Though several sites claim Mac OS X properly supporting WebDAV thus making any connection to a WebDAV server a snap you might encounter some trouble on “snapping”. Windows clients properly connect to your Apache 2.2 based installation of mod_dav. Using Finder connection fails due to invalid server address. Using Terminal for invoking command mount_webdav everything’s working, though. While Pages on iPad properly connects to your server, but GoodReader fails to do so, you are stuck in same situation as me. Here is the solution … Continue reading »
Jan 17
Fixing WebDAV support in MacOS X and on iPad
Announcements, Maintenance, Online, Software
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Nov 03
The DOM event click is frequently used to have custom action on user clicking selected elements of a web page. This event is available on iPad and iPhone as well, though it’s reacting less instantly as on a desktop computer. This is due to double-tap detection globally implemented in Safari for supporting convenient element zoom feature. After click has been detected as a sequence of touchdown and touchup events Safari/WebKit is waiting some milliseconds for another tap before deciding to pass single touch as a click event. This behaviour is disturbing when you want to support fast interaction, such as in providing numeric on-page pad for entering secret pin. Continue reading »
May 28
Yet another blog post on iPad
Hardware
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So this is just another post on first impressions after testing new Apple iPad. Though there are a lot of posts on the net already, I consider quite most of them trying to be as critical as possible and so find issues not existing actually. Today iPad sale has started in Germany and as a software developer I didn’t hesitate any moment to place my pre-order on Apple Store a few days before. I won’t repeat to tell you things you. might have read all over the net for weeks and months now. Though I’d like to falsify some facts others have promoted recently. Continue reading »
Feb 01
The iPhone/iPad SDK 3.2 Beta is available for download by registered members of iPhone Developer Program now. While many pages on the net already promote technical specs on iPad there is little information on new software features being introduced in “iPhone OS 3.2″ such as PDF Generation and Custom Document Type Registration. Though the name might imply support on iPhone devices the docs clearly state that “iPhone OS 3.2″ isn’t supporting iPhone and iPod touch. Welcome on second class iPhone … Continue reading »
