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If you want to create applications for the IPhone but don’t want to go into the troubles with the ITunes Store or you are too lazy to learn Objective-C, there is another possibility: create a web application with a native IPhone Look and Feel.

For this purpose there exist some frameworks:

• iui
• iWebKit
• Apache Trinidad

These frameworks fake the Look and Feel of an IPhone application by using CSS and JavaScript. The developer creates normal HTML lists and includes the framework, which does all the hard work. Following there are two pictures that show a music application developed with the frameworks iui (on the left) and iWebKit (on the right).

To hide the status bar of the Safari browser, add the following code to the HTML header:

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0;
               maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/>
<meta name="apple-touch-fullscreen" content="YES"/>

The web application can be placed on the IPhone start screen like a native app. The title of the HTML file is used as application name. The icon of the application can be set with the following code:

<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="icon.png"/>

If you want to upload your web application to the ITunes Store, you should look at the following frameworks:

• Nimble
• PhoneGap

They allow the conversion of HTML pages into native IPhone apps.

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