The last weeks some minor bugs were fixed and features were improved.
A big improvement with 5.03 is that there are no more display problems some of you have experienced on 3G/EDGE. just add media=”screen” to your css link!
We are working on a better RSS feed converter that is actually built into iWebKit but that comes in a later release!
Yesterday I quickly released iwebkit version 4.6.2 fixing a huge javascript error on my part leading to problems withthe popup. Indeed when a page was used with a size over the window size of the iPod the black cover would not show and the popup would be cut of in fullscreen.
Instead of getting the document height the javascript got the window height.
The themepack also received a minor update adding a missing image for the list view. It does not change according to the theme so if you didn’t delete it you are fine.
Also iforum has been posted in the download section for those still wanting to give it a try.
Nothing really new here. Just some corrections to the user guide and demo files.
One exciting thing is that all the thumbnails are now viewable in any browser or graphic editor (finally). They have also been optimized so that the size of the pack has, again, reduced by 20Kb.
Thanks to The Grim Sultan on the iWebKit forum for the image fixes.
No need to update really besides including he new thumbnails and optionally updating your image folder.
Today it is sunday so i finnaly had plenty of time to release iWebKit 4.6. here is an overview of the new features and fixes:
- New wordpress thumbnail
- Load more items can now be added to lists (lists will be viewable if JS is off!)
- The Popup is now fully fullscreen compatible and you an add multiple popups on 1 page, also the code is a little bit smaller.
- The footer text will be styled even if there is no <a> tag around the text
- the storelist background image is not not loaded by default anymore
- random bug fixes, style improvements and optimizations
To update, replace your popup code, css file, javascript file, change the image link from blog.png to wordpress.png
happy upgrading 
and thanks a lot Reinier Schoof for the multiple popup and hte load 10 more javascript! You are a hero!
You can follow the latest updates for the server at www.twitter.com/iwebkitjohan
UPDATE: The whole site has now been transfered so there shouldn’t be any problems anymore!
Soon there will be a little update for iwebkit with some fixes and tweaks makes the user and webbuilder experience better. Especially expect updates for the popup.
Please post your request so that they can be included in the update if I like them.
I recently noticed the User guide was completely kaput so I quickly grabbed my Adobe indesign and… it didn’t work anymore… I got some strange error message and even resetting settings or reinstalling the app didn’t work. So that already took a couple of hours.
Next I decided to simply install indesign on an older PC I have laying around. This time indesign started but for some awkward reason it didn’t work right with AMD processors. So I googled around and saw i simply had to download an update.
The only problem here was that I have no internet on my old desktop. So what I did is take my ipod touch, download PdaNet and voila I had freakin’ Wifi on my PC!!
So then i downloaded the indesign update and here is the newest version of iWebKit:
- Fixed bug where the background image in a store list would not appear
- Re-added the usefull info section that somehow got deleted
- Fixed the problem where the Music List paragraph was cut of and the form elements paragraph was in the middle of the 2 bits
- more warnings
- Added links in the UG so that when you click on a title in the summary you go to that page
- other random fixes i can’t remember
No update needed if you’re fine because this just changes the User guide
Enjoy.
iWebKit 4.5.1 had some small details i forgot to work away. They interfere in no way with your use of iwebkit but are mostly spelling errors and other minor problems. The size of the pack has, again, reduced by 100kb (that’s 16% less) without the removal of any file.
In this release 2 things have changed
In the process, the “Custom” object is now gone. Its properties are now attached to iWebkit too. Note that functions are objects in javascript, and therefore you can attach properties and methods to them. iWebkit is defined as a function-object, in fact, in the file that I’m sending you.
As you have read just above in the quote from jorge you have to change a little bit of your code if you are using the popup. change onclick=”popup” to onclick=”iWebkit.popup()” and onclick”closepopup() to onclick=”iWebkit.closepopup()”
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You can consider iwebkit 4.5.1 as an optimisation update. It has a load of great additions, fixes and most importantly it’s way smaller!
First of all, when version 4.5 came out I posted about it on a googlegroup and knowing the mentality of the people there I knew they wouldn’t be entoushastic. Only 1 day after that event a friendly guy called Jorge Chamorro sent me an awsome email with an optimized javascript code and a tip on how to compress images. This acctually helped me see that even if the javascript works great it could be optimized. I passed it trough jslint a popular javascript “validator” (it isn’t a reference but helps you fix problems) and all the problems have now been fixed and I’ve also redone all the white spaces!
That’s the main reason why I wanted to thank jorge!
With that I decided to include uncompressed versions of both the css and the javascript files. This will really make developing easy and I’m sorry I have not done this before. It’s obvious coders need easy acces to the code.
So that handles the javascript upgrade. No new features but cleaner code and the browser will be able to read it faster.
Now to the images. As I’ve told you just above here, jorge has sent me a tip about reducing the size of images. He acctually included a folder with a set of these smaller images and told me he used adobe fireworks for that (acctually an older version called imageready). What I did next, of course, is hurry and download adobe fireworks cs4 to optimize the images myself often reducing the size by 90%, even more than what jorge was able to squize out of it! But that isn’t the most important part of it, the thing is the quality of the images is exactly the same! By changing the encoding of the images and playing with the number of colors I’ve gotten most out of them and the result is fantastic!
Remebering that I’ve added new uncompressed (that means big) files I still managed to reduce the size of the whole zip file by 25%! That’s about as big as version 3 was but with tons of new features and a 400kb user guide!
To stay into the images, I have taken all the iPhone and iPod touch icons straight from the devices using SSH which means they are the real deal! Next I’ve turned those into the thumbnails you can use in menu items.
To do this I had to convert and hack the special png format apple uses for it’s devices by flipping some color channels and fixing some problems. I passed them trough photoshop cutting of a black edge at the top and next passed them trough fireworks to reduce their size. So now the thumbnails are a lot smaller and viewable on a computer too. There are 4 icons that are handy and don’t come from the iPhone that I couldn’t edit or replace, but that’s not such a big deal.
That’s about a big roundup of this new version. Thanks again Jorge for your files, Kevin Reilly for some help in general and Gelegrodan for the iPhone icons.
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