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Developing on the webkit for iPhone I encountered a curious delay on onClick events. It seems that the click is triggered with about 300 milliseconds delay. While this is unnoticeable on a standard web page, it can be annoying on a web application. Fortunately the click event can be overridden thus eliminating the delay.

Create offline accessible webapps like Googles Gmail webapp for the iPhone using the html 5 applicationCache.

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