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Comment on Modules for iCab Mobile by Rowan Pope

Rowan Pope — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:32:59 +0000

This is an absolutely awesome app, I love it. I hope your well on the way to an iPad version, I’ll buy it as soon as it’s out!

Comment on URL filtering for UIWebView on the iPhone by Dj

Dj — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:03:23 +0000

I am implementing an application that will use safari to browse the web. My module is to save the webpage appearing on the browser before the user quits the app. So for this I created an instance of NSURLConnection and invoked the initWithRequest method. The delegate methods are getting called properly. But when I try to fetch the cached response I am getting nil object . After observing closely , I found that -(NSCachedURLResponse *)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection willCacheResponse:(NSCachedURLResponse *)cachedResponse
method is invoked properly. But after I save the cached response storeCachedResponse method , it’s isnt getting stored in the cache.

Comment on URL filtering for UIWebView on the iPhone by Alexander

Alexander — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:21:00 +0000

@Dj
I don’t know what exactly you’re doing. I think you could have done something wrong, or maybe my solution doesn’t match to your problem.
You can send me an example project by email and I’ll check what’s going wrong.

Comment on URL filtering for UIWebView on the iPhone by Dj

Dj — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:06:03 +0000

I was trying to cache a webpage but noticed that “- (void)storeCachedResponse:(NSCachedURLResponse *)cachedResponse forRequest:(NSURLRequest *)request
” method doesn’t store the cached response. I have customized the NSURLCache the way you have mentioned but still the cached response isn’t getting stored. As the cached response isn’t getting stored while retrieving the cache I am getting data as nil. What could be a possible solution to this issue..

Comment on Modules for iCab Mobile by James McAdams

James McAdams — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:18:51 +0000

Brilliant! Thank you!

Comment on Modules for iCab Mobile by Alexander

Alexander — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:55:07 +0000

I’ve just written a few new modules for Instapaper. There’s a module available for the Instapaper mobilizer and also a module to add a bookmarks to your Instapaper account.

Just use the “Download Module” to find the new modules.

Comment on Modules for iCab Mobile by James McAdams

James McAdams — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:33:29 +0000

Coding looks straightforward but I’m incompetent – any chance we could see instapaper or read it later modules? Also, is there any chance of customising the mobilise service – I prefer instapaper to google for formatting. A couple of Twitter clients incorporate this so I imagine it should be straightforward enough…

Comment on Calling iCab Mobile from within Safari on the iPhone by Gernot

Gernot — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:54:40 +0000

Hi Alexander,
yes, the 1Password bookmarklet works with the new version of iCab Mobile – but 1Password only opens Safari.
I will send them an email and ask if they can implement iCab also.

Best wishes, Gernot.

Comment on iCab running on WebKit nightly by David

David — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:43:21 +0000

Scripts now finally updated for Snow Leopard
http://davidhall.me/running-on-webkit.html

Comment on Search and highlight text in UIWebView by Alexander

Alexander — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:33:48 +0000

My methods rely on HTML structures, so if these methods do work for doc, xsl and ppt, these documents are probably converted to HTML internally. And I assume that PDF is displayed directly (I assume that the iPhone OS directly supports PDF, just like the MacOS) and not converted to HTML and so these methods don’t work here.

I’m only guessing, because I don’t know all of the internals of the UIWebView class.

Comment on Search and highlight text in UIWebView by mitch

mitch — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:39:28 +0000

I am using a UIWebView in a document viewer. These methods work great for a variety of documents, not just html. I searched doc, xls, and ppt, documents successfully. Any idea of how to utilize these methods with pdfs or excel spreadsheets?

Comment on WebKit on the iPhone (Part 1) by Alexander

Alexander — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 23:11:38 +0000

@chris
If you load the web pages from the web, you don’t have full control over the source code, this is why changing the font size can be difficult. If you have full control over the HTML source, which means if you write the HTML code yourself, then there’s no problem anymore in changing the font size, because you can write your source in a way which has no side effects when changing certain properties afterwards. Also you can decide the default font size from the beginning.

And eBook Readers do have much more control over the HTML code, also the code itself is already optimized for the small device, without any multicolumn layouts, without tables and other stuff, which makes it so difficult to change the layout.

Comment on WebKit on the iPhone (Part 1) by chris

chris — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 13:16:11 +0000

@Alexander, but how ereaders are formatting the text.
like stanza and ereader are in app store.
what is approach when they increase or decrease the font. are they editing the CSS for that?

Comment on WebKit on the iPhone (Part 1) by Alexander

Alexander — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 10:59:08 +0000

@chris
I haven’t found a really good solution yet. I’ve had the best luck with a solution which would destroy the old layout. The big problems are text boxes in web pages whose width is based on the current font size. In these cases increasing the font size will also increase the width of the text boxes and then even if the text is now larger in theory, nothing has changed in reality on the iPhone, because there’s still the same amount of text in one line. Most of the time the readability is even worse than before. So the only option seems to be to allow that all boxes have a variable width. And this will usually destroy the layout.

Comment on WebKit on the iPhone (Part 1) by chris

chris — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 09:24:40 +0000

Hi,

have you find any solution?
….
I’m still evaluating this as well to find a reliable way to increase the font size of a web page.

I am also trying on that but no success till.