Question about message boards with the iPad

[aimeeinohio]

With my little iPod Touch, I can read the mseeage boards for school, but I cannot post. Will I have the same issue with the iPad?

 

[Donny Jepp]

What do you mean you can't post?

 

[deeddawg]

Tough to say with no more info than you've given about why you can't post from your iPod touch.

I'm posting this from my iPad.

 

[aimeeinohio]

If I click on a post to respond, the post opens but they key board doesn't appear.
I don;t see anything on the site about the message board being Flash or anything like that.

 

[nmills]

If I click on a post to respond, the post opens but they key board doesn't appear.
I don;t see anything on the site about the message board being Flash or anything like that.

That has happened to me a couple times on my iPhone. I just restart my phone and then it works fine.
Have you tried a reboot?

 

[Donny Jepp]

You have to press the text field and make it active to bring up the keyboard. Also make sure Bluetooth is off

 

[class77]

There are some message boards that you simply can't post on. I know I subscribe to one and I can read if fine, but I cannot post on if from my iPad

 

[wolfpackfan]

No problems at all using the iPad with message boards. In fact this was posted from my iPad.

 

[EazyWeazy3]

Posting from my iPad while laying down in bed watching Machete.

Damn, I love this thing.

 

[Sydde]

I have made hundreds of posts with iPod Touch and iPad here and never had that sort of problem. I only occasionally have a problem coming back to Safari after following a YouTube link, when Safari fails to handle its screen view properly: I get the toolbar, and the progress bar shows the page loading, but nothing ever appears; when I tap the page (tabs) button, most of the screen appears white, except for what was under the toolbar. Quitting and restarting Safari usually fixes that.

 

[sinalot]

I wish the pagination links in the forum were larger in front size. I quite often hit the wrong page link due to my large fingers.

 

[EssentialParado]

Message boards work on iPad but i really wish websites (this one in particular) would implement iPad optimized forums and buttons etc. some of the things you press are so small I often press the wrong thing (I.e., skipping to a certain page of a thread.)

 

[dukeblue91]

Message boards work on iPad but i really wish websites (this one in particular) would implement iPad optimized forums and buttons etc. some of the things you press are so small I often press the wrong thing (I.e., skipping to a certain page of a thread.)

Really I just pinch and zoom to the size I need and move on, it's almost natural now.

 

[Q-Dog]

There is one forum I frequent that has issues with the iPad, but several others I have no problems. So, it is probably something in the coding on that forum.

 

[blackNBUK]

I have made hundreds of posts with iPod Touch and iPad here and never had that sort of problem. I only occasionally have a problem coming back to Safari after following a YouTube link, when Safari fails to handle its screen view properly: I get the toolbar, and the progress bar shows the page loading, but nothing ever appears; when I tap the page (tabs) button, most of the screen appears white, except for what was under the toolbar. Quitting and restarting Safari usually fixes that.

I get this problem quite often too, hopefully Apple will fix it soon as it's starting to become annoying.

I wish the pagination links in the forum were larger in front size. I quite often hit the wrong page link due to my large fingers.

I'd like to see this too; it's not as though it would be difficult for macrumors to detect when a touch device is being used and bump the font size for the page numbers up a bit.

 

[aimeeinohio]

I did try turning the touch off and on again, and no go...But some other boards I visit work fine. So I suppose I'd better try it on an iPad before I decide....School is again the deciding factor!

 

[Sydde]

I'd like to see this too; it's not as though it would be difficult for macrumors to detect when a touch device is being used and bump the font size for the page numbers up a bit.

Actually, I have to disagree with this in principle. It is a nuisance, but the problem is not MacRumors fault, it is the fault of iOS and Safari. If we were offered text magnification as a very accessible global view option, that would be quite helpful, but really, if a browser could detect a situation where a bunch ofnlinks are clustered together, it should just give us some sort of magnifier like the text field selector for disambiguating which link we are trying to hit.