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Storing iPhone apps locally with data URLs - Mark

Mark — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:58:51 -0700

hansp's Data URL Developer above (very clever) requires scrolling within the text area; use TWO fingers to scroll content inside of the text area.
http://furbo.org/2007/07/16/iphone-...

Storing iPhone apps locally with data URLs - cookie monster

cookie monster — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:15:47 -0700

I'm trying to figure out a way to use cookies with this. Any suggestions on how I can set the domain property of a cookie to be any url that starts in "data:" using javascript? That way you could pass data between two different data urls

Storing iPhone apps locally with data URLs - curious

curious — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:29:56 -0700

sorry for sounding like a total idiot - what is the javascript / php or html equivalent so you can retrieve data from a bookmark ?

$_GET .. something #elitecss ? lets say my bookmark is called "elitecss" which has url address of an entire css file. anyone ? an (detailed) example would be great

Storing iPhone apps locally with data URLs - Tessa

Tessa — Fri, 30 May 2008 21:37:11 -0700

I am not very great at these types of things. [totally illiterate.] but could someone explain how to do that, in simpler terms that a slow person like me could undertand thanks in advance. :)

Storing iPhone apps locally with data URLs - Natasha

Natasha — Sun, 04 May 2008 08:01:31 -0700

I have found two interesting sources ( http://filesfinds.com & http://fileshunt.com ) and would like to give the benefit of my experience to you.

Understanding mdfind - Francis

Francis — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:09:52 -0700

Thanks for this, I was struggling with the mdfind man page and needed to know the query expression syntax.

Good Hash Functions - Dmitry

Dmitry — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:59:45 -0800

You should take a look at the last version of Bob Jenkins's hash, which is called Lookup3. The old one that included in Paul Hsieh's test program is significantly slower. Theoretically, Lookup3 has about the same speed as Paul Hsieh's hash, but it has much better collision properties. It is the only hash that passes the frog.c test (sets of keys that are all the same length, with all bytes zero, except with a few bits set). See more details on Bob Jenkins's page.

As to speed concern, in my admittedly not very scientific tests, Lookup3 performed better than Paul Hsieh's hash with maximum optimization and about as good as Paul Hsieh's hash with the typical optimization.

The test is done by Paul Hsieh's test modified to include Lookup3. I've included the results of two runs for each optimization setting.

$gcc -O3 -march=athlon-xp hash.c -o hash
==========================
$./hash
BobJenkins : 1.8100s
SuperFastHash : 1.5500s
Lookup3 : 1.3800s
==========================
BobJenkins : 1.8100s
SuperFastHash : 1.5600s
Lookup3 : 1.3600s
==========================

$gcc -O2 hash.c -o hash
==========================
$./hash
BobJenkins : 1.8100s
SuperFastHash : 1.5400s
Lookup3 : 1.5700s
==========================
$./hash
BobJenkins : 1.8100s
SuperFastHash : 1.5500s
Lookup3 : 1.5800s

Storing iPhone apps locally with data URLs - iPhone Developer

iPhone Developer — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 22:01:05 -0700

I have tested the data: URL functionality on the iPhone. If you have read the documentation on the data: URL stuff (see RFC 2397) you will note warnings about length of the <data> stream. I've done some testing tonight and the limit on Safari 3.0 on the iPhone is 128K. This is enough for some fairly sophisticated app development using HTTP, XML, CSS, and Javascript and especially the xmlhttprequest object in JavaScript, but that's about it.

Storing iPhone apps locally with data URLs - MJ

MJ — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 20:47:58 -0700

Sorry, I have very limited programing experience but plenty of alcohol. I just want to play freaking shredder chess offline. Can someone tell me how to do it step by step for someone that is good at following detailed instructions, but not that program savvy? I also am in the process of converting to mac entirely, but still only have a PC at home.

Storing iPhone apps locally with data URLs - Kee Hinckley

Kee Hinckley — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:11:18 -0700

Thanks for the inspiration of the one-liner. That led me to waste most of the afternoon completing the task. http://www.somewhere.com/url2iphone... will let you enter the URL of a web site and get back a complete package--images, css and javascript--as a single data URL. I'm sure it's buggy, but feel free to try it out.

Storing iPhone apps locally with data URLs - ab

ab — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:50:49 -0700

>> Here is a quick development package, all in the URL ;-)
(see hansp post of 17 July 2007)

This script allowing modify and save for bookmarks
is clever. I could only get it to function
on Firefox, not the iphone. Anyone come up with
a method of editing data url pages on the iphone?

Storing iPhone apps locally with data URLs - Chris Patterson

Chris Patterson — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:42:41 -0700

The Wikipedia article on data: URIs links to this fine online data: URI generator:

http://www.scalora.org/projects/uri...

Use "HTML" mode and copy the resulting anchor href value or img src value.

Storing iPhone apps locally with data URLs - Dave Keay

Dave Keay — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:14:17 -0700

After seeing this post, a friend and I put together some scripts in a really easy to use package - drop a file on it, and you get a bookmark you can sync with your phone!

We called it Filemark Maker, and It's at http://www.insanelygreattees.com/ne...

Storing iPhone apps locally with data URLs - Martin R

Martin R — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:18:02 -0700

This sounds like a fantastic breakthrough. Can't wait for it to work, especially for web pages. For me, PDFs aren't as important but also sound great.

# 5 David, you posted the code to make this work. It is not functioning on my iPhone or Mac's Safari. Somehow the spacing is not going into a link right for me. But x=new has a space before the XML and any combo of no space or percent20 space added in the URL if left alone don't seem to do anything for me. More explanation would be fantastic.

Storing iPhone apps locally with data URLs - Danny Goodman

Danny Goodman — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:15:21 -0700

Bear in mind that apps running via the data: protocol do not appear to preserve cookies. I use a cookie for preferences in my tip calculator, which means in the data: version, you have to reset your preferences (if they're not the default) each time you load the app. I made a data: version a few days ago, which you can load from the second link at http://dannyg.com/iphone.

Storing iPhone apps locally with data URLs - W. Clawpaws

W. Clawpaws — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 01:43:52 -0700

To respond to “GQB”'s claim that my Perl one-liner is a six liner: splitting hairs over this kind of stuff seems pretty silly to me, but hey. FWIW, while it's true my original wasn't one statement, it nevertheless was one (long) line. When I type code into the shell on one line, I (and others) call it a one liner.

In any case, the Perl script would be better written to do all its real work in one statement, as follows:

perl -0777 -e 'use MIME::Base64; print "data:text/html;charset=utf-8;base64,", encode_base64(scalar(<>), ""), "\n";'

So, the original is hardly a model of perfection, but I when wrote it, I was just writing a snippet of Perl in a few seconds at the shell prompt. Good enough was good enough.

Storing iPhone apps locally with data URLs - GQB

GQB — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:05:19 -0700

Not to put too fine a point on it, but that's actually a 6-line perl script.

Storing iPhone apps locally with data URLs - Attila Csordas

Attila Csordas — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:13:35 -0700

Thanks fellows for the tips, here is the non geek version optimized for PDF storing and reading via Safari. Long live the landscape mode: http://pimm.wordpress.com/2007/07/1...

Storing iPhone apps locally with data URLs - levyesq

levyesq — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:26:03 -0700

OK, guys, for non-programmers, where do you put the code to make it work - in plain English, please. Thanks.

Storing iPhone apps locally with data URLs - iluvcapra

iluvcapra — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:40:51 -0700

I successfully encoded the entire first volume of Gibbon's Decline and Fall to PDF and moved it to my iPhone. It even opens it, though Safari generally crashes after a few minutes of scrolling down pages. The PDF I made was 1.2 Megs.

Also, Safari on my Macbook would beachball for minutes at a time when I'd try to copy/paste or move the data URL around the bookmark page. I had to use the Property List editor to add the data: URL into my bookmarks with any speed.