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A mobile version of Apple’s Safari web browser.

On January 9, 2007 Steve Jobs announced the mobile version of the (Apple) Safari browser.

Mobile Safari is based on the same WebKit rendering engine as the desktop version, but with a modified feature set better suited for a mobile device.

The iPhone and the iPod Touch both run a device-specific version of Safari that has a few peculiarities, ranging from rendering and media capabilities (i.e., no Flash) to JavaScript and DOM quirks.

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Remove textarea inner shadow on Mobile Safari (iPhone)

By default, it seems Mobile Safari adds the top inner shadow to all input fields, including textarea. Is there a way to remove it? It's especially ugly when you have a white background.
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ipad safari: disable scrolling, and bounce effect?

I'm working on a browser based app, currently I'm developing and styling for the ipad safari browser. I'm looking for two things on the ipad: How can I disable vertical scrolling for pages that don't require it? & how can I disable the elastic…
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Some font-size's rendered larger on Safari (iPhone)

Are there CSS or other reasons why Safari/iPhone would ignore some font-size settings? On my particular website Safari on the iPhone renders some font-size:13px text larger than font-size:15px text. Does it maybe not support font-size on some…
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Javascript for "Add to Home Screen" on iPhone?

Is it possible to use Javascript to emulate the Add to Home Screen option in Mobile Safari's bookmark menu? Something similar to IE's window.external.AddFavorite(location.href, document.title); possibly?
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