I did a lot of research about this topic and didn't yet find a satisfying answer:
How can I make a scrollable list (iPhone SDK Dashboard List) inside some other html content? If I create a list inside a html body and I try to scroll the whole page is scrolled. I know there is this "double finger" scrolling, but that's not what i want.
Is there some way to prevent the whole iPhone Safari Webpage from scrolling and instead letting other lists inside scroll? Like redirecting java script events?
Background: the idea is to mimic a real native application behavior with tabs at the bottom and a selection list in the body.
Appreciate any hints!
Thanks,
Patrick
there is yet another possibility, with slightly nicer scrolling simulation:
http://cubiq.org/scrolling-div-on-iphone-ipod-touch/5
Ok, after consulting some friends, I found the answer to this question:
http://doctyper.com/archives/200808/fixed-positioning-on-mobile-safari/
have fun.
http://cubiq.org/scrolling-div-on-iphone-ipod-touch/5
this is a really great script!! It's smaller than the doctyper version and easier to work with since it doesn't have so many elements being repositioned. It also allows contained elements to be touched easier by the user. and even cooler, when you touch into a text field and the close the type panel the divs being positioned by this script snap right back into place (where as the doctyper version just has them floating out of place after the type screen retracts).
A very nice script.
A new scrolling library to keep an eye on: Scrollability.
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I just found out about this really cool plugin (new for me, old for some of you maybe) and it works like a charm upon implementation, but only in regular computer browsers. When I try it on my android phone, the css3 animation of the dropdown moves really really choppy, just like its dropping frames. How can I fix this problem?
Here is the plugin I am reffering to:
http://responsive-nav.com/
They seem to have done a really nice job with the plugin, I would say the largest cause of the drop of frame rate may be because you are repainting the entire screen. If you would like, roll your own side navigation but make it go over the existing web page rather than move all the elements on the screen.
EXAMPLES OF SIMPLER MOBILE NAV without repainting
http://fringewebdevelopment.com/
http://www.sony.com/index.shtml
As a further step you can also get rid of the javascript and just do plain CSS and see how that works for you, an example of using checkboxes and labels to control the side nav can be found on my site (just inspect the code) - www.aktof.ca . Hope this helps!
I'm using iScroll 4 for my rather heavy iPhone web/Phonegap app and trying to find a way to switch between iScrolls scrolling functionality and standard "native" webview scrolling, basically on click. Why I want this is described below.
My app has several different subpages all in one file. Some subpages have input fields, some don't. As we all know, iScroll + input fields = you're out of luck.
I've wrapped iScrolls wrapper div (and all its functionality) around the one sub page where scrolling is crucial, and where there are no input fields. The other sections, I've simply placed outside this div, which gives these no scrolling functionality at all. I've of course tried wrapping all inside the wrapper and enabling/disabling iScroll (shown below) but that didn't work me at all:
myScroll.disable()
myScroll.enable()
By placing some sub pages outside the main scrolling area / iScroll div, I've disabled both iScrolls and the standard webview scrolling (the latter - which i guess iScroll does) which leaves me with no scrolling at all.
I was, however, able to get some vertical movability (is that even a word?) by adding the lines below. Unfortunately, that leaves me with only basic scrolling functionality, hence no more scrolling than your finger manages to swipe vertically on the screen. Terrible way to browse through large quantities of content
document.removeEventListener('touchmove', preventDefault, false);
document.removeEventListener('touchmove', preventDefault, true);
Therefore, I'm searching for a way to enable standard webview scrolling on the sub pages placed outside of iScroll's wrapper div. I've tried different approaches such as the ones mentioned above but with no success. Sorry for not providing you guys with any hard code or demos to test out for yourselves, it's simply too much code and it would be presented so out of its context it wouldn't be of any use to anybody.
So, is there a way n javascript to do this, switching between iScroll scrolling functionality and standard "native" webview scrolling? I would rather not rebuild the entire DOM so a solution like the one described above would be preferable.
I never got this to work so I assume it cannot (easily) be done. I ended up including four different iscroll wrappers into my app which works but not what I was looking for. I'll make this as the right answer for the time being.
I have a web page with a fixed-size layout, it's fine in its current implementation even if it's far from "state of art", but a little too high for a mobile device screen.
Since the "header" part doesn't really matter to anyone, everyone wants to immediately pan / scroll down a little when viewing the page on a mobile device (or, broadly speaking, on a viewport shorter than the page fixed height).
Is there some HTML or JS magic I can do to tell the browser to start displaying the page already-scrolled-down X pixels?
You can try something like links and anchors.
http://www.yourdomain.com/main.html#bottom
If you're using jQuery, you could try scrollTo. You'll need to work out where on the page your target is, though...
Anchors is one solution, but the way I find really nice is to use http://archive.plugins.jquery.com/project/LocalScroll. So use can detect User Agent in Javascript and scroll down in proper place using this plugin.
Cheers!
Not sure anchors would work if you are trying to implement this on the homepage.
If the header is completely pointless in mobile browser this you could use html to detect that a mobile browser is being used then from this load CSS with the header hidden, or load it at the bottom perhaps. If this sounds like a viable option I can post examples.
I'm developing a product to be used by a number of customers alongside our Web application.
Quick background:
These customers have incorporated into their pages a widget that we've developed.
The widget's content can be modified by using our application.
The idea behind this product is a bookmarklet that we supply, which will "highlight" our widget on their page, turning it into a clickable link that leads to an administration panel in our app.
The "highlight" effect actually involves some z-index tricks; we create a semi-transparent "backdrop" <div> just a few ticks below the maximum-supported z-index to gray out the page; then, we adjust the z-index of our widget to sit on top of that translucent backdrop. The visual effect should look about like this:
http://skitch.com/troywarr/dtexp/example-good
However, in Safari, as well as Firefox under certain conditions, there seem to be some sort of rendering artifacts that prevent this from looking as intended:
http://skitch.com/troywarr/dteqx/example-bad
As you can tell from the screenshot, a couple of elements (our logo image and the <iframe> that holds an advertisement) are still "bright," as intended. But, the rest of the widget is still shaded-out.
I've been poking around with Firebug for quite a while to try to get at the source of the problem, but I haven't had any revelations. I'm hoping that someone has experienced a similar issue, or recognizes the "visual signature" of this kind of problem. Or, if you're simply adept at JavaScript/jQuery and/or Firebug, I could really use your help trying to figure out where this approach is falling short.
I created a test bookmarklet as a live example. To see it, please:
Open Firefox (the version under development currently only works there reliably).
Go to this page and drag the link there to your Bookmarks Bar: Example Bookmarklet
Navigate to: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/07/30/sports/s170637D86.DTL
Click the bookmarklet while on that page, and you should see what I'm referring to.
Thanks very much in advance for any help! This has me baffled.
I was about to give up on this, but I think I found the problem. You have a hell of a lot of DOM elements going on here, but luckily that isn't the issue causing this problem.
The iframe inside DIV#onespot_nextclick needs a background color of #FFF.
Simple!
I have a page using <ul> lists for navigation (Javascript changes the styling to display or not on mouseover).
This is working fine for me except in IE6 and IE7 when I have a Google Map on the page.
In this case the drop-down simply does not work. However, the page continues to work in FireFox 2.
I have done a little bit of research and discovered that this may be an example of the IE Select Box Bug, but I am not sure as the Google Map appears to be using a <div>, not an <iframe>.
Has anyone else encountered a problem similar to this, and if so do they have any recommendations on the best way to overcome this problem?
I don't know if this will fix your problem but you may want to try this solution at ccsplay.co.uk which fixes the problem of menus appearing underneath drop-down lists. I don't know if it will work for sure, but it's worth a shot.
I fixed a similar issue with drop-downs not appearing over flash movies in IE6/IE7/IE8 using this jQuery:
$(function () {
$("#primary-nav").appendTo("#footer");
});
Where primary-nav is the ID of the drop-down container element and footer is the ID of the last element on the page. I then used absolute positioning to relocate the dropdowns back to the top where they belong.
The reason this works is because IE respects source ordering more than it does the z-index. It still wasn't able to display over top of a Windows Media Player plugin though.
I believe that might happen because of an Active-X thingy IE 6+ uses to parse CSS.
Over time I had to adapt my work to include some IE hacks on my CSS in order for it to be compatible with several browsers.
I would first try to make a menu without Javascript, using pure CSS and including the hacks I mentioned. It would likely fix your problem. You don't actually need Javascript to change styles on mouseover and stuff like that.
If you want to check out what CSS hacking is about: click here
If you want to check out some pure CSS menu examples: click here
Hope this helps!
According to this google maps thread, you are correct - an IFrame is inserted by the google code.
You'll need to use the solution which Dan mentioned,
you may want to try this solution at ccsplay.co.uk which fixes the problem of menus appearing underneath drop-down lists
Alternatively, see Internet Explorer HACK/Fix For Select Box Showing through DIV.
Basically the solution is, using JavaScript, to place your css menu in an IFrame in IE6.
An alternative solution is to use JavaScript to hide the Google Map when the CSS menu is pulled down, or to replace the Google Map with a static map (maybe even a Google static map) when the CSS menu is pulled down.
I don't have an immediate answer for you, but the tools mentioned in this answer (particularly the IE DOM Inspector) may help.