f you’re already building web apps, you might wonder why you should bother to build an iPhone native app. The short answer is that you might not need to, but you should still optimize the app for iPhones.
Native-looking chrome
Set these in the head:
// set a custom icon for when a user bookmarks the app to [...]
The cool browsers support radius corners, but Safari supports CSS transformations that allow developers to scale, skew, and rotate objects on the page like we’re used to doing in PostScript. And better than that, we can animate those transformations over time — all without any JavaScript.
Fire up Safari or Chrome and mouse over the examples here. [...]
Shiira Project, an Apple WebKit-based browser with some interesting features.
Sadly, it also brings page transitions to the Mac. Let’s hope these don’t become the new <blink> .
tags: alternate browser, blink, browser, browser development, mac, webkit
