[Building Sakai] Request for review: Hide browser controls in PDA portal on Safari

[Keli Sato Amann]

Since I've only bookmarked our pda portal, didn't even notice it was missing. Not supposed to use back button and haven't felt like I was missing anything. If you're accepting opinions from non-developers, +1.

Keli Amann
User Experience Specialist
Academic Computing Services, Stanford University

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nate Angell" <nangell at rsmart.com>
To: "Steve Swinsburg" <steve.swinsburg at gmail.com>
Cc: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 8:57:17 AM
Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Request for review: Hide browser controls in	PDA portal on Safari

+1 then ;)

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 4:05 AM, Steve Swinsburg
<steve.swinsburg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Nate,
>
> I believe it will also affect the iPad version of Safari and will make it look more like a native application. This behaviour only happens if you bookmark the URL and then launch it like an app, if you just browse to it it will have no effect.
>
> cheers,
> Steve
>
>
>
> On 14/07/2010, at 5:05 PM, Nate Angell wrote:
>
>> Couldn't tell from the jira if the change would affect all versions of
>> Safari, or only Safari on iPhone. For example, would the change affect
>> Safari on the iPad? What would that look like?
>>
>> - Nate
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:41 PM, Steve Swinsburg
>> <steve.swinsburg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I am seeking community input in regards to adding the following feature to the PDA portal:
>>> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-18777
>>>
>>> Essentially, in Safari on iPhone OS if a user bookmarks the /portal/pda view of Sakai (which adds an app icon to the Home Screen), then launches it, the browser controls are hidden giving more of a native application look. Screenshot attached to the JIRA.
>>>
>>> This is pretty minor (two lines of HTML) and shouldn't affect any other browser since it is detected by Safari only, and other browsers ignore it.
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>> Steve
>>>
>>>
>>>
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