iCab running on WebKit nightly
Some iCab users asked me, if iCab 4 can use the latest WebKit nightly builds instead of the built-in WebKit component of Mac OS X. This is indeed possible, and thanks to an Automator Script by David...
View ArticleWebKit on the iPhone (Part 1)
If you develop an application which should display a web page or HTML file, you can use the WebKit framework, which is part of the MacOS and also of the iPhone OS. But while on the Mac, the WebKit...
View ArticleWebKit on the iPhone (Part 2)
In the first part of this tutorial you’ve learned that you can use JavaScript code to get information about the web page and to modify links which would be normally ignored by UIWebView (because they...
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URL filtering for UIWebView on the iPhone
iCab Mobile provides a filter manager which allows to filter out advertising banners and other stuff from web pages. It has a list of simple URL-based filter rules (which is even editable by the user)...
View ArticleSearch and highlight text in UIWebView
Several iPhone Apps (like my “iCab Mobile” or “NewsTap” Apps) provide a search feature which allows to search for text in the content that is currently displayed within a UIWebView. The found...
View ArticleChanging the headers for UIWebKit HTTP requests
Update As of iOS 5, the iOS does no longer use the public API internally to set the UserAgent headers for all of the NSURLRequest objects that are created within UIWebView. So the method that is...
View ArticleCustomize the contextual menu of UIWebView
When you tap and hold your finger on a link in a UIWebView object for about a second, a contextual menu will open and provides a few choices: copy the URL to the pasteboard, open the link and a button...
View ArticleChanging the range of the zoom factor for UIWebView objects
When using a UIWebView to display a web page, you have probably noticed that the maximum zoom factor is very limited. In mobile Safari you can zoom in much farther than in your own App. This blog post...
View ArticleelementFromPoint() under iOS 5
The JavaScript call elementFromPoint(x,y) can be used to find the element of a web page at a certain coordinate. If you have used this call in the past on a web page or in a native iOS App which was...
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