Description: Help me Obishawn Kenobi! You're my only hope!
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Help me Obishawn Kenobi! You're my only hope!
We have an iPad installed in a demonstration area at our company that allows us to control a few items in that area for, as you may have guessed, demonstration purposes. The interface we use for this purpose is an HTML web page that makes various AJAX calls depending on the button you press. The screens were of a very simple design but for some reason this iPad just didn’t seem to be working right. The registering of the button press was hit and miss. This was our demonstration area and this thing neede
The first thing I checked was the code. It’s simple HTML using anchor tags styled to look like iOS buttons. We used anchor tags because they could be styled the way we wanted them to be. The web page is built as an iOS home screen web app and so uses JavaScript to call the web resources for each button. We chose the “click” event of the anchor tag to fire the URL calls. This is pretty standard for web applications. The code seemed to be written right and we confirmed there were no HTML validation erro