The iOS 5 Beta 2: Two More New Goodies Uncovered
June 26, 2011
Apple surprised many with its release of iOS 5 beta 2 late Friday night. Now developers are talking, allowing us to know more about this release. Two new features that look exciting include a new first boot screen, plus a new way to scroll within a web app, according to Macstories.
The first change is how the Apple icon looks when an iDevice is turned on for the first time. Instead of showing a static image, the Apple logo now glows. This also happens when an iPhone or iPad is restored from iTunes.
Thereafter, the iDevice takes the user to the new Apple ID-based setup process with Cloud integration.
Take a look:
Also uncovered in iOS 5 beta 2 is a new CSS property that allows web developers to build web apps powered by native-app style scrolling.
According to Johan Brook, this is big news.
He states:
This is huge for web apps. No more custom Javascript to fake the native behavior, like iScroll and lately Scrollability from Joe Hewitt. Even Apple has written their own internal web framework (“PastryKit”) to patch up things like scrolling and fixed positioned elements. Scrollability is the best fake-native scrolling I’ve seen so far, and the one in apps built with Sencha Touch is pretty sharp as well, but I don’t think they can beat this alternative provided by Apple. There’s indeed a noticeable difference in momentum between scrolling in native apps and in web pages. It’s maybe the one single thing that makes you think: “Oh right, this is a web app”.Keep in mind these changes are only within the iOS 5 beta 2. Apple might alter or even delete these changes prior to the official iOS 5 release sometime this fall. Thoughts?