Comments on: Modules for iCab Mobile (Updated 2011/03/26)

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 03:26:30 +0000

@Alexander
Oh it’s that easy. how stupid of me not to have noticed that before! Thank you for your help!

By: Alexander

Alexander — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:50:30 +0000

@Alex
Please check the settings of iCab Mobile. Here you can configure almost all of the gestures. So if you often accidentally activate the two-finger tap gesture, you can easily deactivate this gesture.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:42:10 +0000

Hallo Alexander. Very nice browser! There is one thing, though, that annoys me. Since I zoom a lot and very often, the module list keeps popping up all the time. The both commands are overlapped by two-fingers tap. So I wonder if there is a way to disable the two-fingers tap command for the module list?

By: davidS

davidS — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:51:05 +0000

@Alexander
Thank you very much for you quick and precious answer!!!

It would be great in future if you could in “kiosk mode” also allow to enter different websites (for example for intenetcoffees). AND maybe a implementation of a web protection like the of K9.

i would pay even more for you browser

By: Alexander

Alexander — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:20:18 +0000

@davidS
Check out the “Kiosk Mode” setting in the iCab Mobile settings within the “Settings” App from the home screen. Here you’ll find this feature already as part of the Kiosk mode. The Kiosk mode is a special “protected” mode for usecases like yours. In Kiosk mode there’re no in-App settings, no download manager, no bookmarks, no URL field etc. Just the web page is accessible, so users can only do what you wants them to do (which is what the web page allows the users to do). The Kiosk setting includes a white list so you can limit the web sites the suers are allowed to visit. And it also has an idle timer. You set it to a certain time (like 5 minutes) and when the device was not touched for 5 minutes, it will
automatically load the kiosk start page you’ve defined.

By: davidS

davidS — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 23:38:38 +0000

hi there, im going to use some ipads for a event where people JUST can surf the web with it (they are attached in a frame so the users can not press the homebutton, steal etc). the idea behind it is to let the guest surf the events website but also allow to use other websites. the thing is… after a guest uses it and a other guest gets to the ipad, he will see the last page. i would like that the new guest gets started with the events website.

is it possible to make a funktion that says… after 5min of idle iCab, restart the url given in the setting (startsite)

sorry for my bad english

By: Alexander

Alexander — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 10:57:04 +0000

@Dusan Hlavaty
Just follow the link “iCab Mobile Modules and Apple” at the top of the blog post and you can read why the “Module Downloads” module was removed. I could only remove this module and the ability in iCab Mobile to download and install modules from the internet, or Apple would have removed the App from the AppStore. It doesn’t help that we all know that Apple’s decision doesn’t make any sense, but Apple makes the rules. So as a developer you can either follow the rules or you’re out.

All I could do was to include the modules in iCab Mobile, which I’ve done (as far I’ve got the permission to do so and there were no legal reasons not to include certain modules).

By: Dusan Hlavaty

Dusan Hlavaty — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 08:19:41 +0000

I cannot find “Module Downloads” module nowhere in iCab 4.8.4. Why you just simply wont publis some URL (with all modules) to be available for everyone. Why is such a simple task so complicated???!!!

By: Alexander

Alexander — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 12:34:17 +0000

@Juan,
currently you can’t change the content-type for POST requests. Probably I’ll add this later.

By: Juan

Juan — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 18:22:49 +0000

Hi,

for postRequest, how do i set content type? I need to set it to json for my plugin to work.

Thanks!!

By: Alfred

Alfred — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 22:38:31 +0000

Video download module is now available. Thanks

By: Alexander

Alexander — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 20:54:27 +0000

@Alfred
Please check again. The module should be available using the “Module Downloads” module now.

By: Alfred

Alfred — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 18:54:25 +0000

I purchased iCab mobile for my ipad v4.2.1, thinking it had a video download module, but I cannot find one under the download module tab. Can you help?

By: Alexander

Alexander — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 17:59:11 +0000

@keage
Yes, the size can be a big issue because most of the iOS devices do not have much main memory. So when dealing with fonts that are several megabytes large, the device can easily run out of free memory, especially when the fonts are even larger because of the base64 encoding and additional memory is required to decode them.

You may try to load the fonts from the internet. Put the font on a web server and use a direct link to the font within the module to load it from the web. This way the iOS would be able to use it’s default caching mechanisms which probably work better with low memory conditions. But of course this has also some issues, like the user has to wait for the font to be downloaded. But I think that there’s not much you can do otherwise.

By: keage

keage — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 05:28:05 +0000

I’m trying to create a font-changing module by editing @font-face property of the webpage.

First, I tried base64 encoding to embed a fontfile in the module.
It works well while the volume of a fontfile is not so large(~1MB),
but when I embedded a font that the volume is large(ex. Chinese/Japanese fonts),
the module doesn’t work well because it causes crashing iCab.

So I want to access the downloaded manager from the module and use a fontfile in there,
but I haven’t got any idea to access there from the module….That’s why I questioned before.

Have you got any alternative idea to realise this function?