Mobilesafari Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

iPhone OS 3.0 brings the speed for JavaScript

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Mar 27th, 2009)

Ars is reporting the 3.0 speed improvements to Mobile Safari's JavaScript engine range from 3x to 16x -- a blessed boon to web developers everywhere. No one seems to know if Mobile Safari will be sporting Nitro or SquirrelFish or what, but whatever it is, it'll be faster. If you check out the ...

Third-party apps enhance web browsing for iPhone, iPod touch

by Dave Caolo (Jan 14th, 2009)

Earlier this week, there was a sudden influx of web browsing applications in the App Store. Mac Rumors points out that some of them, most notably Edge Browser [App Store link], have very old release dates even though they only showed up in the store recently (Edge Browser's release date is listed as ...

iPhone 101: Add mobile websites to home screen

by Todd Ritter (Dec 19th, 2008)

Many websites and services offer great mobile versions without being packaged in an App Store application. If you want to be able to quickly access these sites from your home screen, follow these steps: Launch Safari on your iPhone Browse to a desired mobile site (most sites will automatically ...

Mobile Safari search via toolbar points to clearer results

by Dan Fellini (Dec 17th, 2008)

Google quietly fixed a problem yesterday that bugged at least a few iPhone users -- the results page it returned when searching through the toolbar in Mobile Safari. In a pre-Tuesday world, Google would return its standard, not-iPhone-formatted results page. Why? I honestly don't know, but ...

Apple also releases iPhone OS for iPod touch 2.2

by Robert Palmer (Nov 21st, 2008)

Apple also released a firmware update for iPod touch, bringing it in line with most version 2.2 updates for iPhone released a little while ago. It doesn't appear, however, that iPod touch users get the enhancements to the Maps app that iPhone users do. (Thanks, Guillermo!) The update contains ...

In Pictures: Street View, Safari for iPhone 2.2

by Robert Palmer (Oct 29th, 2008)

Following up on our report yesterday, a new tipster sent us screenshots of the Maps and Safari applications, highlighting changes on the way in iPhone firmware 2.2. Apple looks like they're maximizing the income they make from offering a Google search option by cramming a search box in next to the ...

Flash on its way for the iPhone (again)?

by Robert Palmer (Oct 1st, 2008)

Stop me if you've heard this one before: Adobe has confirmed that it's developing a version of Flash for the iPhone, and it's "a certainty" that it will be included in MobileSafari, according to Paul Boutin of Valleywag. Color me skeptical. Paul Betlem (this story is replete with Pauls, it appears) ...

British ad watchdogs nix iPhone "whole internet" claim

by Michael Rose (Aug 27th, 2008)

What is the "whole internet," anyway? Is it a place you can go, or is it really just an idea? Can you put it in your pants? Apparently not, if the UK's Advertising Standards Authority's point of view is to be taken as gospel. Complaints to the oversight agency by British consumers who were ...

CSS trick mimics sideways-flicking behavior in MobileSafari

by Robert Palmer (Aug 13th, 2008)

Ajaxian has posted a ridiculously simple way to enable web apps to mimic the iPhone's side-to-side flicking behavior using custom CSS supported by MobileSafari. If you're creating a web app specifically for iPhone and iPod touch users, you can get a similar feel to a native application with ...

Freeway 5.2 available with new MobileSafari support

by Robert Palmer (Aug 5th, 2008)

Softpress Systems has released Freeway 5.2, which includes new tools for building web pages for iPhone and iPod touch. Freeway is WYSIWYG website creation software that features a traditional, page-layout approach and omits the need to write any code (unless, you know, you really want to handcraft ...

Keep your iPhone from losing its cookies

by Brett Terpstra (Jun 25th, 2008)

I've been getting more and more frustrated with the fact that every time I load up Google Reader on my iPhone, I have to log in again. I tried it with and without my 1Password bookmarklet, checked my javascript and cookie settings, all to no avail. And it's not just Reader, everywhere I turn, I'm ...

iPhone on the Road: a substitute for paper boarding passes

by Erica Sadun (Apr 22nd, 2008)

Some things sound really cool -- until you actually have to step up and do them in real time. TUAW reader Gerald Buckley's story about traveling with his iPhone strikes me as belonging to this class. When he approached the American Airlines counter to use his iPhone as a boarding pass, the coolness ...

iPhone 101: Clearing cookies from Mobile Safari

by Erica Sadun (Apr 10th, 2008)

This morning, I Farked my way over to this story about British Tea Cakes. The tea cakes, which appear to be nothing more than British mallomars, have been re-categorized from biscuits to cake. Far be it from me to dispute the accumulated wisdom of the EU high courts, but from this American vantage ...

iPhone-optimized versions of LinkedIn, TalkShoe now up

by Michael Rose (Feb 25th, 2008)

We don't post about every website that comes up with an iPhone/iPod touch-optimized version -- if we did, we wouldn't have time for eating or sleeping -- but every now and then a couple of sites newly built for Mobile Safari rise above the pack. Today's launches for everyone's favorite "internet in ...

Tabulate adds Safari "tabs" to iPhone and iPod touch

by Erica Sadun (Dec 6th, 2007)

Now here's a clever trick. Inventive Labs Gadgets has designed a Safari bookmarklet that adds "tabs" to your iPhone browsing experience. Just drag their bookmarklet into your Safari bookmarks bar, then sync your iPhone or iPod touch. (Make sure you've selected Info > Web browser > Sync Safari ...