So guys, maybe I am a bit of an extremest, however I have decided to take a major challenge upon myself. So many people have said that I O S is at a point where it could almost serve as a production based computer setup for some people. I decided, techy as I am, to take this challenge and see if that is really the case for my daily lifestyle. Does it mean that I am going to use I O S exclusively from this point forward, and never use a computer again? Hell! no! All I'm saying is, I wanted to really truely give the mobile world a fair chance, and really take it to the extreme.
Therefore, for the next 24 hours, I am trying to stay off my pc as much as humanly possible. Obviously, if a customer of mine needs something done that I find isn't working with I O S, then I'll hop on my mac or my PC, and get it done, but even then, I won't do so unless it winds up being a very very last resort. I really am open-minded about wanting to try this and really see if I truely can manage with only a mobile device, be it my IPhone, or my IPad to do this. This said, here is the first challenge I've hit. I know that being you all won't be able to see what I'm seeing first hand, it's going to make things a bit difficult, but trust me when I say, this was a nightmare! I am running a droplet on Digital Ocean of UBuntu 14.04 64 bit, Server. On here, I have followed the instructions posted by Nerd Vittles and have installed Asterisk's Incredible PBX. Tonight, I wanted to add an entry to my main company IVR. So, I grabbed my IPad, and went to the FreePBX admin web interface. I have IPTables installed locking it down to my IP address, so even if I was to give you all the URL to go to, it wouldn't work for you guys. Just take my word for this. The page loaded just fine, but first off, I saw the link on this page to log into the ISynthany server, if I had one configured, which I don't. I also saw the button to load the user panel login screen. When I double tapped on this button however, I was presented with a page telling me that Safari was unable to connect. I know this is baloni, as both my windows PC, as well as all 3 of my macs can connect with absolutely no problem to that page. So, I backed myself out, back to the main FreePBX page, and proceeded to look for the link/button to log into the admin panel. Try as I may however, the link was nowhere to be found. I know where the link should be on the page, but neither touch exploration nor flicking would focus it. Now, to be fair, let me say this. I do not know if the link was visibly there on the screen. If I had to guess based on my touch exploration, I'd say it probably most likely wasn't, but again, let's be totally fair. I cannot prove this one way or another. I turned off, and back on Voiceover, which did entirely no good. I also tried using my item chooser list, which yielded nothing. Finally, at my whit's end, I turned my rotor to links, and found nothing, buttons, and found nothing, and even form controls, and found nothing. I tried this both with, and without a bluetooth keyboard. So needless to say, either the way that site is scripted/coded is just very very! nonstandard, or Safari is just having a major fit with this web admin interface. Is this real common that you'll see web pages on the mobile side of things not render well? I even went so far as to click the icon that said show full site, but that had no effect accessibility wise. Is there maybe another little trick I could try? Yes, guilty as charged, I broke my challenge in this one case. I didn't have a choice being this was business related, and urgently had to be done. So, I just hopped on my mac and did it. That really has sucked the fun out of me though, as man! I was so! looking forward to that working, and me being able to be really impressed. Unfortunately, not the case here. Chris. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
