[Xerte-dev] Re: Food for thought or wishlist

[Pat @ Pgogy]

Or just set a mobile CSS that doesn't show any folders?


On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Julian Tenney <
Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> Often in a tree there are two icons, the ‘folder’, and the little ‘+’ next
> to it for opening / closing it, but yes, to be addressed when we try and
> get the editor all HTML friendly.
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> *From:* xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *
> thomas.rochford at jiscadvance.ac.uk
> *Sent:* 11 November 2013 21:44
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Food for thought or wishlist
>
>
>
> Good evening,
>
>
>
> I’ve been thinking about (and dealing with) the problem of double-clicking
> on Mobile/Handheld devices. The browsers don’t support this and interpret
> the double-click (especially when opening or collapsing Workspace
> Folders) as two consecutive clicks which  may zoom the page or have other
> less desirable effects.
>
>
>
> The front page opens up perfectly in Firefox on an Android device.
> However, if you want to get at a file in a folder, e.g. to preview it or
> get the URL from the properties, you can’t and the folders appear to be
> ’collapsed’  by default. The problems of double-clicking on handheld
> devices are well documented on Google and there are a number of
> workarounds, including the use of a ‘long press’, but to my mind the
> simplest way might be to make the icon separately clickable so that tapping
> it with change the state from closed to open or vice-versa. it might also
> be worth considering whether the adjust the icon to show the current or
> potential state. Selecting the title of the folder would then be equivalent
> to Selecting the Folder.
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> I feel this is a problem that will need to be solved anyway as XoT moves
> towards an HTML-compliant editor.
>
>
>
> Kindest Regards,
> Thomas
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