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Seems that my phone doesnt recognize the existance of the forum dropdown, sort of. I click the forum button and the menu is displayed, but when i click on an item inside that menu, it doesnt recognize the menu and instead clicks the website banner behind it. This is a bit frustrating because the only touch navigation i have is back to the homepage.

After further review, it seems that if i click on a link in the dropdown menu that is below the banner, that link functions correctly, however even when my fat finger hits the zoomed in dead center of the dropdown menu that overlaps the banner, the banner wins.

EDIT scratch that, the dropdown wins but only if i zoom it in uber rediculously close. Is there any way the dropdown can be disabled on mobile so that clicking the forum button at the top takes the user right to the forum index?

Same happening on my iphone.

I have an Android phone (HTC Desire Z) and I'm aware of the issue. For me, the zooming in thing works.

It definitely ain't right and it's on the list.

graphic wrote:Is there any way the dropdown can be disabled on mobile so that clicking the forum button at the top takes the user right to the forum index?

It'd be nice, but detecting it reliably is a swine. By reliably I mean getting every mobile device and not getting any non-mobile.

The buttons at the top should be links in their own right, and will be when I get a chance to look at this again. The reason they aren't is... so you can have any kind of sub-menu at all on a touch screen.

There are touch-specific events (ontouchstart, etc.) in Android at least, can't remember whether the iphone offered them or not offhand, but they just plain didn't work - either they never fired, or they fired after the click, or something dumb that made them useless. It's an evil little problem.

This week's happy coding fun time is brought to you by PayPal, but if I ever get to the end of that and nothing else is pressing I'll take a look at this again then.

My quick fix is to click on the forum link on the recent post brick.

Been doing some thinking about this one, and I've come up with a hack that seems to work for Android. Un(?)fortunately I can't get my hands on an iPhone to test with, but from what I can see, it should work there as well. Essentially, it involves swapping out the traditional submenus with an invisible drop-down list (<select> tag) and positioning it over the main menu button; both Android and iPhone have really good device-specific ways of handling those, and this feels like a reasonable approach.

I've got my plate full with more pressing NAS stuff at the moment, and with trying to undo 9hrs of jet-lag, but wanted you to know I haven't forgotten this issue.

ShanwickOceanic wrote:I've got my plate full with more pressing NAS stuff at the moment, and with trying to undo 9hrs of jet-lag, but wanted you to know I haven't forgotten this issue.

Yeah Yeah Yeah Smoke and Mirrors. Welcome back. Now where's mah damned Spock avatar?

GQfluffy wrote:Yeah Yeah Yeah Smoke and Mirrors. Welcome back. Now where's mah damned Spock avatar?

Your question is not logical.

I just uploaded the code for these menus. What I haven't done is rename the relevant file, so your browser may or may not pick it up yet, depending on settings. I'm gonna test it for a day or so, and if there are no issues I'll do it properly... otherwise I'll roll it back. It seems to be OK for me right now.

It should detect Android, iPhone and iPad devices as touch-screen, and do some sekrit jiggery-pokery to give you a more usable "sub-menu".

Non-touch devices should get the menus as they were before - but the top-level "Forum" and "Photos" should now be clickable. (If not, hit Ctrl-F5 to pick up the changes.)

This is now up and running properly, with the files renamed, so everything should pick it up.

I'd particularly like to hear from iPad and iPhone users as to whether the sub-menus work for them.

Sweet! Works great on both my Android smartphone and my Android tablet. Can't comment on the iPhone, though - should I send Klaus a message?

Works well on the iPad.

Zak wrote:Can't comment on the iPhone, though

Tried it out on my iPod Touch (iOS 4.2.3.infinity and beyond) and it works well there too!

Zak wrote:should I send Klaus a message?

If you do, you'd just get a long winded response telling you how you did it wrong, despite the fact that it works.

Works great on my android phone!

Not sure if this is related, but I've had this going on for a while now when I zoom in on the iphone and ipad. The links still work as intended, though. And sorry, I don't know how to attach the pictures in a non-huge way.

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PM Klaus for help

BaylorAirBear wrote:Not sure if this is related, but I've had this going on for a while now when I zoom in on the iphone and ipad. The links still work as intended, though.

Doctor, Doctor, it hurts when I do this!
Then stop doing it!



I was afraid something like that might happen - the combination of limited width and both fixed and absolute positioning made it all but certain that something would screw it up - but at least it's still functional. Without an iOS device to test on (and I'm not about to rush out and buy one ), it'll be pretty hard to nail that down. I'll add it to the list, but it'll likely be some time before I can get a proper fix in.

Thanks for letting me know.

When you say "work as intended", the forum and photos links give you a list of sub-menu options? or just take you to the relevant index page?

PS You're holding it wrong.