I was kind of hoping this wouldn't require much coding. It seems a little bizarre that one can build a web browser off the shelf but giving it a hompage is much more complicated!
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Showing posts with label browser. Show all posts
Sunday, February 17, 2013
How to load web content and set homepage on simple iOS browser app
Hi,
I'm not much of a developer but what I want to achieve shouldn;t really require much development as I understand it.
My ultimate goal is to use configurator to restrict an iPad to a single app which I will build. This app is basically nothing more than a web viewer. It doesn't even need back and forward buttons. What I would like it to do is load a site that is cached locally on the iPad.
My questions then are:
How do I put the web folder in with the rest of the app?
How do I set the cached site as the homepage?
I'm using an up to date copy of Xcode on Mountain Lion. The app need only run on an iPad & iPad Mini.
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Force app iframe links to open new browser window?
We're building a simple app that uses iframes to pull in external images and text to display in specific regions of the app's pages. The text displayed is an HTML list of links -- each link the name of a legislator -- that lead to that person's official biography. The client wants the following behavior: When the app user clicks a name/hyperlink, the iPad browser should take over and display the bio. When done reading the bio, the user can click the browser's close-window symbol at top right, then they will be back where they started in the app.
For some reason, these links insist on opening within the iframe, regardless of whether or not we use the target="_blank" method. I tried Googling for this as a known behavior, but found nothing. Tips?
Re: Force app iframe links to open new browser window?
SOLUTION:
For anyone who comes across this thread. When using iframes inside an app, and wanting a hyperlink to open an entirely new window in a browser, here is the syntax:
http://www.companyname.com/">This creates a new window
Notice it's merely a vanilla-flavor hyperlink with popup: inserted before the http!
Re: Force app iframe links to open new browser window?
SOLUTION:
For anyone who comes across this thread. When using iframes inside an app, and wanting a hyperlink to open an entirely new window in a browser, here is the syntax:
http://www.companyname.com/">This creates a new window
Notice it's merely a vanilla-flavor hyperlink with popup: inserted before the http!
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