Iphone. CSS3. Cross-platform. Creating mobile Web applications with HTML 5, Part 3: Make mobile Web applications work offline with HTML 5. Here’s what we’ve learned about doing UI for mobile web apps with WebKit. Lately, we’ve been exploring ways to offer web apps that perform like native apps on mobile devices.
For this short sprint we targeted mobile WebKit browsers—especially the default browsers on iOS and Android—because of their widespread use and excellent support for HTML5 and CSS3. Here are a few things we’ve learned along the way: Browser differences Targeting WebKit browsers specifically lets us make liberal use of -webkit extensions to CSS3 (as seen in the spinner animation we shared recently). Incompatibilities between the current browsers on iOS and Android devices has not been an issue so far. Cloud Four: Expert Web and Mobile design, development and strategy.