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can't get an answer about I pad

by marks2424
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A friend of mine got an I pad a little while ago and said that he can't access any of the drop down menu's on sites he goes to often. This he said almost makes the I pad useless in some cases. He asked me if anyone has an app or program or even a different browser for the I pad that will let him be able do access a drop down menu.

I thought I read something long before he got his I pad talking about a different browser that lets you press and hold a main menu button to get to the drop down pages but I haven't been able to find the article or any other information as to whether there is something that will let someone do this.

I thought since there are many programmers and web type people here that someone might have the information I am looking for. Since I don't have an I pad I really never thought about this and the way I have most of my sites put together you can pretty much get anywhere on then without any restrictions that not being able to mouse over could cause. Thanks for the help. Mark
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  • Profile picture of the author wayfarer
    There is basically no mouseover event on a tablet, since there is no cursor. Since a dropdown menu relies on this, you aren't going to be able to just make it work. It is up to developers to adapt their sites to work on mobile devices. If it doesn't work, the site is either outdated, or they just haven't gotten around to adding mobile/tablet support yet.

    As far as another browser that will allow you to touch or click elements to get a mouseover event to trigger, I'm just not sure. I do know this would be difficult to develop since the only other browsers that Apple allows on their devices are skins built on top of Safari itself. Even stuff like the new Chrome browser for iPad is really just Safari in disguise.
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  • Profile picture of the author hostingandposting
    This may sound stupid and too simple, but have you tried a hard reset on that thing? Mine seems to act up lately and a hard reset seems to fix it.
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  • Profile picture of the author signumdomine
    Originally Posted by marks2424 View Post

    A friend of mine got an I pad a little while ago and said that he can't access any of the drop down menu's on sites he goes to often. This he said almost makes the I pad useless in some cases. He asked me if anyone has an app or program or even a different browser for the I pad that will let him be able do access a drop down menu.

    I thought I read something long before he got his I pad talking about a different browser that lets you press and hold a main menu button to get to the drop down pages but I haven't been able to find the article or any other information as to whether there is something that will let someone do this.

    I thought since there are many programmers and web type people here that someone might have the information I am looking for. Since I don't have an I pad I really never thought about this and the way I have most of my sites put together you can pretty much get anywhere on then without any restrictions that not being able to mouse over could cause. Thanks for the help. Mark
    this is true. ipad i capped with some flash and css/js anymations. Best practivce, if you want to make the website pad friendly, use dynamic css
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  • Profile picture of the author bloodyuber
    Hey marks,

    There is something called "responsive design" in the industry which basically deals with all the compatibility issues. so you wouldn't want to use a drop down menu on a tablet or on your iphone for that matter. So the idea of responsive design is basically to identify the underlying os and give you a different website layout if it is a tablet.

    There are alot of open source projects that were built for solving this. i would start reading about bootstrap:
    Twitter Bootstrap
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