iOS: Multi-select using long click doesn't work

[adan89lion]

Hi,

I’ve recently switched my workflow from macOS to iPadOS, and encountered multi-selecting issues with Safari on mobile devices.

Step to reproduce:

1. Open PhotoPrism instance on iOS, with Safari or Chrome [1]
2. Open Review tab (or photo stream, or any album)
3. Select the first image
4. Long press the last image to make a selection
5. Doesn't select images, but shows out text selection frame

Expected behaviour:
Make a selection from the first selected image to the long pressed image.

What went wrong?
It calls out Safari’s text selector

Did it work before?
It works perfectly on Android’s Chromium based browsers (tested on Chrome, Brave and Samsung Internet) and Fennec. This issue does not apply to desktop based systems (since we use Shift and Control to select massively)

Other notes:
N/A

[1] Browsers on iOS / iPadOS are all using WebKit, so any browser will have the same issue.

[lastzero]

Might be handling DOM / JS events differently. Needs to be debugged and fixed in this case.

[lastzero]

Just ordered an iPad so that I can test this properly:

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[lastzero]

On Fri, 15 Jan 2021, 22:28 ***@***.*** wrote: Have you been heard about Browserstack? 😃 https://www.browserstack.com/list-of-browsers-and-platforms/live

Browserstack is not a UX testing tool, and also not completely free from what I remember.

[lastzero]

Browserstack is $468 per year minimum with iOS & Android devices, so about the same price except we don't get an actual device to test with.

[alexislefebvre]

(I removed my previous comment shortly after posting it, I thought it wasn't heplful, and you proved it)

[lastzero]

No worries 🌈 iPad should arrive tomorrow so that I can test all issues and hopefully fix them! No iOS device anymore since I switched to Huawei because of the excellent camera. Using a simulator is not the same by any standard.

[lastzero]

Let us know if this works for you :)

Maybe @benmccann can have a second look at event handling 👀

[benmccann]

I'm not on iOS either, so can't really test. BrowserStack will give free accounts for open source if it's helpful. I have one with all the bells and whistles

[lastzero]

I'm not on iOS either, so can't really test. BrowserStack will give free accounts for open source if it's helpful. I have one with all the bells and whistles

Saw that. Probably takes a couple of days until we may get approved. Even then, it's a tool for testing - not for UX optimization. Need the real experience. Feels much better now.

Don't 100% like how click and touch events are mixed, also not sure if there are edge cases when multiple fingers are being used. Anyhow, major improvement to what we had before.