Apple iPad apple-mobile-web-app-capable caching issue

Question

I have created a web app for the iPad and have set the following tag:

<meta content="yes" name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" />

I am not using a manifest file because I don't want to use offline yet the iPad seems to cache it anyway.

I have had to reset the iPad to clear this cache, is there another way to sort this out?

Answer 1

CSS files should be refreshed every time you start your app. Most problems appear with JavaScript calls. To solve that: In your tag, add a parameter with a timestamp in your programming language, for example with php:

<script type="text/javascript" src="javacsript.js?v=<?php echo time(); ?>"></script>

That worked for me. If you still have problems with your CSS files, try to do the same with those tags:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="stylesheet.css?v=<?php echo time(); ?>" />

I haven't tried this one though.