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ToeBee 02-23-2011 02:32 PM

Improve mobile usability by specifying number input fields
 
Use type="number" on the milage and gallons HTML input fields.

Using type="number" instead of type="text" in the input form elements would make (some) smartphone browsers automatically bring up a numerical keyboard instead of the default qwerty keyboard when entering these numeric values. This should be a tiny tweak and would result in a very noticeable improvement to mobile usability. Here is a good overview of various such options available in HTML:

https://diveintohtml5.org/forms.html#type-number

mathowie 02-23-2011 03:11 PM

Yeah, we had this in the last version of the mobile client (on an iPhone it always popped up with digits), I suspect our recent move to jQueryMobile changed that and we'll fix it up soon.

pb 02-23-2011 09:33 PM

No, we already use type=number. That didn't change.

What device are you using ToeBee? Does it support HTML5?

luebster 02-24-2011 12:53 AM

Actually, you're using type="text".

pb 02-24-2011 03:42 AM

Are you looking at Fuelly Mobile on a mobile device?

luebster 02-25-2011 12:58 AM

working now...that was weird. (Nexus One, in case you were wondering)

Thanks!

pb 02-25-2011 02:35 AM

Took a look yesterday and we were only using type=number for iPhones. So I expanded it to other mobile clients—like I thought we were doing already. Sorry about that.

ToeBee 02-26-2011 12:13 PM

Works like a charm now on my Galaxy S! Thanks.

tomierna 03-28-2011 10:27 PM

Can you expand this support to iPad users? I don't think I'm getting the mobile version fwiw.

pb 03-29-2011 02:15 AM

tomierna, are you going to m.fuelly.com?


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