I recently developed a website that fetches mixed http/https content. Due to this, I always get the address bar displayed on top (It doesn't auto-hide like in other websites). Here's what I'm talking about:
This is the link to the website.
The content is fetched from various sources, hence filtering non-https content is not possible. And since the website is meant for reading, a non-full-screen display is painful for the reader. So, is there a way to force the auto-hide behavior?
PS: The website uses Twitter Bootstrap, if it helps.
PPS: I don't want to use the full-screen API, it'll be too heavy for this.
Check this has everything you need
http://www.html5rocks.com/en/mobile/fullscreen/
The Chrome team has recently implemented a feature that tells the browser to launch the page fullscreen when the user has added it to the home screen. It is similar to the iOS Safari model.
<meta name="mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">
window.scrollTo(0,1);
this will help you but this javascript is may not work in all browsers
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I'm creating a webpage and I want create a version for smartphones.
I found information about this, but using a media-query with max-widht.
The problem is when a user open the page in a smartphone with full HD screen, it's showing all content like in notebook with 15.6"
How can i solve this?
Thanks
Take a look at HTML Responsive Web Design at w3schools: https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_responsive.asp
What you need is to make viewport responsive by adding meta viewport tag to your pages head:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
I agree with #StaXter. But IF you can, I'd implement a feature both back end and front end solution. From what I've read online, the back end solution may fail sometimes, and as every web developer knows, JS sometimes fails too, for whatever reason although JS failing is becoming less common in my personal opinion.
But if you can't then there's 0 doubt, just use the solution that StaXter said.
Only other thing I can add to that where you're just using the front end is to make sure you use meta tags: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Mobile/Viewport_meta_tag
There are even meta tags for when someone has disabled JS, you can redirect them to a page where there's no JS.
When clicking a website link from within the Facebook iOS app, the page loads fine (within the in-app browser). But then when you scroll down and then back up, the top is cut off. This is a problem for website with a nav bar at the top, like amazon.com. Is there a workaround for this? One that does not involve the user having to disable the in-app browser. This is aweful when you realize you've spent money sending people to a website they cannot use.
Update: This seems to be an issue with a slightly older version of the Facebook App for iOS. In the newer version of the FB App, this is not a problem.
Even still, I'd like to know if anyone has experienced this and if so, is there an HTML, javascript or jquery solution to the problem. I know I can detect the FB browser, maybe even the version of the in-app browser. But still, what to do then.
I think I am going to try using frames. I guess I could pad the top and bottom.enter image description here
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Hide the iPhone status bar in a web application?
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I'm building a single page JavaScript/PHP web app that currently hides the url bar and stays in full screen successfully with the following code:
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">
What I need to do now is hide the actual status bar. I've tried the following meta tags to no avail:
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" content="default">
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" content="black">
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" content="black-translucent">
Is there some other meta tag or JavaScript/PHP code I could use to hide the status bar completely? I noticed that the Belly Card iPad mini web app (www.bellycard.com) does this successfully and I'm not sure how. Any insight is genuinely appreciated.
Cheers!
There is no direct method for this (see: similar question) but... this link seems promising:
Everything Hybrid Web Apps Need to Know About the Status Bar in iOS7
The summary of the link is as below:
Key Comments (at link):
When viewing sites in Safari you do not have the ability to customize
the status bar in any way. Previous versions of iOS offered the
ability to view sites in full screen mode, but that was removed in
iOS7, see
http://www.mobilexweb.com/blog/safari-ios7-html5-problems-apis-review.
Key Notes (in link):
StatusBar Cordova Plugin
With iOS7 Apple introduced some native Objective C APIs to control the
status bar. Because of Cordova, we have the ability to bridge these
native APIs directly into JavaScript APIs.
Luckily for us #shazron has already done this with the StatusBar plugin.
After adding the plugin to your application, you are given a StatusBar
object with a number of methods to manipulate the status bar in
JavaScript directly.
...
You can hide the status bar using StatusBar.hide(), or even change its
background color with StatusBar.backgroundColorByName() or
StatusBar.backgroundColorByHexString().
For example, the following sets the status bar to green.
<script>
document.addEventListener('deviceready', function() {
StatusBar.overlaysWebView(false);
StatusBar.backgroundColorByName('green');
}, false);
</script>
...
Outstanding Issues
While the web has come up with workarounds for most of the iOS7 status
bar issues, there are still a few that remain unresolved.
The status bar still overlays content displayed in a cordova InAppBrowser.
There is no known workaround, but a fix is slated for cordova 3.2.
The StatusBar plugin does not work in apps that lock the device into landscape mode.
Key Critic Comment (at link):
These solutions seem to be working only for Phonegap applications, for
us who don't use this and simply wrap our apps in a webview it seems
the only easy solution is to set the webview's top property to 20
instead of zero and that takes care of the issue at hand.
I've visited a few sites on my iPhone/iPad which have prompted me to install the native app the first time I've visited the site. Is there a standard script somewhere that people use for this or should I just create my own? This must have been thousands of times before but despite endless googling I can't find a 'stock' script I can use. Ideally it should use cookies so the user doesn't get prompted more than once a month or so.
Apple have actually got a built in way of doing this relatively unobtrusively, which adds a "Smart App Banner" at the top of the browser if the app isn't already installed:
To add a Smart App Banner to your website, include the following meta tag in the head of each page where you'd like the banner to appear:
<meta name="apple-itunes-app" content="app-id=myAppStoreID">
For more options, please see the full documentation on Apple's site:
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/PromotingAppswithAppBanners/PromotingAppswithAppBanners.html
This adds a nice looking banner to the top of the page, which can be dismissed by clicking a close button. Unlike a popup (alert box), it doesn't obscure the page too much or stall it from loading and goes directly to the app store page for your app when clicked. I think this is probably the best solution for most cases.
As it only involves adding one meta tag, it's also easier to implement than any other JavaScript based solution and there's no risk of it appearing on non iOS devices.
Caveat: Only works in Safari. Not Chrome etc.
I'll assume that they're checking if the device is iOS via the HTTP_USER_AGENT
<?php
$iPod = stripos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],"iPod");
$iPhone = stripos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],"iPhone");
$iPad = stripos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],"iPad");
$droid = stripos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],"Android");
if ($iPod || $iPhone || $iPad){
// Display Prompt for iOS
} else if($droid){
// Display Prompt for Android
}
I am developing a web-based database that needs to be opened through firefox web browser(because of some css3 elements). I want the page to open automatically in full screen mode. I dont want the user of the database to have access to the firefox menu items
Can't be done if you just have control of the webpage. Controls in the webpage cannot cause changes in the browser instance itself.
It would be a security issue if that were allowed. You could look into writing a Firefox extension to do that, as they have more access to the browser instance itself.
You shouldn't look at trying to hide the firefox menu controls. That seems like a flaw in your problem-solving approach.
You will want to look at Fullscreen APIs of the browser. If you accept a small request/info to the user in the application it can be done quite easily. You just can't force the user into Fullscreen mode against his will. This is good (for security reasons).
http://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/01/using-the-fullscreen-api-in-web-browsers/