Full-Screen iPhone Web Apps Now Supported

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Posted October 3, 2008 at 1:43pm by iClarified

Apple's latest iPhone firmware has the ability to launch Web Apps in full-screen mode without the Safari wrapper, according to an AppleInsider report.

Clancy, an AppleInsider reader who brought the matter to our attention, believes the undocumented feature arrived as part of the most recent iPhone Software 2.1 update. He notes that the capability is only present in Web applications specifically authored to include the full-screen code.

Once the application is loaded in full-screen, it behaves just like a native app. You can test this out using a demo app Clancy created here

Developers might want to consider this when authoring web applications for the iPhone.

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Anne Jan - October 3, 2008 at 1:54pm

It is nog possible to download the package from http://webapp.net.free.fr/ in the sidebar on the right... Who know maybe another link to the package? Thank you in forward.

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