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Hi Wayne
On one of the pages in my app I have a link to a webpage, where people can make some bookings.
Can I make that webpage appear in “normal iphone size” within the app, or am I forced out of the app to the external webpage? That is how it is now and there off course is now back-button as there are in my app.
Tried to use “iframe” but was advised against it. What can/should I do?
Best Regards
Kim
The main issue about navigating to a remote page is the lack of a back-button when the user launches the webapp from the homescreen. There is a known bug with iframes that make them virtually useless on iOS devices. The options available are:
1) modify the remote webpage to include a back button option,
– for example, detect the iOS device browser’s user-agent and make the button visible or request the page with additional parameters such as http://foo.com?backbutton=true2) open remote webpage in a separate browser page
Wayne – in the above answer, you list an option:
open remote webpage in a separate browser page
How can I open a new safari page outside of the app?
wayne,
for 1)
for that button that’s embedded in a page – will javascript:back()
return the user to the webapp.how does this sound:
i call my server – my server calls the target webpage.
i create a frame with my button at the top w/ back button
(javascript:back())
and the bottom panel contains the target webpage.with that work?
2)
i assume that you open the new location with a new target
attribute value. but to get back to the app – the user would have to
open all the windows and find/select the webapp.>i create a frame with my button at the top w/ back button (javascript:back()) and the bottom panel contains the target webpage.
My frame, I assume you mean an inline frame <iframe>? My expectation is that your UI will suffer from other problems such as failure to scroll.
>2) i assume that you open the new location with a new target
attribute value. but to get back to the app – the user would have to
open all the windows and find/select the webapp.Correct, see this forum thread http://www.genuitec.com/support-mobione/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=2065&p=4171
