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Okay this is a blog post on specific request. My earlier post on Generating Signed Urls for Amazon’s Product Advertising in PHP got a comment today requesting help in regards to executing an iTunes Store search via iTunes API. Now I really wonder whether the user landed on that post in context of Amazon’s API and saw the (very) brief mention for iTunes search integration, or did he stumble upon that page looking for iTunes search help only. But so much for the introduction, let’s jump into the actual blog content and a quick example.

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Our designer had created a comprehensive custom theme for ExtJs, and we wanted to use it in our ASP.NET app that leverages Ext.Net and ExtJs extensively.

If you have used Ext.Net, you would know that all ExtJs resources are embedded in Ext.Net.dll assembly that are automatically put on the page whenever you add an <ext:ResourceManager /> to the page. This includes the core ExtJs css and javascript resources (including current ExtJs theme’s resources), plus Ext.Net’s own resources (providing extensions/enhancements to Ext classes).

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I yesterday did a very interesting thing, integrating ExtJs with the excellent iScroll 4 script from Matteo Spinelli that would make my ExtJs containers intuitively scrollable on Touch devices (especially iPad) giving them a more native scrolling feel.

You might be knowing already that mobile webkit (on iPhone, iPad, Android) does not provide a native way to scroll content inside a fixed width/height element. In simpler terms, this means overflow: auto or overflow: scroll does not work on mobile browsers as you are used to seeing them on PCs. When a element’s contents exceed its visible area on touch devices, scrollbars do not appear for any value of overflow css property you specify. Instead mobile users are left with having to use the extremely unfriendly 2-finger scroll to scroll contents on mobile browsers.