XenForo Bug: Post Reactions (iOS)

[Black Hole]

I'm finding it very difficult / impossible to select a post reaction other than "like" in iOS. The long touch required to bring up the list of reaction emojis also selects the Like button text, and (I'm guessing) prevents the reaction emojis being clicked.

 

[EEPhil]

I've had this problem a few times on an Android phone using the Vivaldi browser (if that matters). However, when trying the "like" just now there was no such problem.

 

[Black Hole]

Aha! I've found there is a critical length of touch which isn't a tap (which would just "like"), invokes the options, but is not long enough to select the text. Perhaps this is more of an iOS bug than a XenForo bug.

(My "haha" reaction on the post above was a test)

 

[EEPhil]

A little bit if experimentation on the phone gives the same result for Android. Tap = like, tap just a little bit too long and the browser pops up a "save" menu on top of the emojis, somewhere in-between and the emoji menu pops up. Time it just wrong and I get a fleeting glance of the emojis and then they vanish. It doesn't seem to behave consistently. Not sure whether the problem is XenForo, the browser, or the idiot with the fat fingers and failing eyesight trying to press the right "buttons"!

Edit: One possibility with the above is that the phone has accessibility settings - touch and hold delay. It looks as though it makes a difference - at least with the "save" menu appearance.

 

[Black Hole]

I don't understand how this is supposed to work. Tap is obvious, that's like a mouse left-click. In a browser, hold should provide the same action as a hover or a right-click. However, it seems the mobile OS is also monitoring for hold and reacting to it as meaning "select this text" – which is pretty inappropriate when the text has right-click functionality in a web browser.

Therefore, I think there is a race condition between the interval the OS allows for text selection and the interval the browser is responding to a hold as right-click.

In my accessibility settings I already have the hold time as "long" rather than "short".

 

[EEPhil]

In my accessibility settings I already have the hold time as "long" rather than "short".

I had medium. Long prevents the inadvertent "save" menu, but is a nuisance most of the time (other apps etc) so I went back to medium.

Quick research (so may not be accurate) suggests hold=right-click on touch screens. Hover doesn't exist unless the web designer fudges it in some way.

 

[MymsMan]

One of these features designed by nimble fingered youngsters with little sympathy for the those with less able to manage the proximity of keyboard buttons and differences of tap lengths