Why does CodeMirror not work on Ipad ?

Question

Greetings,

http://marijn.haverbeke.nl/codemirror/jstest.html works on Safari on PC, but not on an Ipad. Which is a shame, since I wanted to use it for an app. My question is not only why does it not work, but how should I go about analyzing things that break on Ipad Safari ?

T.

Answer 1

The editor in CodeMirror is actually an iframe, and not a native text input form element. The problem here I suspect is that the browser on the iPad does not know if the keyboard should be activated because some DOM element has key events bound to it.

To do that, Safari would have to analyze the source code to deduce key bindings and when should the keyboard be activated - which sound hugely problematic to me.