IPAD events

[Willy]

We are experiencing difficulties with inline javascript and oher events such as selecting text on the IPAD.
a typical problem on the IPAD is not firing a onClick handler or handler on a href <a href="javascript:...
In some cases, after many clicks, it does seem to work, feels like something is blocking the event.

When hooking events with Jquery

$("a.enlargePicture").on("click touchstart", function (e)

{
//do something.

e.preventDefault();
});

it seems to work fine.

Is there a way to get around this?

[Alexander Valchev]

Hi Willy,

Which KendoUI version are you using? If it is an outdated one, try upgrading to the Kendo UI Q3 service pack (v2012.3.1315) or newer. 

The original Kendo UI Q3 release had some issues with the touch/mouse events due to the major change we did in event handling in order to support systems with both mouse and touch (Chrome/FF on Windows 8).

Regards,
Alexander Valchev
the Telerik team

[Willy]

Thank you for your response,

We are using Kendo UI Complete v2012.3.1412, IPAD 5.1.1
Safari on the IPAD 6.1 handles text selection and button events well.

The best way to illustrate the problem on the IPAD is trying to select any text in the splitter demo:
splitter demo

Works on IPAD 6.1, but not on versions below.

We have a workaround for button events, our main concern is selecting text.

[Alexander Valchev]

Hi Willy,

Thank you for the additional information.
I was able to reproduce the problem connected with text selection on device with iOS 5.1.1. We will log this as a bug and will try to fix it as soon as possible. Please accept my apology for the inconvenience caused.

Regards,
Alexander Valchev
the Telerik team

[Willy]

Hi,

Is there any progress on this issue?

Regards,

Willy

[Alex Gyoshev]

Hello Willy,

We have been investigating the issue for quite some time now. So far, we have been able to find a solution for splitters with non-resizable panes (i.e. ones that are either fixed or collapsible, but not resizable); the fix will land in the next internal build. We cannot confirm that there is a solution for resizable panes yet.

Greetings,
Alex Gyoshev
the Telerik team