Scrolling an AW Message using iPad

Safari on the iPad doesn't support the scrollbars.

The best suggestion I have for responding to long posts, is to tap Quote, then Select the post, and respond using Email or another app. You can copy and paste the Quote tags.

If you're using a BlueTooth keyboard, some have cursor / arrow keys which allow you to navigate.

FOTSGreg said:

I'm having trouble when i'm trying to reply to a message here on AW using my iPad. There doesn't seem to be a way to scroll down beyond a certain point in the submission window so I can respond to certain other points in the comment.

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The problem is you can't scroll down in the text area for the reply? Brush the text area with two fingers instead of one. I can scroll all the way down with that method.

This is a problem with several DHTML editors -- notably vBulletin's -- which don't work quite right under mobile versions of WebKit. (MobileSafari, Android Browser, WebOS Browser... all different branches of the same web browser source.)

You can tap-and-hold or double-finger-scroll to try and scroll within the editbox, but it doesn't always work on vBulletin for some reason. (Which is annoying, since it works on Invision and phpBB 100% of the time; it's apparently something in vBulletin's javascript.) As noted, a Bluetooth keyboard is about the only guaranteed-effective way around it for an iOS device. (On an Android device, you have the option of using the d-pad or scrollball/optical selector. Or the cursor keys on a Palm Pre/Pixi. iOS has no physical cursor keys unless you connect an external keyboard, however.)

vBulletin does have a third-party option called 'ForumRunner' to make boards more accessible to iPad users -- it's a module you install on the bboard that lets the content be read entirely as XML, and then displayed in a 'ForumRunner' mobile application using native controls rather than webpages. I'm not sure the admins would be amenable to installing that here, though, since I don't know how it works with password-protected stuff like the SYW forums.

AlexPiper said:

vBulletin does have a third-party option called 'ForumRunner' to make boards more accessible to iPad users -- it's a module you install on the bboard that lets the content be read entirely as XML, and then displayed in a 'ForumRunner' mobile application using native controls rather than webpages. I'm not sure the admins would be amenable to installing that here, though, since I don't know how it works with password-protected stuff like the SYW forums.

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ForumRunner is a huge security problem; we won't be installing it.

Medievalist said:

ForumRunner is a huge security problem; we won't be installing it.

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I sort of suspected as much. I haven't looked in depth at it, but a first-glance made us turn away from installing it on the vBulletin-based customer support forum at work for a variety of reasons.

FOTSGreg said:

Well I'll be Haggis' diseased old butt monkey - the two-finger method seems to work just fine.

Just nobody tell Haggis I said anything, okay?

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For a moment there, I wondered if I had a special magic iPad and it only worked for me... so I'm glad it worked for someone else too.

It doesn't work all the time--there's a known bug with the way the pixels are counted.

If you are replying to a post with a very long quote, it can freeze.

Apple has acknowledged that it's a javascript interpretation and corrected it in ios 4.2

So they say . . .