Check this article out: iPad HTTP Debugging with Charles This approach is extremely useful and has saved me a lot of time. Also, the same tutorial works for the iPhone too. Once you have Charles set up to work with your … Continue reading
I hit a mobile Safari limitation recently when building an AJAX-y site on the iPad. If you load a ton of images eventually mobile Safari cuts you off and will display a [?] instead of the image. After doing some … Continue reading
This post is deprecated since this technique doesn’t work anymore! But here’s a blog post by Matthew Congrove that get’s it working. I tested his technique with iOS4 and it looks good. I previously wrote a post mentioning how you … Continue reading
Typekit now supports SVG fonts. This is good news if you want to use their services for an iPad site (since SVG is the only format mobile Safari supports). They mention there are still some bugs to work out, but … Continue reading
Jason Grigsby posted a cool article about a CSS-only solution to updating styles based on iPad orientation: http://www.cloudfour.com/ipad-orientation-css/ In my project I used JavaScript to detect the “orientationchange” event. Then I test if Math.abs(window.orientation) == 90… then I know you’re in … Continue reading
While developing an HTML 5 video player for the iPad I ran into a few inconvenient quirks. Here’s a rundown of the issues I came across. There’s no auto-play. If you try to play the HTML5 video player purely in … Continue reading
