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user1094000
user1094000

Reputation: 207

Webapp for iphone switches from home screen to Safari when url parameters are used

I've developed a web app for the iPhone, and I have it bookmarked and added to my iPhone's home screen. I'm noticing a problem with it, though: it works as intended until I navigate to a page within the app that has a query string and parameters - for example, www.mywebapp.com/page02.html?param1=value&param2=value2 . When I go to a page with such a URL, iOS switches me from the embedded version of Safari to the main Safari app - it takes me out of my app. I don't know why this is happening.

What causes this and what can I do about it?

Upvotes: 10

Views: 4390

Answers (4)

Simon Epskamp
Simon Epskamp

Reputation: 9966

Many thanks to @BjornKaiser who provided the solution, here is a simple jQuery script that will handle this for you for all links.

Add this to the head section of your master ASP.Net page. Make sure you have jquery included:

<head>
    <!-- Your reference to your jQuery library -->
    <script type="text/javascript" src="/js/jquery-1.4.2.min.js"></script>

    <script type="text/javascript">
        $(function() {
          $('a').click(function() {
            document.location = $(this).attr('href');
            return false;
          });
        });
    </script>
</head>

Upvotes: 8

user1094000
user1094000

Reputation: 207

I found the best solution: using client-side data storage. You can use JavaScript to store variables information into the variables localStorage and sessionStorage.

Look at these links: O'Reilly client-side data storage tutorial and Apple key-value client-side data storage tutorial for web apps

Upvotes: -1

Bj&#246;rn Kaiser
Bj&#246;rn Kaiser

Reputation: 9912

That's the way Apple designed it. If you need a multi-view Web App you need to implement the page switching logic in JavaScript. Everything else will cause the problem you described -> jumping to Safari.

Upvotes: 5

Brighid McDonnell
Brighid McDonnell

Reputation: 4343

I'm not sure what causes this, but this question about UIWebView issues has a solution for how to make some links open in the UIWebView page and some open in Mobile Safari, so I bet you could generalize from that to a solution to your problem.

Upvotes: 0

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