Programmatically opening a new tab/window on Mobile Safari

On iOS devices using mobile safari your can easily navigate the user to another website or page using ordinary links and the location object. However, if you want to programmatically open a new tab or window then this is not easily done. Sure, if the method of navigation is a link that a user clicks […]

Mobile safari will dump memory & crash at about 10MB

While designing an application heavy on image usage I ran into issues with Mobile Safari simply crashing and dumping all memory. At first, I did not understand what caused this behavior since I was doing many different things in my application. This seemed to come out of nowhere. I would mostly get these bug reports […]

Using iframes with mobile safari

If you wish to use iframes on a website or application that should be accessible by users on mobile safari you should be aware that you cannot constrain the width and height of the iframe on your side. If the content that is loaded within the iframe is higher or wider than what you intended, […]