This article was from 2011 (EDIT: oops, I said 2010 but the article says "January 2011" - though I'm sure they had it out before then) - I think everyone who's done iphone web dev is either using this, or has come up with something similar.

The HTML5 Mobile Boilerplate project uses "Fast Buttons": https://github.com/h5bp/mobile-boilerplate/wiki/JavaScript-H...