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In a desktop web application, this would be a simple feat because desktop browsers support position: fixed. In mobile Safari, setting an element to position: fixed does not fix the element relative to the viewport. To achieve fixed elements, we need to override native scrolling and implement our own custom scrolling for the content that we want to be scrollable.

What’s becoming an itch, however, is the lack of a serious, native-like SDK for development of webapps

Web Application Exploits and Defenses

Java, Flash, AIR and QT demonstrate right now that cross-platform applications are always inferior to the functionality and operation of the native framework on a host platform.