John Gruber has found a javascript library for iPhone webApps, from nobody other than Apple itself. This interesting library, called PastryKit, seems to have been pretty much undiscovered since google does not have much on it. In likes of others, Apple’s javascript library provides support for that app native-feel. (That is the main objective anyway; some look & feel emulators are pretty “good”, while others get stuck in the past).
Ok, so how do we use it, or get our hands on it?
Visit http://help.apple.com/iphone/3/mobile/ from your iPhone or iPod Touch. This is the official Apple guide using PastryKit.
Now with this page in regular Safari (on your Mac/PC), open the Develop Menu (if it’s not there, enable it in Preference|Advanced). Choose User Agent > Mobile Safari 3.x . And now you can see it in your Browser like an iPhone would. From Develop Menu, Web Inspector will let you view the script.
They are kind of hard to read because of their Compression.
Gruber looked at the source anyway:
PastryKit accomplishes all three of the aforementioned things — hiding the MobileSafari address bar, providing fixed-position toolbars, and providing scrolling with momentum — by disabling regular scrolling and setting up its own view hierarchy and implementing its own scrolling.
The question of native iPhone apps on the web was a very hot discussion topic last month after PPK whipped up a storm on the never ending question of web-apps replacing iPhone apps. The interesting point here is Apple’s stance. They launched the iPhone with web plattform intended to be the platform for 3rd party apps, then switched over to native apps and have not done very much to facilitate native-style web apps since then. Is a change coming? As Gruber puts it:
The $64,000 question, though, is whether PastryKit is something Apple intends (or that a team within Apple hopes) to ship publicly. It seems like a lot of effort to build a framework this rich just for this iPhone User Guide, so I’m hopeful the answer is yes. Perhaps something integrated with the next major release of Dashcode? And, perhaps with integrated UI layout tools, along the lines of Interface Builder?
UPDATE: Added full uncompressed Source to the Downloads
UPDATE Its available now DOWNLOAD GOOGLE CHROME In Tech report posted on Nov 29th 2009, TechCrunch points to a Twitter entry from Mike Pinkerton (Chrome for Mac team) stating that there were only 8 bugs/errors remaining to be fixed before the Macintosh beta of Chrome is ready for its launch in the next month.
“8 remaining M4 Mac beta blockers! Go team! #chrome”
This means that there are only 8 things standing in the way of Chrome for Mac going beta. “M4″ stands for “milestone 4,” which is how they phrase “version 4,” which the Mac beta build of Chrome will be (the current dev channel version is 4.0.249.12, for example).
Speculation on the eight bugs noted by Pinkerton centers on this list, which is already down to four outstanding issues.
In a follow-up article, TechCrunch looks at the features for Chrome that will not be included in the initial beta release and have been pushed out to the next beta version in order to allow Google to meet its goal of releasing the initial beta before the end of the year.
- Bookmark Manager
- App Mode (allows Chrome to run Web apps in their own simplified windows)
- Task Manager
- Gears (offline support for Web apps; apparently being scrapped entirely in favor of HTML5)
- Bookmark syncing
- Multi-touch gestures
- 64-bit support
- Full support for extensions
- Full screen mode (possibly)
Developer builds of Chrome for Mac have been available for several months, but the move to a beta version suggests that users can expect to see a fairly stable browser with a number of significant features included. Work will continue on Chrome with additional Developer Preview releases occurring on a regular basis. Refined versions will then periodically be released as new additions to Chrome’s Beta channel. Releases will eventually make their way to Chrome’s “Stable” channel, which will offer “rock solid” performance without the inclusion of features still under development and testing.
So i have been browsing around, and all the sudden i came across a piece of code, using that cookie code, you are able to see a new version of google, its some kind of redesign or draft. Nothing fancy, nothing special, but check it out anyway, one feature defiantly like is the visible sidebar and options.
How to: When you paste the following into the address bar of your browser when on google.com and hit return, you should find yourself as new participant of Google’s latest and more all-encompassing prototype test – the one with a new logo, buttons, and always-visible left-hand pane in results. Please note I needed to sign out first for this to work.
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John Gruber has found a javascript library for iPhone webApps, from nobody other than Apple itself. This interesting library, called PastryKit, seems to have been pretty much undiscovered since google does not have much on it. In likes of others, Apple’s javascript library provides support for that app native-feel. (That is the main objective anyway; some look & feel emulators are pretty “good”, while others get stuck in the past).
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