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A mobile version of Apple’s Safari web browser.

On January 9, 2007 Steve Jobs announced the mobile version of the (Apple) Safari browser.

Mobile Safari is based on the same WebKit rendering engine as the desktop version, but with a modified feature set better suited for a mobile device.

The iPhone and the iPod Touch both run a device-specific version of Safari that has a few peculiarities, ranging from rendering and media capabilities (i.e., no Flash) to JavaScript and DOM quirks.

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Is Safari on iOS 6 caching $.ajax results?

Since the upgrade to iOS 6, we are seeing Safari's web view take the liberty of caching $.ajax calls. This is in the context of a PhoneGap application so it is using the Safari WebView. Our $.ajax calls are POST methods and we have cache set to…
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Disable Auto Zoom in Input "Text" tag - Safari on iPhone

I made an HTML page that has an tag with type="text". When I click on it using Safari on iPhone, the page becomes larger (auto zoom). Does anybody know how to disable this?
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How do you disable viewport zooming on Mobile Safari?

I've tried all three of these to no avail:
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Turn off iPhone/Safari input element rounding

My website renders well on the iPhone/Safari browser, with one exception: My text input fields have a weird rounded style which doesn't look good at all with the rest of my website. Is there a way to instruct Safari (via CSS or metadata) not to…
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How to disable phone number linking in Mobile Safari?

Safari on iPhone automatically creates links for strings of digits that appear to the telephone numbers. I am writing a web page containing an IP address, and Safari is turning that into a phone number link. Is it possible to disable this behavior…
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UIWebView open links in Safari

I have a very simple UIWebView with content from my application bundle. I would like any links in the web view to open in Safari instead of in the web view. Is this possible?
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CSS submit button weird rendering on iPad/iPhone

I noticed that if I style my buttons with CSS using radius, colors and borders, they look good but in the iphone/ipad/ipod they look terrible...shouldn't be the same rendering as in Safari Desktop??
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How to launch Safari and open URL from iOS app

On the settings page, I want to include three links to My app support site YouTube app tutorial My primary site (ie: linked to a 'Created by Dale Dietrich' label.) I've searched this site and the web and my documentation and I've found nothing…
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How do I remove the blue styling of telephone numbers on iPhone/iOS?

Is there a way to remove the default blue hyperlink colour from a telephone number when viewed on an iPhone? Like a specific Mobile Safari tag or CSS to add? I only have this in place for the number:

Call us on +44 (0)20…

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iOS 8 removed "minimal-ui" viewport property, are there other "soft fullscreen" solutions?

(This is a multi-part question, I will try my best to summarise the scenario.) We are currently building a responsive web app (news reader) that allow users to swipe between tabbed content, as well as scroll vertically inside each tabbed content. A…
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How can I recognize touch events using jQuery in Safari for iPad? Is it possible?

Is it possible to recognize touch events on the iPad's Safari browser using jQuery? I used mouseOver and mouseOut events in a web application. Are there any similar events for the iPad's Safari browser since there are no events like mouseOut and…
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disable viewport zooming iOS 10+ safari?

I've update my iPhone 6 plus to iOS 10 beta version and just found that in mobile safari, you can zoom any webpages by double tapping or pinching IGNORE the user-scalable=no code in the meta tag. I don't know whether it's a bug or feature. If it's…
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iPad Safari scrolling causes HTML elements to disappear and reappear with a delay

I'm currently developing a web app using html5 and jQuery for iPad Safari. I'm running into a problem wherein large scroll areas cause the elements that are offscreen to appear after a delay when I scroll down to them. What I mean by that is, if I…
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How can I check if an app is installed from a web-page on an iPhone

I want to create a web-page, a page that will redirect an iPhone to the App Store if the iPhone does not have the application installed, but if the iPhone has the app installed I want it to open the application. I have already implemented a custom…
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Remove textarea inner shadow on Mobile Safari (iPhone)

By default, it seems Mobile Safari adds the top inner shadow to all input fields, including textarea. Is there a way to remove it? It's especially ugly when you have a white background.
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