herman.wong wrote:

hmmm. tried using event.stopPropagation on the search field (searchParam input)
and on the search bar (mainHeader div) but the click/touch event still
activates on the image underneath the search area.

herman.wong wrote:

https://github.com/nitobi/Wikipedia/commit/d92b124b28f162746fba3ba8c8de37887cfa3c32

seems to do the fix this issue, but has a slight side effect where the keyboard hides after the 1st character is typed...

updated link from last comment:
https://github.com/Wikimedia/WikipediaMobile/commit/d92b124b28f162746fba3ba8c8de37887cfa3c32

philinje wrote:

Is this fixed? Seems to be gone in RC2.

Was very intermittently reproducable when I was checking it out a few days ago.

This seems to be (mostly?) resolved by this bit in android/platform.js's onDeviceReady:

// this disables the "click-through" of an image under the search bar - but hides the keyboard only on the first character typed...
$('#searchParam').bind('touchstart', function () {     
    $('#searchParam').focus();
    plugins.SoftKeyBoard.show();
    return false; 
} );

However, that appears to be the cause of bug (mumble muble -- there appear to be at least two of them) -- with the focus ring / cursor not appearing on their own when tapping into the search bar.

We have some related issues with the 'W' and search icons -- is there a separate bug for em we can't find? :)

Related issues should be solved by the move over to divs.