Cant input text from ipad?

TTony · May 2014

deano said:

I can post from my IPad Air, but I don't get any line breaks. How do you get them so I can put some spacing in between paragraphs?

deano said:

It doesn't do anything except either insert & nbsp or drop out of editing mode.
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Just testing here to see if I can manually add a break.

This is from my iPad Air

Once I've toggled the <> button.

With para breaks. Text box background should be white, rather then yellow.

TTony · May 2014

And here we go, entering text on a Nexus 7.

Full site, not the mobile version.

With line breaks and everything.

Dolphin browser!

EricTheWeary · May 2014

d8m said:

I can't insert pics from Ipad.

The pic icon Is greyed out and when you click on it it does nothing.

Is there a way round this?

This on the iPad and still can't do new posts on the Xperia (android) tablet unless I quote somebody and then delete out that quote. Like @TTony on his Nexus these are both the full sites - is there not a way to choose the mobile site? The mobile site comes up on my android phone. If I accidentally hit the full site button I can't get back without closing the tab and restarting.

TTony · May 2014

@erictheweary - try the Dolphin browser on Android.

EricTheWeary · May 2014

TTony said:

@erictheweary - try the Dolphin browser on Android.

Cheers, will try that later.

A5D5E5 · January 2015

Test to try to get line breaks on an iPad.

Does it work?

Yes!

Deadman · May 2015

Just tried to enter text using a Hudl 2 on Android Chrome. I clicked the <> thingy and had no end of problems, including not having the ability to add paragraphs as others have stated.

This is using Dolphin.

Paragraph...

As suggested by Tony.

No problems at all.

Edit:

Line breaks.

Work too. Sweet!

monquixote · May 2015

EricTheWeary said:

d8m said:

I can't insert pics from Ipad.

The pic icon Is greyed out and when you click on it it does nothing.

Is there a way round this?

This on the iPad and still can't do new posts on the Xperia (android) tablet unless I quote somebody and then delete out that quote. Like @TTony on his Nexus these are both the full sites - is there not a way to choose the mobile site? The mobile site comes up on my android phone. If I accidentally hit the full site button I can't get back without closing the tab and restarting.

There is a link to get back to the mobile site at the bottom of the page.

Deadman · May 2015

The mobile site link at the bottom of the page is missing on my hudl too. Its there on my mobile.

No matter when using Dolphin and the full site. It seems to work seamlessly.

EricTheWeary · May 2015

Typing on my iPad trying to format again...

Does it work?

EricTheWeary · May 2015

Feck, it did! Never, ever got that to work before !

bingefeller · June 2015

Speaking of iDevices, can we get emojis on here please?

cbilly22 · September 2015

Oooh, glad I found this thread...been swearing at my tablet for a while now. Awesome...seems to work.

Rocker · September 2015

Testing, adding a line break. Next line

ICBM · September 2015

The formatting thing is inconsistent and a bit annoying…

Works fine on Mac.

Works fine on iPhone when in Mobile mode, but when in Full Site mode it will not put in line breaks.

iPad is in Full Site mode and doesn't appear to have the option of Mobile so it also won't put in breaks.

TTony · September 2015

ICBM said:

iPad is in Full Site mode and doesn't appear to have the option of Mobile so it also won't put in breaks.

@ICBM

Typing

this

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an

iPad

???

ICBM · September 2015

I will just try it again... Edit: that all had breaks between every word. And a double one before 'edit'. ??? Indeed!

TTony · September 2015

You have clicked the < > button, top right of the textbox toolbar?

ICBM · September 2015

Let me try that... I thought that was for source code editing. It seems to be on the computer.

Edit: didn't seem to work.

ICBM · September 2015

But did when I edited it. ?

I don't know...

The kids want the iPad back now anyway

.

And that did... But now it's showing all the source when I edit it! Grrrr. I'll just stick to the phone.

Ah, I see. You have to click it every time you go into it. Faff...

mart · September 2015

I have no problem getting line breaks on the iPad as long as I remember to press the <> button.

But it often seems to randomly flip back to the other mode, especially when editing.

ICBM · September 2015

mart said:

I have no problem getting line breaks on the iPad as long as I remember to press the <> button.

But it often seems to randomly flip back to the other mode, especially when editing.

Yes, that's what I've just found. You not only have to click it, you have to make sure it stays clicked, and going back into edit mode tends to turn it off again.

I posted this by going back to the computer and typing it there. Much easier.

TimmyO · November 2015

Please please please fix the template for iPad.

I post less than I would because of it.

digitalkettle · November 2015

TimmyO said:

Please please please fix the template for iPad.

I post less than I would because of it.

I post from an iPad a fair bit...I find I have to tap in the text area...then hit the '<>' button...maybe back & forth once or twice...then everything works out okay.

TimmyO · November 2015

Well, exactly. It's a pain in the arse.

t gets brought up time and time again by users. And every new person has to learn it or assumes it's just broken (well, it is...)

http://www.nngroup.com/articles/usability-101-introduction-to-usability/

TTony · November 2015

TimmyO said:

http://www.nngroup.com/articles/usability-101-introduction-to-usability/

@TimmyO

The reason that the functionality is limited when using an iPad (and some other devices) is the text editor add-in that we use here. That said, probably 50% of my input here has been from an iPad, so it can be done, with that little <> workaround.

The reason that the text editor add-in has limited functionality is - largely - because it's free, and not a commercial piece of software. We could use wonderful sing-y dance-y software here, but that would cost money.

The reason that we use free software, as opposed to sing-y dance-y cost-more software, is because we don't have the ££s to actually pay for the software.

The reason that we don't have the ££s is because the forum is free.

We take no ads.

We charge no membership fees.

We generate no revenues in any form (other than the t-shirt/calendar fund raisers that a small minority of our members actually support), yet somehow we manage to support a 'kin large database with enough bandwidth to support the current 80k+ hits a day and beyond, that's had <1hr of unplanned downtime since we went live over 2 years ago.

Yes, I'm touchy.

TimmyO · November 2015

If the egg-sucking comment is because this is your profession then you'll know that ux trap-101 is assuming because you don't mind users don't.

How much would a working text editor cost? (genuine Q - there may be a way to generate those funds)

Fixing the current one is probably less than a couple of days of a good ux dev. Depending what's needed, potentially way less.

Until yesterday (when my redundancy was finalised - boo) it was my job to challenge 'it'll be ok' in ux among other things. So yes I suppose I'm also touchy about it haha

TTony · November 2015

Well, if you're offering some skills to help the dev work, we'd not say "no"!

We're using the Open Source Vanilla platform rather than the paid-for commercial version. As a result, all the plug-ins to provide the functionality are open-source too.

Moving to the commercial version would cost many times what we've managed to raise to date. Many times. And require us to continue to raise that many-times amounts each year for the annual fees. Unless we were to make this a fully commercial forum, that would not be achievable.

That said, we do have a new text editor on the dev site.

All we need now is about 20 man days to implement it fully, write the test scripts, and then run all the system and regression tests on the plethora of devices, OSes and browsers that are used to access the forum ... All for free.

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