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Re:Safire - An iPhone Web Application Framework by auston on Thursday May 15, 2008 @06:46PM (#191124)
jsjenkins, in software a framework is usually defined as (From Wikipedia):

   "...a re-usable design for a software system"
This "framework" encapsulates a lot of iPhone-ish style attributes (like buttons, toolbars, lists, sliding/animation & icons) as well as a good number of webkit's(and mobile safari's) new css / js functions.

Additionally we plan to support:

Gesture Events (this should be iPhone specific enough for you)

& Mobile Safari's Offline Database API

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Re:Safire - An iPhone Web Application Framework by jsjenkins168 on Thursday May 15, 2008 @06:57PM (#191135)
Sorry, was just a bit confused when I saw iPhone web application framework because I usually think of involving server-side when I see that term, and from that perspective there is little difference between the iPhone browser and others.

Being able to easily stylize your pages to achieve iPhone-like appearance is definitely very useful.

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Re:Safire - An iPhone Web Application Framework by auston on Thursday May 15, 2008 @07:10PM (#191153)
No problem, I probably didn't pick the best description for it anyway.
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