What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Load main WebAnywhere "Beta" page into Android Firefox (17.0) or Dolphin
Beta (1.2.0 as of 121221)
2. Try to enter a target URL replacing the default page
3.
What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Any time I tap in the field to the right of the "Go" button, I get the
on-screen keyboard and can enter text or paste a URL, but apparently that is a
search on page field. "1356122709504 Uiyu not found - Dolphin.png" shows what
happens if I paste a URL into the search box and tap "Go".
In the "location field text area" to the left of "Go", a tap causes the voice
to say "location field text area", but rarely produces a cursor or keyboard.
Once when I tapped there for the first time in freshly loaded Firefox, I did
get a keyboard, and was able to enter text, but when I tapped "Go" it turned
into the same garbled accented chars I usually get.
I can always long-press for copy/paste, and I can paste my chosen URL, but it
is inserted into the middle of what is already there. I can't find any way to
delete the existing URL (except for the one time I actually got a keyboard).
Whatever is in the location field, it typically ends up as high-ASCII accented
characters when I tap "Go". Frequently the four accented Uiyu chars are all
that show, but sometimes many more high-ASCII chars appear, sometimes around my
pasted URL which stays readable.
I'm attaching several screenshots showing my struggles. Some include error line
numbers and formal error reports.
Also a view of the site I was testing with,
<http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/time-to-be-ashamed/article4214334.ece
> which you will see pasted into the middle of your own URL - just to show it
works.
There is also a strange event where Firefox once said "WebAnywhere ... contains
plugin content..." That was lurking under the page full of error messages. I
hadn't seen it before or since.
What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Your "Beta" version, on Android 2.3.5.
Please provide any additional information below.
I tried both the default "MultiTouch" keyboard and my favorite MessagEase
Keyboard. I don't think there was any significant difference. Firefox seemed to
get farther than Dolphin does, but I tried it more times...
I'm thinking several separate problems:
Tapping the "location field text area" is recognized, but not as a request for
text entry.
Tapping "Go" often changes the "location field text area" to "Uiyu" or other
combination of high-ASCII chars.
Pasting into the "location field text area" should replace whatever is already
there, or at least offer to.
Better would be a way to interact with the Android "share page" mechanism, or a
way to be an "open with" target, but I'm not sure how you would do either.
I'm not (seriously) visually impaired, I'm just trying to find a way to have
web pages read to me while I do manual chores. Typically I get URLs in links on
Twitter, where I have to open them in a browser, copy them, and hopefully paste
them into WebAnywhere. The only other semi-working alternative I've found for
Android is WebPageReader, but your phrasing and accenting is better.
Original issue reported on code.google.com by LorenAme...@gmail.com on 22 Dec 2012 at 4:37
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