[BlueOnyx:08020] Re: Admin GUI via IPAD

[Jeffrey Pellin]

Steph and all,

I have been using Droid phones and tablets for admin for well over a year
now.

You are quite right that the problem is with the Javascript - there is a
very easy workaround (so easy I'd forgotten that I do it!).

Very simply, what I do is:

With the browser open select menu/more/settings and turn off javascript.

Go to the BO admin and enter the username and password but don't log in.

Back to menu/more/settings and turn javascript back on.

Click login and presto you are working in the Admin gui.

I really ought to have a look at the Javascript on the admin home page to
see why this happens, but it seems to be pretty much across all the devices
and Droid versions I have tried. Maybe it's the same on the iPad too?

Have fun.

Jeffrey





On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 19:31:36 -0400, "Stephanie Sullivan" <ses at aviaweb.com>
wrote:
>> -----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...
> 
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