Question

I am using a UIWebView in my app and when I rotate my iPhone the webview rotates along with it, works just fine. However, you see the corners of the background view behind my webview as it rotates and it can look a little flickery when rotating.

So I went and tried Safari on my iPhone, using the same website and it different. In Safari if I rotate, its far smoother, I can also see it zooms slightly.

For example, I am on Apple’s homepage in portrait mode, fully zoomed out to see the whole page. I rotate to landscape and the contents zooms, as far as I can observe this is why it looks smoother.

So, my question, how can I achieve this in my app?

I have played with the ‘Scales Page To Fit’ option but had no success.

Currently:
Rotating scales the webpage to fit the view. (Whole page is zoomed out to be seen).

Required:
When rotating, rather than rescaling the page, just let it zoom as required.

Answer 1

Don’t know if this will help you, but you might find it useful to change the background color (or even background image) of the view behind your webview, which might mitigate your issue with seeing the corners.