Chapter 20. The web: web views and internet protocols

This chapter covers

We started this book with a look at the web. Chapters 3 through 8 offered an extensive discussion of building iPhone web apps using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and the dynamic programming language of your choice. As we said at the time, web development is one of two major ways that you can program for the iPhone, the other being the SDK that we’ve spent the last ten chapters on.

We’ve generally suggested web apps as the proper platform for creating internet-related programs. This chapter will present some solutions for when that’s not the case. Even if you’re depending heavily on the web, there are numerous reasons ...

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