IOS 6, safari fullscreen webapp, home button

Question

I'm developping a webapp (javascript) to put on the homescreen of the iPad to be able to run it in fullscreen mode. Everything is working but after a random while, the home button doesn't work anymore. But the app still continuing to run, and the is no bug at all. I still can run javascript functions in the console with safari on my mac, alert, prompt, and all of those stuff are working. but not window.close(); To quit the application I have to restart my device by pushing the switch off button and the home button.

If anyone can help me to figure out what it is I would be very happy.

Answer 1

The SoundJS team has tracked this issue down to the web app entering full screen mode using:

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

A bug was reported to apple (reference #15133492).

Currently we have no work around except not entering full screen mode.