Another thing what I wrote: the iOS version of the Topman Generation digital magazine. "But," I imagine I hear you scoff, "surely that's just a couple of web views pointing at the magazine site?" At which point I begin to cry, wishing it was that easy. Feature creep — including the one simple little word "caching" — turned this one into a bit of a nightmare.
And don't get me started on having to work with web guys. Seriously, don't. I mean, individually they're all lovely blokes, but once they start cranking out those scripting languages of theirs... You see that big grey area in the screenshot above? That's the result of removing the page headers and footers. You'd think it would be easy enough to have the rest of the page resize to fill the window, but no. Mind you, if you saw the mess of machine-generated markup it was trying to manipulate you'd probably realise why.
And as for load times... 112 requests and 3Mb just for the main page. Sigh.
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