iPhone OS 2.0: Full screen Safari, New CSS Effects, Bonjour, SVG Support, and More

by Jody Mitoma on March 10, 2008 at 11:08 pm


Full Screen Safari Support

iPhone OS 2.0, due out June of this year, will sport a full-screen Safari that supports new CSS effects and SVG images. Also, there will be full support for Bonjour (Apple’s zero configuration networking scheme).

Here’s a more in-depth description of the new features, thanks to iPhone Atlas:

  • Bonjour Full support for bonjour (Apple’s zero configuration networking scheme) will be included in iPhone OS 2.0. This allows you to discover and connect with other nearby iPhones. Bonjour is available in the foundation, core foundation and base system includes. This feature was existent but dormant in previous iPhone OS releases.
  • Full-screen mode in Safari This means that Web apps can be displayed without the Safari address bar and other elements. With an appropriate meta tag, a Web app launched from the home screen can automatically be launchd in full-screen mode.
  • Support for SVG (scalable vector graphics 1.1.): a resolution-independent image format that is highly compressible
  • A series of new CSS effects some of which are hardware accelerated, for transforms, transitions and animations

Sounds good to me!

(Source: iPhone Atlas)

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5 Responses to “iPhone OS 2.0: Full screen Safari, New CSS Effects, Bonjour, SVG Support, and More”

  1. Andy Huang said:

    March 11th, 2008 at 12:40 am

    About the fullscreen support; I see pro’s and con’s on that front… and particularly the con’s… because I can already see people abusing the meta to hide navigation and tabbing options when not needed. Though, if done properly (IE: for things like facebook mobile), it will be very very awesome. We’ll just have to wait and see how this one plays out, I guess?

  2. stelt said:

    March 11th, 2008 at 1:38 am

    SVG suddenly made the iPhone interesting to me
    All the examples of http://svg.startpagina.nl in my pocket

  3. toomuchcaffiene said:

    March 11th, 2008 at 2:48 pm

    Personally I think that full-screen Safari should have been included from the start, what with Steve-o pushing for web apps rather than native ones. It would have made a lot more sense back then, but it is still a welcome addition.

  4. Dennison Uy - Graphic Designer said:

    March 11th, 2008 at 10:25 pm

    Same here I had expected full screen Safari to have been included from the very beginning.

  5. Gerald Buckley said:

    July 14th, 2008 at 11:43 pm

    Sad that SVG didn’t make the 2.0 release. Perhaps in a future version…

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