IPhone ReviewNG test

Posted by Stijn Van Vreckem on Mar 30, 2008

I don't know about you, but I had a pretty inspiring weekend. First of all, I checked out the two significant new features of EC2 - Elastic IP Addresses and Availability Zones - which help you to run reliable web sites and other applications within Amazon EC2.

Then I watched the IPhone SDK for Web developers video. I started to test the ReviewNG DRP application via Safari on the IPhone Simulator.

The application works pretty well on the IPhone, but it would be even better if it could work in full screen. Unfortunately, the full screen mode is not working in my release of the simulator.

I have added this line in the meta tag of our layout.

<meta name="apple-touch-fullscreen" content="YES">

The full screen mode is without the address bar and navigation bar so that your webapp looks like a native app. We will have to wait till June(the official release) to test this.

Another cool feature is the client side database . To avoid cross site scripting : only the javascript from the domain that created the database can use the database. It is part of HTML 5 and there is transaction support.