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I’ve never seen this on my iPhone so can’t troubleshoot much. Have you tried deleting the safari app (long press on app icon) and then re installing it from the App Store?
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According to VB it's not his problem, and it's on Apple to fix it - but LFGSS is the only site where it happens (that I visit), so I'm not entirely certain that Apple gives a shit about it.
I don't think it's a bug.
Or rather, it was a bug that it wasn't focusing previously, but Apple were happy with the behaviour - and that bug has now been 'fixed'.iOS Safari didn't allow a text box to be focused without user input, which was inconsistent with most other browsers. That was raised as a bug in 2019 but Apple said they were going to keep that behaviour...
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195884
We (Apple) like the current behavior and do not want programmatic focus to bring up the keyboard when you do not have a hardware keyboard attached and the programmatic focus was not invoked in response to a user gesture. Why you may ask...because auto bringing up the software keyboard can be seen as annoying and a distraction to a user (not for your customers, but for everyone not using your app) given that:
- We bring up the keyboard, which takes up valuable real estate on screen.
- When we intent to bring up the software keyboard we zoom and scroll the page to give a pleasing input experience (or at least we hope it is pleasing; file bugs if not).
But that changed in recent versions
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=243416
https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/2907Appreciate this is fairly niche as it seems that it's only @Dammit and me experiencing it (happens on both my iPhone and iPad so I'm fairly surprised nobody else seems to be noticing it). But still. It's annoying.
@Velocio - is LFGSS trying to give focus to the page number text box when you navigate via a thread link or previous/next page link? If so, does it have to?
- We bring up the keyboard, which takes up valuable real estate on screen.
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So, almost every time you navigate to anywhere in the site you have to dismiss the keyboard pop-up before doing anything else, which got really annoying months ago.
According to VB it's not his problem, and it's on Apple to fix it - but LFGSS is the only site where it happens (that I visit), so I'm not entirely certain that Apple gives a shit about it.