When I click on the Facebook bookmark I saved to my home screen, m.facebook.com appears in Safari but the navigation bar at the bottom and the URL bar at the disappear. At first I thought I was launching the Facebook app by mistake but I verified that's not the case. Any idea why this happens?
IPhone – Why does iPhone navigation bar disappear when browsing certain sites
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I got this picture off my iPad by starting the Samba daemon I have installed, and just browsing to the image using windows explorer.
No cable or iTunes needed,
I attack this problem by distributing the web app as a configuration profile. Rather than having people tap the mobile Safari button to add the app to the home screen, you have them download the profile file OTA from the web server.
They will need to approve the profile installation, but then you can control the icon and force the full screen attribute so that your users don't see Mobile Safari's chrome.
If your web content is getting opened in Mobile Safari (like the web content here, you may need to try playing with all links within the app to be relative to the site or program things to exist in an offline database rather than being full URL that cause the fullscreen safari to think it needs to open a linked page in the normal Mobile Safari view).
I also use this article on developing for iPad - perhaps you need to set the viewport and have a few other items to ensure that the touch interface is used to navigate rather than opening a new URL.
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Best Answer
Yes, mobile sites can be programmed to remove the navigation bar whilst browsing the site. Makes for a better user experience when these elements get out of the way.
This is documented here http://developer.apple.com/library/safari/#documentation/appleapplications/reference/SafariHTMLRef/Articles/MetaTags.html
In particular the apple-mobile-web-app-capable element.