New Mobile Safari stuff in iOS5

#1

Post by franksvalli » Tue, Jun 07, 2011, 12:26 PM UTC

New Mobile Safari stuff in iOS5
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Re: New Mobile Safari stuff in iOS5

#2

Post by sant0sk1 » Tue, Jun 07, 2011, 1:19 PM UTC

I'm very disappointed that you still can't upload files in Mobile Safari. I "get" the whole no filesystem thing, but come on at least show the photo/video picker.

Little impossibilities like this make mobile web apps perpetually less useful than native apps, and that sucks.

Re: New Mobile Safari stuff in iOS5

#3

Post by arethuza » Tue, Jun 07, 2011, 1:22 PM UTC

sant0sk1 wrote: post #2

I'm very disappointed that you still can't upload files in Mobile Safari. I "get" the whole no filesystem thing, but come on at least show the photo/video picker. Little impossibilities like this make mobile web apps perpetually less useful than native apps, and that sucks.

You can upload pics from Safari using Picup: http://picupapp.com/

Re: New Mobile Safari stuff in iOS5

#4

Post by vesto » Tue, Jun 07, 2011, 1:33 PM UTC

arethuza wrote: post #3

sant0sk1 wrote: post #2

I'm very disappointed that you still can't upload files in Mobile Safari. I "get" the whole no filesystem thing, but come on at least show the photo/video picker. Little impossibilities like this make mobile web apps perpetually less useful than native apps, and that sucks.

You can upload pics from Safari using Picup: http://picupapp.com/

Yes, but remember that this requires the user to download a separate app in order to have the upload functionality in yours.

Your web application would have to be pretty damn good to get a user to go through that much effort in order to use it.

Re: New Mobile Safari stuff in iOS5

#5

Post by arethuza » Tue, Jun 07, 2011, 1:54 PM UTC

vesto wrote: post #4

arethuza wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can upload pics from Safari using Picup: http://picupapp.com/

Yes, but remember that this requires the user to download a separate app in order to have the upload functionality in yours. Your web application would have to be pretty damn good to get a user to go through that much effort in order to use it.

Just pointing out that it isn't impossible just merely extremely inconvenient to load pics through Safari.

Re: New Mobile Safari stuff in iOS5

#6

Post by swix » Tue, Jun 07, 2011, 2:53 PM UTC

If no one gets before me ill verify today if Nitro is running in WebView / Fullscreen webapps, I would also like to check if webgl is working now but can't check right now, at work.

Great news that webworkers are "working" :)

I'm sure we'll also get an update from Phoboslab and impactjs if there are any significant performance gains elsewhere for html5 graphics.

Re: New Mobile Safari stuff in iOS5

#7

Post by bergie » Tue, Jun 07, 2011, 3:16 PM UTC

arethuza wrote: post #5

vesto wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, but remember that this requires the user to download a separate app in order to have the upload functionality in yours. Your web application would have to be pretty damn good to get a user to go through that much effort in order to use it.

Just pointing out that it isn't impossible just merely extremely inconvenient to load pics through Safari.

We've been using the photo sending by email functionality for this

Re: New Mobile Safari stuff in iOS5

#8

Post by bergie » Tue, Jun 07, 2011, 3:17 PM UTC

No word of whether activating a contentEditable now opens the keyboard. That'd be a big step for lots of content-focused web apps

Re: New Mobile Safari stuff in iOS5

#9

Post by ComputerGuru » Tue, Jun 07, 2011, 3:21 PM UTC

bergie wrote: post #8

No word of whether activating a contentEditable now opens the keyboard. That'd be a big step for lots of content-focused web apps

Give me a sample URI and I'll check it for you. Or wait until I have the time to write up a naive example.

Re: New Mobile Safari stuff in iOS5

#10

Post by mmuro » Tue, Jun 07, 2011, 3:51 PM UTC

position:fixed is the most welcome addition.