Archived here for my own sake from the PhoneGap Google Group.

- (BOOL)webView:(UIWebView *)theWebView shouldStartLoadWithRequest: (NSURLRequest *)request navigationType: (UIWebViewNavigationType)navigationType { NSURL *url = [request URL];

if (![[url scheme] hasPrefix:@"http"] ||
    [[url scheme] isEqualToString:@"gap"] || 
    [url isFileURL] )
{ 
    return [super webView:theWebView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:request 
        navigationType:navigationType]; 
}
else
{ 
    ChildBrowserViewController* childBrowser = [[ChildBrowserViewController alloc] 
                                                initWithScale:FALSE]; 
    [super.viewController presentModalViewController:childBrowser animated:YES ]; 
    [childBrowser loadURL:[url description]]; 
    [childBrowser release]; 
    return NO; 
}

}

I spent the weekend updating this site to HTML5, CSS3 and Disqus in an effort to refresh things and learn more about the new technologies for work. I haven’t made any effort to test for IE compatibility yet, and I don’t know when I will.

I created this theme in 2008 so it needed a fresh coat of paint and the hope is that with this update I can move forward with a couple ideas I’ve had for a long time now. No pressure though.

I also updated my sidebar to support WordPress widgets and marked up my contact page with the hCard microformat.

some of the tools I used

• Twitter Tools
• flickrRSS
• HTML5 Boilerplate
• Disqus

Critique my code and design in the comments.

John Gruber writes,

Seriously, this is the real deal — full-screen H.264 playback with no Flash, no browser plugins, full iPhone OS support, and sane CPU usage, better in every single regard than any video player ever made with Flash.

Have a look for yourself.

What I experienced is nothing like Gruber describes. I saw my browser lock up and my CPU usage spike and stay spiked while the video played. I sent it to Matthew and he experienced the same performance issues.

I look forward to better implementations and support from browsers. Better performance, real full screen, sharable implementations.

Download the code & example files

ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable @type is not defined.

After ramming my head against a wall for around 30 minutes I asked Duncan if he ever saw such a thing. After all, other searches on the same XML were working perfectly. After some thought he remembered having a similar issue. Turns out that every node you are searching needs to have that attribute, in my case every node needed the “type” attribute.

This is a little cheat sheet that I added to our wiki as well.

svn merge

These are command line processes.

Merge a branch back to the trunk

• From the branch, svn log –stop-on-copy, this returns the revision number where the branch began (XXXX)
• From trunk, svn update which will return the last revision number (YYYY)
• From trunk, svn merge -r XXXX:YYYY path/to/branch where XXXX is the branch’s revision and YYYY is the latest revision
• Last but not least svn commit the changes back into trunk with a nice message

Merge from trunk to a branch

• From the branch, svn log –stop-on-copy, this returns the revision number where the branch began (XXXX)
• From trunk, svn update which will return the last revision number (YYYY)
• From the branch, svn merge -r XXXX:YYYY path/to/trunk where XXXX is the branch’s revision and YYYY is the latest revision
• svn commit

For both of these processes I have had more success going directory to directory, example merge the web directory and the src directory separately. Also be sure to svn update both the branch and the trunk to be sure you have the latest source code.

1172: Definition fl.video:VideoEvent could not be found.

In order to access a number of the “fl” packages you need to have a component in your library. In this case I added the FLVPlayback component and all was well. Apparently you can use flash.utils.getDefinitionByName as well.

So if I want a PlayPauseButton to work with SoundPlayer I need to roll my own. If I want a BufferingBar to work, I need to roll my own.

Hopefully in the next version of Flash they will resolve this and give us components that would accept an interface for a target.

After some searching around looking for why this was happening I discovered an article at Position Is Everything that introduced me to a new clearing method which is far more elegant than the solution I was using previously.

You apply the .clearfix class to any div containing a float and its cleared!

.clearfix:after { content: "."; display: block; height: 0; clear: both; visibility: hidden; } .clearfix { display:inline-block; } /* Hide from IE Mac */ .clearfix {display:block;} /* End hide from IE Mac */

Roger Johansson also suggests adding the following code to a <=IE6 specific CSS file in order to make sure it works in earlier browsers.

clearfix {height:1px;}

For instance, I have a SimpleToolTip class that all you have to do is addChild and removeChild to manage it. When its added to the stage, I initialize everything that I need to turn on, when I remove it I turn everything back off.

Its just nice and clean.