Drag & Drop does not work on iPad - temporal order is not correct
Hi.
Great plugin. Thanks a lot for the work you put in.
I'm currently travelling round the world and use it on my blog to show where I am. I'm equipped with an iPad and my concern is partly related to this device.
I cannot use the drag & drop functionality on my iPad to reorder the locations. The drag&drop code is probably for mouse usage only. In order for it to work on the ipad you have to handle the touch events specifically, which are by default mapped to the scroll behavior.
This problem would actually be irrelevant, if the temporal order of the locations (as established by arrival date) would be considered strictly with the to and from parameters set to dates.
A quick example:
Location 1, 2012-01-01
Location 2, 2012-01-03
Location 3, 2012-01-02
In the map, the lines are connected in order of this list and not in temporal order, although I used the date for the to and from parameters.
As I can't reorder the entries, I would have to delete and re-add many entries, if I wanted to insert a location somewhere inbetween.
It would be great, if you find the time to tackle one of those problems (the latter being more important as it renders the former irrelevant)
Thanks a lot
Michael
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Michael
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Ok. I just found out, that you're using the jQuery Sortable functionality for the location list. There is an easy fix available for jQuery UI to make it work with touch screens like the iPad. You just have to provide a reference to another JavaScript file as explained here: http://touchpunch.furf.com/
I'm currently trying to get this script file on my server (which is not that easy from the iPad) and add a reference to it in the wordpress theme. If you could bake it into the main plugin code, it would definitely help me and others with the same problem.
Cheers, michael
