By AppleBag on

Hey all,

I was getting some reports from users that they are able to do pretty much everything on my drupal site (post to a shoutbox, reply to private messages, etc.) but are unable to post an actual comment in the forums. So I borrowed an iPod Touch and tested it myself. They are correct; for some reason the comment box to type in isn't recognized as a place to type apparently, like all the other edit areas are. I'm currently using Garland as the theme if it makes a difference. Anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this?

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asinnema’s picture

asinnema commented

I'm not a techie, but I have no problems at all on my ipod. Perhaps the edit box is blocked by some kind of (z-dimension) overlay?
Can you try a different theme and see what happens?

asinnema’s picture

asinnema commented

I'm back and I think I know what the problem is. I got the same issue when I installed the shoutbox module and configured it to auto-refresh. When it would 'refresh', and the iphone would load it like any other browser, the rest of the page would be 'out of reach'.

So in less broken english ;) Turn off auto-refresh and I think that should solve it. :)

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anthonylicari commented

I wouldn't think of it in terms of if Drupal works on a mobile device. That's like saying "Will Drupal work on Internet Explorer?" If you have some basic knowledge of Drupal my recommendation would be to install some sort of script or module that detects mobile browsers and have the user redirected to a subdomain such as m.yoursite.com

Have that subdomain be a multisite that is sharing the same tables as the main site, then you can theme the subdomains content to be however you want while making it nice and readable for users entering content on their phones.

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AppleBag commented

Hi

For me it seems to be a problem with FCKEditor. When disabling the editor, I am able to type into the box again. :)