Entering edit mode on IText on iOS 8.4 dismisses keyboard immediately

[partlyhuman]

You can repro this on the Kitchensink demo. Safari on iOS 8.3 works flawlessly. Safari on iOS 8.4 shows and dismisses the keyboard in rapid succession much of the time. If you try it enough times, occasionally the keyboard will stay up. I've attempted programmatically focusing the hidden textfield but this seems to have no effect now(??) This is pretty broken, just appeared on a site we just launched. Ouch.

[partlyhuman]

Actually I now believe this has less to do with iOS version and more to do with responsiveness of the site and speed of your device. I was tricked because my iOS 8.3 device was a faster iPad, 8.4 an iPhone 5; I believe the keyboard will dismiss if something, not sure what, doesn't happen quickly after the hidden textarea is created. Seems like on the faster devices it's more likely to stick around, but on slower devices the keyboard has a habit of auto-dismissing. One hint was that if you hold down your touch briefly, you can more effectively bring up the keyboard. When I mulled this over, I suspected the delayed click event on touch devices, and in fact, adding in fastclick.js appeared to solve this problem on the slower devices. Honestly I have only an inkling of the source of this error but maybe my experience will help someone else.

[Stefanoviic]

@partlyhuman did you found a fix for this already?

edit: fastclick.js did the fix for me!

[partlyhuman]

I think we ended up using fastclick.js too.