[BlueOnyx:08018] Re: Admin GUI via IPAD

[Stephanie Sullivan]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Stauber [mailto:mstauber at blueonyx.it]
> Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 5:59 PM
> To: BlueOnyx General Mailing List
> Subject: [BlueOnyx:08016] Re: Admin GUI via IPAD
> 
> Hi Stephanie,
> 
> > Not so fast - I have a client with a droid 2 who has the login page
> refresh
> > every 10 seconds or so when trying to access the server's gui login
> using
> > the default browser. This doesn't happen with firefox or opera. I
> am
> > getting frustrated trying to resolve this issue - I can't see the
> page
> > source as the browser does not seem to let you see the source on
> droid, so
> > I can't tell what is actually being rendered. ARGH!
> 
> Hard to say. I don't have any droid device. But yeah, I just tested
> the BX GUI
> on an iPhone and I think I can see what the problem is. Yet I have no
> idea how
> to fix it. Can't see much on the rinky-dinky small screen anyway and
> likewise
> there is no "show source" option.
> 
> All in all it's probably a JavaScript issue. We've had a fair share
> of these
> in the past just between IE, Firefox and Opera. And there are no
> special
> provisions in our code as of yet that deal with the highly tailored
> browsers
> of mobile devices.
> 
> --
> With best regards
> 
> Michael Stauber

Yup. I agree with the JavaScript assessment. What I don't see is how such a
problem would work. I mean, I don't see how the code in the page would cause
a 10 second page refresh. And about debugging browser issues on a phone -
AhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhH! The only think I saw that might would be a bit of
code that checked for the browser to be Netscape. That seems a bit unlikely.

The workaround I found that worked on the droid that was best: install
Opera, next best: install firefox.

It (on some further observation) seems the login.php refresh seems to happen
when I start to type into a form field. I'm still not seeing how this can be
triggered...