And why would we care about this and why is it posted here

 

From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] 
On Behalf Of Christopher-Mark Gilland
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2015 19:16
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: My I O S 1 Day Challenge, Part 1

 

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 
<mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com> .
To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com 
<mailto: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.

Reply via email to