I would also consider this a bug. Please create a ticket. A potential fix would involve not calling preventDefault on mousedown/touchdown events unconditionally.
Andreas. On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Marc Jansen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I stumbled upon an IMHO unwanted behaviour in OpenLayers when it is being > accessed with devices that issue touch events (smartphones and tablets both > with iOS or Android): > > When an attribution of a layer contains a link (an <a > href="http://example.com/";>Text</a>) the link does not work, e.g. it does > not follow the links href and does not open the appropriate URL. > > This can easily be observed in the online examples, e.g. here: > http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/osm.html (the link to the osm page is not > functional on touch devices). > > The behaviour can also be observed from mwithin Chrome when the "User-Agent" > setting " Emulate touch events" of the developer toolbar is activated. > > I would consider this behaviour a bug and would like to hear your opinions. > > The IMHO wrong behaviour was introduced after 2.11, as the example > http://dev.openlayers.org/releases/OpenLayers-2.11/examples/osm.html is > working as expected. > > If needed I can file an issue on github. > > Best regards, > Marc > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/openlayers-dev > -- Andreas Hocevar OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/ Expert service straight from the developers. _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/openlayers-dev
