title: Single Page Web Apps for the iPad?
body: <p>I'm looking to make a single-page web app that works exclusively on the iPad, like <a href="http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/gmail-on-ipad.html" rel="nofollow">Gmail on the iPad</a> and the <a href="http://help.apple.com/ipad/mobile/interface/" rel="nofollow">iPad User Guide</a>. An app like this must be made using a framework that allow web pages to behave in ways much more akin to iPad's native applications (momentum scrolling, split-view panes, UIKit-style interface), but done completely in HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript (with WebKit and Safari extensions like iOS-specific multi-touch and gesture events).</p>
  
  <p>The only public framework I've found that targets the iPad in this matter is Sencha Touch. Naturally, Google and Apple aren't sharing the libraries <em>they've</em> written (ie. PastryKit, AdLib, etc). Are there any others (the open-source <em>only</em> license for Sencha Touch is prohibitive, and jQTouch is <em>only</em> for small-screen devices like the iPhone 4, and <em>not</em> the iPad)? How would I go about writing momentum scrolling and split-view panes like this? Any good resources/tutorials/books/links on these advanced topics?</p>
  
  <p>For a lot of reasons, people want to write web apps for the iPad that can compete with native.</p>