iPad questions

[jay.l.fisher]

We're trying out our SmartGWT app on an iPad and have a couple of issues.

1) Field error messages depend on being able to hover over the error icon to see the error text. How can this be accomplished on the iPad?

2) Using the iPad simulator that comes with xCode most things seem to work well. But when accessing the same app with an actual iPad, Safari crashes shortly after logging in to our app. Is there an error log or something we can look at on the actual device to see what is causing the crash?

[atomatom]

One pretty fabulous tool for remote browser debugging is wiener (uh, mispelled because that's how the Nitobi boys pronounce it) :

* http://phonegap.github.com/weinre/
* http://debug.phonegap.com/ - this is a hosted version of it, easier to try out

[Isomorphic]

1) if you use the Mobile skin, it switches to inline display automatically (as well as changing lots of other things, like sizes of components, to be more touch friendly)

2) the Developer Console actually works on mobile, but you'll need to create a button to trigger it (by executing $wnd.isc.showConsole() in JSNI). There is also a rudimentary error display you can enable in Safari settings.

Let us know if you get more information on the device-but-not-emulator crash, thankfully we've never seen one of those, and always tracked any such problem to an iOS version difference or other legitimate environment difference.