The Web Designer’s Guide to iOS Apps: Create iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad Apps with Web Standards (HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript)
by Kristofer Layon
9. HTML5 and CSS3
The buzz surrounding HTML5 and CSS3 has definitely been getting louder in the past few years. But for web designers who still need their sites to work consistently and predictably across all major browsers—antique as well as modern—questions remain: What is safe to use now, and what is still premature and unevenly supported? It can be a bit frustrating—we want to start learning how it all works and gain some experience with HTML5 and CSS3, but not push the envelope too far, too fast.
Fortunately, the browser engine in Apple’s mobile operating system uses WebKit, and the same great support for most new HTML5 and CSS3 rules in mobile Safari is also available for you to leverage in native iOS apps built with the NimbleKit Objective-C ...
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