Didn’t know this one: Adding a <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-title" content="CUSTOM SHORT NAME"> meta tag to your HTML allows one to set a custom home screen bookmark title (whereas iOS would normally take the page title) (via S&N) Related: Home screen icons and startup screens →
Tag Archives: ios
Face Detection on OS X and iOS
Recently I realized that Apple added support for face detection in OS X Lion and iOS 5. Apple’s face detection is exposed through Core Image, the super-useful image manipulation library. Two classes are important: CIDetector and CIFeature (along with its subclass, CIFaceFeature). With a little experimenting one night, I was able to get a sample …
Paper’s Color Mixer
Paper by 53 (recommended app) now sports an innovative color mixer / color picker. Turns out it was quite a mathematical struggle to implement it too. We learned in elementary school that yellow and blue when mixed turn green. However when you plug in the values to this equation, you get a different result: Gray! …
Contre Jour
Hauntingly beautiful, pleasantly challenging and strangely addicting – Contre Jour is now on the web! Swing, shoot, drop or fling Petit through 30 free challenging levels right in your browser. Very nice iOS game (been playing it for quite some time now), ported to the web by to celebrate the upcomig Internet Explorer 10 team …
Impaktor— The Drum Synthesizer
Ajax is “broken” in iOS6
In iOS6, POST requests over XHR seem to be cached quite aggressively. Luckily, it’s fixable: After a bit of investigation, turns out that Safari on iOS6 will cache POSTs that have either no Cache-Control headers or even Cache-Control: max-age=0. The only way I’ve found of preventing this caching from happening at a global level rather …
iPhone 5 and iOS 6 for Web Developers
The Amazing iOS6 Maps
Native iOS YouTube app
Google has released an all-new YouTube app for the iPhone and iPod touch, which it said it was working on last month when Apple revealed it was removing it from iOS 6. The new app is completely native, and in our brief time with it we found it to be fast and responsive. New YouTube …
Opening links in Chrome for iOS
To actually open a URL in Chrome, the URI scheme provided in the URL must be changed from http or https to the Google Chrome equivalent. Clever way to bypassing the fact that you cannot choose your browser on iOS (Sidenote: I wonder what would happen if Microsoft ever were to try this). Code example …