Loading screen for iOS webapps

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Loading screen for iOS webapps

Is there a way to present the user with a loading/startup image with a webapp in iOS the same way you can with a Obj-C app?

I'm currently tinkering with a webapp project and one of the problems is that when it initially loads, it presents the user with whatever they last saw when leaving the app for about 10+ seconds before the site loads. This leads people to think they can start interacting with it but nothing happens and it appears frozen. Having a default loading/startup screen would be a better option. Is there any way to do that?

Posted on Aug 26, 2011 11:19 AM

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Rick Anderson Author

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Aug 26, 2011 11:34 AM in response to Rick Anderson

Gah... always seems like I'm one more minute of research away from answering a question when I post about it. 😁

For those of you interested in the answer, you'll find it here:

http://developer.apple.com/library/safari/#documentation/AppleApplications/Refer ence/SafariWebContent/ConfiguringWebApplications/ConfiguringWebApplications.html

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