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[investigating] iOS bug in Skills menu

I haven't had access to a PC or Mac for a while, so I've been learning skills via my iPad. (Who's addicted?) There is a bug on (at least) the iPad 2 with iOS 4.3.3.

Go to the Glitch skills web page. Click on a skill icon. A yellowish popup appears that tells you about the skill but doesn't give you a button to learn the skill. Persistent tapping on the skill icon will also bring up another popup, this one larger and white, with a bluish central stripe. It also tells you about the skill, but this one has a button that says (something like) "Learn this skill now." 

I wonder if one of these is left over from a previous code base and shouldn't be invoked now? In any case, the one with the button often appears *under* the yellowish one, with the button barely visible. So that's, you know, not ideal.

Posted 19 months ago by Plurp Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • This is actually a little more complicated. Each box at the top of the skill page (or skill icon) has two important functions. The first is called when you mouseover the box. The second is called when you click on the box. On iPads (and maybe other iDevices), the first time you tap the skills box, it is treated as a mouseover. The second time, it is treated as a click. You won't notice this on, say, a link, because there is no mouseover function.

    Anyway, when the box is tapped a second time, the yellow description thing persists, instead of disappearing. Additionally, it stays on top of the larger infobox that shows up when you tap the icon a second time.
    Posted 19 months ago by Edward Subscriber! | Permalink