Category Archives: Mobile

iPad (and iPhone) debugging

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

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iPad Safari image limit workaround

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

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iPad and iPhone html5 video autoplay

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

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HTML 5 Video on the iPad

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

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iPad Development

Over the past week I’ve been doing some iPad development. While working I’ve noticed a few things. It’s really nice to only worry about one browser, especially a new one like Safari 4. It feels weird to code something, see it … Continue reading

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