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danielschwartzon A behind-the-scenes look at LinkedIn’s mobile engineering

"The company embedded an extremely lightweight HTTP server in the application itself. The HTTP server exposes native functionality through a very simple REST API that can be consumed in the embedded HTML controls through standard JavaScript HTTP requests"

As someone who has built a bridge between the WebView and iOS, why would you not use the native app url scheme (ex. linkedin:///goTo?storyId=1) and listen for them within the app? Even a lightweight HTTP server seems like serious overkill for this.

danielschwartzon CSS Animated Slide Toggle

You'd probably have a better framerate if you used translate or translate3d instead of a simple transition. Framerate is fine in Chrome but isn't fantastic on iPhone/iPad

danielschwartzon IOS browsers have a 300ms click delay - But developers can bypass it

I actually built something similar to this for where I work. We just recently open sourced it: http://jetsetter.github.com/MobileSafariQuickTap/

danielschwartzon Show HN: PathScrollbarMenu - A Javascript, Path inspired scrollbar menu

Yeah sorry about that, I didn't think that through. Ill go ahead and include a screenshot for now. In the future we'll suppress that login popup for people coming from GitHub/Hacker News/Reddit, so you can get a feel for it without signing up.