Load a webview in the background - uiwebview

I have a tab bar application and when it starts up there are web views on different tab bars. The app needs speed so when someone opens and it loads onto the first tab bar I need the other web views in the background to load when the application starts. One of my UIWebView's is named twitter and it is on the 'SecondViewController'. I assume the code is in the appDelegate, help is much appreciated in a basic form for my knowledge isn't great.

UIWebViews can't be rendered offscreen. The best you can do is cache an image of the content the last time it was accessed and present that, then load the web view and cross fade between the two.

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Mobile text inputs reload the page on “focus”

I have a site with form fields that work well on desktop, the problem comes in mobile view. When I click on the form fields the page reloads, What could be the issue?
I suggest you look for the culprit javascript code that may be reloading you're page when the screen resizes.
It appears I had a script that automatically reloaded pages on screen resize, so if you experience such a problem, use developer tools to know what script is affecting the said page, go through it to find the culprit.
Regards.

Struggling with Chrome Extension architecture

I'm new to Chrome extension development, and I'm a bit struggling with the architecture to put in place.
I would like to develop an extension (browser_action), that, when the button is clicked, opens a window where information will be populated from the WebTraffic.
I figured out I could use the WebRequest API to get info about the traffic.
I could create a popup window, but it's displayed only when I click on the extension button, and hides as soon as I click somewhere else
I tried creating a background window, but it does not show up.
I'd be very grateful if anyone could help me with the initial setup of my application.
Thanks in advance
You need both.
Take a look at the Architecture Overview, or maybe this question.
The lifetime of the popup is indeed equal to how long it stays on screen. It's the UI part, but putting logic there is usually bad.
A background page is permanently there but invisible. It's typically the "brain" of an extension, taking care of heavy lifting and routing messages to other parts.
In short:
You need a background script to collect webRequest information for you in some format.
You need a popup page to show it. Keep in mind it's not guaranteed to be present at a given time and can close at any time.
It's probably best to use Messaging to request the information from the background page. If you need real-time updates, you can use long-lived connections.
In your case you can also tightly couple the two and call chrome.runtime.getBackgroundPage() to directly reference stuff in it.

Interaction between Chrome extension popups and DOM w/o running into CSS conflicts

After many hours of research, I've seen multiple ways to do similar things. But I don't want to pigeonhole myself into approaching this in the wrong way, so I would appreciate any advice on how to achieve the following.
When clicking on my extension icon, I want to load a toolbar onto the current page. This toolbar has a number of links and forms that can:
Interact with the original page (DOM Listeners, changing the DOM)
Create additional extension popups on the original page
Make requests to external resources
From a JS perspective, I think it would be easiest to inject all my own HTML directly on the page and handle functionality via one content script. I abandoned that approach after realizing I'd never be able to account for all CSS conflicts in my popups.
So instead, this is what I have so far. When clicking on my Extension icon, I inject a div into the current page and load up an iframe sourced to a popup.html via chrome.extension.getURL('popup1.html'). This is where I get stuck. By loading my content into an iframe, I have isolated any CSS issues. But say I have text selected on the parent page and I click a button in my popup1.html. Is there then a way to pass the selected text back to the popup1.html or to show that selected text in a new popup2.html?
I hope that once I get the workflow down on how to do this kind of interaction I can move on with development. Thanks for your help!

How to remove IE toolbar and menu bar

We have a asp.net web application which will be used in an intranet environment on IE 6. We want to change the default configuration of the browser so that it's always rendered without the Tool Bars, Menu Bars and Address Bar, just the browser window frame and the status bar should be present.
We were looking at the IEAK toolkit for IE6 but it doesn't seem to have the option of turning all this off though you can turn off certain menus and toolbar options.
Any ideas of how this can be done, is there a group policy setting or something that we can utilize here to get this done?
Thanks for your help.
You have to handle the showing of toolbars, address bar,... before the page is loaded, because it's built client side.
So to solve your problem, I think you should write the first page (Enter page for example) Then when use click on the Enter link you open another page using VBScript or Javascript to remove toolbars, address bar,...
Hope this helps ^^
Have you investigated Kiosk Mode?
Also, you're deploying IE6 at the wrong end of its lifecycle.
It also sounds like your requirement is for an app you're developing; mandating that the browser is configured this way for all sites might make the customers unhappy. If you want to know how to open a browser window without those things for your site, from your site, I'd suggest a repost to StackOverflow.

Google Earth Questions: Making Outside Pages Appear in Google Earth and A Button That Follows

Good morning, eveyrone
I'm working on an application using Google Earth and I had two questions.
The first question involves the pop up window. I want to get an external website to appear in this bubble. I can either hardcode the website into the description of the placemark or use an iFrame. Are there any other options I can use to get a website into Google Earth?
Second question: I want to ensure that the user, at all times while using my kml, has access to certain buttons. Is there a way without querying web application every few seconds to ensure that the button remains available to the user?
Thank you for your time.
The answer to you first question is no - other than loading the html directly or using an IFRAME there is no way to display markup in the content balloons.
I am not sure what you mean in you second question, are you developing a web-based application using the Google Earth Plugin - or a kml layer for use in the google earth application. Either way you should not have to query anything to make sure a button is visible.

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