Safari bookmarks are synchronized into icloud if you request it in iOS. But I can't see a way to download them from there.
I have an iphone but a Windows or Linux laptop. I don't use Safari on my laptops. I'd like to be able to pull my bookmarks (or ideally my history) from safari on my iphone to my laptop. I don't need to import it directly into a browser. I'd rather just make an app to present the data.
I presume that somewhere, somehow, there is a url that I could just retrieve (with the necessary authentication of course) and it would be the XBEL (or whatever format it is these days) of my bookmarks.
I guess another option is for me to switch to a different browser on my iphone that does allow me access to the bookmarks and history from inside icloud?
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For Delphi 10.4, build a web browsing app for multiple platforms with FMX. I used WebBrowser. Wondering where the cached filed stored? How to clear these files or history, like chrome incognito function?
Summary. I administer a website, for which I pay a small monthly fee to have hosted on a shared server. It has cPanel. When I upload a video which is longer than a few seconds, and password-protect it, and try to view it in Safari as a user would, it asks for the credential, but then won't play. If I try the same thing in Firefox, it works, and then it works in Safari for a day or so, without entering anything. What might be going on here?
Steps to reproduce
• Using cPanel's File Manager, create a new directory on my site.
• In cPanel, password-protect the new directory, composing a username and password.
• Using the FTP client on my computer, upload a 4-minute .mov Quicktime movie file to this new directory.
• On my computer running Mac OS X 10.9, activate Safari 7.0 and browse to the uploaded .mov file. A sheet and/or a freestanding dialog window appears asking for Username and password.
• Enter the User name and password, once or twice.
RESULT: A Quicktime Player appears, but showing the scrubber and control strip only, no video box. It says "Loading", and hangs there forever. Clicking the ► "play" button has no effect.
• On same Macintosh, activate Firefox (Aurora version 27) and browse to the same .mov file. Again, sheet appears asking for username and password.
• Enter username and password.
RESULT: Movie plays in Firefox.
• Reload page in Safari.
RESULT: Movie plays in Safari now, without entering anything.
Further Info
This seems to work until maybe the next day. If I try to reload the page the next day, it won't play until I enter username and password into Firefox again. This is apparently not related to my IP address, because whatsmyip.org is giving me the same number today as yesterday. Also, I just tried it in Safari on my iPad Mini, entered username and password, and it worked. But we're on the same LAN with the same gateway IP address.
Here is a link to the protected movie, which I have uploaded for testing. (It's a rip of the first 4 minutes of Apple's October 13 event.)
To test it, you'll need: Username: test Password: test13579
The finger most likely points at Safari, but before I give up and file a bug with Apple, can anyone take a stab at what might be going on or how to work around it?
Thanks,
Jerry Krinock
P.S. Why I want this: I support some Mac OS X apps, and sometimes people send me their private data in a support request. I'd like to be able to make a quick video, showing them what to do with their data, and then create a protected folder for them on my server, upload the video, and send them the username and password. I know there are alternative services which can do this, but to do it on my own cPanel site is quick, convenient for both of us, and of course, no additional cost or accounts to fuss with.
I did some more testing on the un-embedded video.
In Mac OS X, it plays OK in Firefox and Google Chrome, but not in Safari. In iOS 7, it plays OK in Safari, but not in Google Chrome and not in Foxbrowser.
How did they manage that?
But it doesn't matter because I have a workaround. Embed the video into a professionally-crafted HTML page.
Is it possible to upload an image created by the phone using Sencha Touch but without any dependency on PhoneGap? Basically my app will be accessible via the web, and not installed natively on the device. I want to be able to select an image from the phone storage and then be able to upload it to the service. I effectively want the same functionality as you would get with the file upload control on a normal desktop browser.
Is this possible, and if so how?
There is a current solution in its infancy, but it works. I tested it on my Nexus 7 using Chrome. Here is the list of compatibility:
Android (4.0 up) browser support as regular
Google Chrome for desktop and mobile
iOS Safari browser support from version 6.0 (not tested on mobile)
https://github.com/kostysh/File-uploading-component-for-Sencha-Touch
Desktop webbrowser and mobile browser are different in lot many cases. To access file upload option you need to access the OS API which is not possible using javascript only. Phonegap provides us option to connect js with device API. If you can find a way to do this, without using Phonegap, then may be you can fix, or else its not possible.
It seems to me that if the user installs another browser on Windows 8, the default tile for Internet Explorer should change to that new browser. However, it doesn't seem like Chrome or Firefox currently does this. Is it even possible to replace the IE tile with the tile for another app programmatically?
You can't do that.
All Windows store applications work in a sandbox environment and doesn't have access to core OS api's. App's are restricted to core OS api's so that malicious applications cannot change system setting without user knowing about it.
Start Screen is OS level, and Apps do not have acces to the order of tiles. If they had, user would loose all personalization made as every App would move itself to the first row and column, as Raymond Chen stated.
We have an web application which users access from the iPad safari web browser.We want certain kind of analytic about the users.
I want to know what information can i get through the safari browser about the user`s iPad.Can i access
1) iOS version installed.
3) Safari web browser version.
2) UDID of device.
You can analyze the User Agent ID, and it will tell you which iOS version is used and the version number of MobileSafari, but AFAIK there is no way to query the UDID (luckily, I might add, since that'll be an even nastier privacy issue than cookies already are).