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Comment by storborg | Hacker News Reader

You aren't "stuck dealing with the forward button / back button structure". You can get rid of those with just:

    <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">

There seems to be quite a few issues with this:

These issues are from Oct 08. I don't know when they were fixed, but touch events and orientation detection work fine in Hahlo (an iPhone web app).

These have been fixed for quite a while now - the iPhone web app I put together supports rotation and touch events in application mode.