm trying to set up a mobile version of a site, and I'm wondering if I can just set up a m subdomain and put the mobile site in there, or if I need to set up some kind of redirect to make phones ...
8
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2answers
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What are the basic things to do in order to make a web site iPhone-friendly or more mobile-accessible?
What are the basic things to do in order to make a web site iPhone-friendly or more mobile-accessible in general?
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iPad and iPhone browser rotating images on site?
I am experiencing an odd occurance on a site I'm building right now where images are displayed 90 degrees different from how they are supposed to, but while maintaining the normal dimensions of the ...
7
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2answers
535 views
How do you direct iPhone/Android browser to m.example.com?
I have some special coding that only works for HTML5 browsers (simple geolocation stuff). I want to redirect iPhone and Android users to the m.example.com version of my website. How is the best way ...
6
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1answer
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Keep Iphone browser from turning numbers into links
I'm writing a very simple page that is supposed to be viewed on mobile devices. While viewing it in the iphone simulator I noticed that the iphone browser automatically turns any number string into a ...
4
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1answer
118 views
Migrating a small web application for smartphones by creating narrow HTML pages?
I have a small web site offering a couple of functionalities, but it was not designed to operate with smartphones then. I don't have experience with smartphone application development (and this might ...
4
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1answer
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How is the scrolling in mobile browsers (touch) different from desktop browsers?
I know scrolling works differently on mobile devices since they don't fire the scroll event right away.
What else is different? Where can I learn more about it? I want to know if it has any other ...
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2answers
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Which mobile device is appropriate as a utility tool for a web master?
Basically, I'm looking for a device to use on the road and I would prefer to not have to sit down for the majority of the tasks (which rules out netbooks, in my mind). I'm also hoping to spend less ...
2
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6answers
113 views
Testing websites on devices such as iPhones?
I'm aware of many sites that you can use for cross-browser testing and I was wondering if anyone knows any free sites that you can use to test sites on an iPhone?
2
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1answer
759 views
Creating an iPhone compatible website with iWeb
I'm starting a simple, static site with iWeb (latest version) and was wondering if there are any built-in or available resources for making the site compatible with mobile devices?
2
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1answer
703 views
Mobile site link to youtube video, close app after video finished?
I'm linking to Youtube videos on my mobile site.
On iPhone, when you click on a youtube link, it begins playing using the Youtube App
When the video is finished, the Youtube App is still open--you ...
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3answers
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Getting “cannot verify server identity” on iPhone and iPad for Go Daddy SSL
Whenever people navigate to a particular site of ours on an iPhone or iPad they are getting a "cannot verify server identity" message.
Our certificate was issued by Go Daddy.
I ran this checker as ...
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3answers
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Mobile phone app or optimised mobile site?
I run a motor sport news website and currently deciding if I should go down the route of paying someone to develop an app for a phone, in which case I would need something compatible for iPhone, ...
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1answer
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Which browser contains “com.google.GooglePlus” in the agent string?
I noticed the following agent user strings hitting my website and wondered which browser is this user string for?
Mozilla/5.0 (iPad2; iPad; U; CPU OS 5_1_1 like Mac OS X; en_GB) ...
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1answer
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Is there a non-Safari Apple Web browser for the Ipad / iPhone / iPod?
I know Safari is the default Web browser on the current iPad / iPhone / iPod.
But was there a non-Safari official Apple made Web browser for these platforms in the past?
If so what are they and when ...
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vote
2answers
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HTML5 article tag application for the iPad/iPhone
I've used article tags on websites. My understanding and practice is to use the article tag for publication content. I always use HTML/HTML5 tags as their intended purposes and not at will.
Recently, ...
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0answers
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Javascript autotab function not working on iPad or iPhone [closed]
I have this this piece of html code:
<form name="postcode" method="post" onsubmit="return OnSubmitForm();">
<input class="postcode" maxlength="1" size="1" name="c" onKeyup="autotab(this, ...
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0answers
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creating Ipad application faster [closed]
im new to Ipad application development. but an experienced Web application developer in asp.net.
I want to develop finest applications using ipad ..but want to learn from scratch.
Please suggest me ...
1
vote
1answer
152 views
Is there a single video compression settings set that will allow the same file be used for Flash .flv and iPhone H.264 playback?
Since flv supports H.264 playback and iPhone/iPad also supports h.264 playback are there any compression settings that can be used to support playback on both platforms without needing to store/serve ...
0
votes
4answers
199 views
Is it wrong to tell mobile users to view a site on their computer?
I am creating a web application that doesn't work correctly on mobile. I don't want to make it work on mobile because I would rather mobile users have a fully integrated experience and not have to use ...
0
votes
2answers
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How do you create a mobile app that basically allows you to…?
I was wondering what the simplest and cheapest way to create a reliable mobile app (android or iphone) would be for the following situations. We are about to pick one of the following two situations:
...
0
votes
3answers
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iPod / iPhone CSS Website Template w/ Height Width Dimensions
You can see here a (very) simplified version of my website: http://ple100.free.fr/foo
And on iPhone, it looks like this: http://ple100.free.fr/foo/iphone.png
As you can see, we don't see the right ...
0
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2answers
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rewrite rule if iphone?
just need one url on my site to check if its a mobile device and then rerite the url accordingly.
want to rewrite;
/play-reel/miranda-bowen/playpeaches-and-cream
to
...
0
votes
1answer
211 views
iPhone site optimization: Custom viewport size
I've got a site that should max out a 575px on the iphone and wanted to know what the best method is for defaulting the viewport to this size. Currently I am using this meta tag:
<meta ...
0
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1answer
46 views
Safari Mobile suggested tags [closed]
I have been searching the internet and cannot find a good resource of information about what to use exactly to make a website work well in Safari Mobile. I looked in Apple's Safari Mobile dev docs, ...
0
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0answers
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Which iPhone ad API has produced the highest revenue for you? [closed]
This isn't a technical question, but more of a request for advice and empirical/anecdotal data.
I'm nearly done writing a free app for iPhone, and I'm at the stage where I'm going to put ads into the ...
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votes
1answer
47 views
Need to find hitchhiking websites/apps [closed]
I would like to fnd some hitchhiking websites or iPhone apps where I can find somebody who is driving and I can go with him the same day before making reservations too far in advance. Is there some ...
