Hey man, why not make a larger challenge? Try using IOS exclusively for 1 week. Good luck. I’d love to hear your experiences.
> On Aug 24, 2015, at 10:15 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland > <clgillan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. -- 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.
