I found this issue last night during yesterday's testing freeze. I noticed on
the iPad (iOS V.4.3.5) the horizontal sliders, used to adjust font-size and
line height, are unusable to the touch interface. And in using it, in that
environment, two alternatives presented themselves.
The first, rather obviously is typing a value in the text box. As a new user
how would I know what increments to use. I realize It says "times" beside the
box, but my first inclination, no matter how irrational, is to use whole
numbers. It's really clumsy for me cos it's hard for me to get the cursor
active in the box after the number. The iPad is extremely frustrating in that
way. There are no arrow keys to fine tune where the cursor lands. And the
cursor never lands where I want. It's more a usability issue than a programming
one. But you should know.
But the other solution introduced yet another issue. When I touch to the right
of the font size slider (on the line), towards the side that represents the
largest font size, you know since I can't grab the handle of the slider to move
it, the font actually gets smaller. Where as the line spacing slider, when used
in this manner, doesn't work at all, to adjust the values I mean. But if I use
the first method first, for the font size at least, all other actions I perform
with the font size slider subsequently work as they should. Until I reload the
page. Then right back to the start. The line height slider doesn't work at all.
Figured you should know, despite the current testing freeze...
Johnny
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