If you are creating a web app for the iPhone there is an easy to to hide the address bar when opening the page from a link on the users home screen. You simply need to add the following meta tag to your
head. This will also work with the iPad.
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<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" [...]
The Problem
The iPad and also the iPhone have a bit of special behavior when it comes to using the HTML5 video tag. They both have the autoplay functionality shut off. This behavior is also extended to any event which the user has not started the event chain. (AKA you can’t do the following)
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<body onLoad="document.myMovie.play()">
</body>
What it [...]
I have been working with the HTML5 video element a bit on both iPad and the Chrome browser. I’ve started to find some odd behavior around the seeked event. First a touch of background about the seeked event. According to the spec the seeked event should fire when the seeking IDL attribute changes to false. [...]
While working on a small HTML5 based project for the iPad I found some interesting things with how it handles the poster attribute and defining the video source. The following HTML works fine on Mobile Safari (iPad) and my desktop Chrome.
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<video id="vidtest" src="big_buck_bunny.mp4" poster=’poster.jpg’ controls="controls">
</video>
But moving to the following code [...]
While working in PHP I found the need to fill an array with new objects on the fly. So at first I tried the array_fill function that worked fine for values but when I tried an object I found it was the same object in every position meaning if I modified one they all changed. [...]
I was working with a CMS and found that one file was not downloading correctly people were saying that the file was being zipped up by the CMS. Well it turns out it was the issue with IE6 and a bad MIME Type. The fix is simple for pptx you need the mime type application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation [...]
I have a web page that needs to go through a bootstrap step in order to make all the correct Ajax calls. So I was simply looping through the results and making the Ajax call like the following. You will note that I needed to pass a name to the processing of the data returned [...]
Working with a fixed height and width table I found a problem where rows were expanding too much I needed each row to only grow in height enough to contain the text and not fill the rest of the table. The number of rows was dynamic but the height fixed. The hack is simple add [...]
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While working on in Silverlight I found the need to auto populate a TextBox then shift focus to that TextBox. That was simple to do with the following code.
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txtSearch.Focus();
txtSearch.Text = "sometext ";
But then there is a problem the cursor is at the start of the text box so if a user starts typing they end [...]