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Maximiliano Firtman
mobilexweb.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2010
Maximiliano Firtman is a mobile web specialist who writes about HTML5 support, browser changes, and testing in iOS Safari and Android.
What HN saysHN links it for mobile browser reviews, such as Safari on iOS 7 and Android browser problems, which he compares to IE.
31HN people shared it
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Most-shared posts
- 1Safari on iOS 7 and HTML5: problems, changes and new APIs4 people · 14 points · first shared 2013 · 2 comments on HN
- 2List of mobile and tablet emulators for mobile web design & development testing4 people · 6 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 3IPhone 5 and iOS 6 for HTML5 developers3 people · 7 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 4Safari on iOS 4.2: Accelerometer, WebSockets, SVG, AJAX2 & better HTML5 support2 people · 95 points · first shared 2010 · 35 comments on HN
- 5Android 4.4 KitKat, the browser and the Chrome WebView2 people · 3 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 6UI Guidelines for mobile and tablet web app design2 people · 3 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 7Is Apple trying to hinder PhoneGap and other HTML5 frameworks with iOS 4.3?2 people · 2 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 8IOS 4.3 Nitro JS engine disabled for full screen apps and uiwebview1 people · 88 points · first shared 2011 · 43 comments on HN
- 9No user agent detection for the iPad Mini1 people · 70 points · first shared 2012 · 64 comments on HN
- 10BlackBerry 10: the first class HTML5 mobile platform1 people · 5 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 11A review of the Google Glass web browser1 people · 2 points · first shared 2013 · 1 comments on HN
- 12IOS7 Webkit Platform Change Details1 people · 2 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 13iOS 8 and iPhone 6 for web developers and designers1 people · 2 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 14HTML5 and new features in Safari for iOS 5 beta 11 people · 2 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 15HTML5 support in iOS 51 people · 2 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
felixthehat · 2012-10-04
It's pretty amazing from Safari to plugged in iPhone in iOS6 using the new remote debugging.
I have to mention coda2 & diet coda airpreview for iPad specific live debugging too, and Adobe's new edge inspect works well too (I've been using all three today for a responsive iOS site)
http://www.mobilexweb.com/blog/iphone-5-ios-6-html5-developers (see last point)
http://teamsoell.com/andy/dietcoda
http://html.adobe.com/edge/inspect/
lukifer · 2014-12-01
I haven't tried it myself yet, but modern Android and Chrome do seem to be trending this direction: http://www.mobilexweb.com/blog/home-screen-web-apps-android-chrome-31
Also, the fact that the underlying Chrome engine for WebViews can now update independently of the Android OS bodes well for the viability of HTML5 apps: http://developer.telerik.com/featured/android-5-0s-auto-updating-webvi…
hiphopyo · 2014-03-02
The Android browser is the new IE:
http://www.mobilexweb.com/blog/android-browser-eternal-dying
posabsolute · 2013-12-04
It absolutely is in android 4.2. After that it depends on the android version.
My app have perfect smooth transitions in the chrome browser. yet in the phonegap webview animations are slower & I have rendering bugs I never saw in chrome.
Can't find direct sources right now, but it's fixed in android 4.4, you get chrome
http://www.mobilexweb.com/blog/android-4-4-kitkat-browser-chrome-webvi…
JohnTHaller · 2013-09-21
Right, but iOS 7.0.1 is just fixing the critical bugs that should have been caught before release. It'll take more like a point version to fix all the bugs in Mobile Safari: http://www.mobilexweb.com/blog/safari-ios7-html5-problems-apis-review
It's not like iOS users can install an alternate browser, either.
weiran · 2013-03-06
> Apple iOS now has the same situation and you will notice Apple less and less happy to help applications run in a web browser and will continue to update Safari iOS less.
Simply not true. Apple has always been supportive of web apps as an alternative to native apps. With iOS 6 Apple added a range of features including an indispensable remote debugger: http://www.mobilexweb.com/blog/iphone-5-ios-6-html5-developers
cma · 2011-08-16
When you run a safari app that way Apple disables the fast javascript engine so that it can't compete with real apps:
http://www.mobilexweb.com/blog/apple-phonegap-html5-nitro
mryall · 2011-04-06
That's a cool idea. Accelerometer support for JS was added to iOS 4.2 [1], so it should be possible to modify the CSS transformations based on the DeviceOrientation [2].
[1] http://www.mobilexweb.com/blog/safari-ios-accelerometer-websockets-htm…
[2] http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source-orientation.html