On my last post I focused on issues that I’ve found a solution, this one is going to be about bugs and issues that I couldn’t find a solution and/or things that are impossible to do on the iPhone and iPad. It is important to note that I didn’t spent too much time searching or trying to find solutions for each problem but I consider most of them to be impossible to solve without a new OS release…
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I’ve been delaying this post since I wrote a rant about the iPad. The delay is mainly because I never found time to create sample files or record screencasts showing the bugs so I decided to publish it without any working examples since I don’t think I will have enough time or patience to isolate the problems and document it anytime soon, so you will have to believe that what I’m saying “is true” and that the bugs exist… Think of it as a reference in case you have any of those issues and not as a definitive way of making those things work, some bugs are only present on older versions of iOS and may not be easy to replicate. I’m sure I will leave a lot of important stuff behind but at least I’ll try to cover some bugs and how I solved them. I will try to be brief.
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Ok, I know that writing this post is probably a bad idea but I will do it anyway, please note that this is my personal opinion and not from any company/client I work or worked for and that I respect other people’s opinions (that doesn’t mean I agree with them), I know that some things I’m going to write are going to sound arrogant and that some people are going to get it wrong… please try to keep your emotions aside and think rationally before getting into a conclusion and read the about page to understand the objective of this blog. I don’t want to start a flame war and remember that every person/project has different needs, my perspective and the kind of stuff I’m currently building may be completely different from your needs/desires/preferences… Having that said….
I had plans to do something similar for while, was just starting a new mobile project that would require some basic JavaScript and since I saw that Thomas Fuchs was starting to do it too I thought that “combining forces” we could build something better and I would spend less time on it, specially since everything he does get some pretty big attention on the JS community, which means more people to help.. (since time is a really scarce resource nowadays)
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Today I saw on Peter-Paul Koch blog that event delegation for click events on <div> elements doesn’t work properly on the iPhone. Strangely enough, I’ve implemented it 4 days ago (as you can see on this commit) without ever experiencing any kind of problem, that made me insanely curious/scared, specially since I wasn’t doing anything special/different than him and I couldn’t understand what I was doing right/wrong…
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