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Android stops suggesting words

I'm working on a mobile version of the chatroom my website (just a website, not an android application), and the first time I loaded that page on my Motorola DROID everything acted as expected:

  1. click on the input field to select it
  2. tap the same field again to open up the keyboard
  3. start typing
  4. auto complete words are suggested gray-on-white right above the keyboard

After a few refreshes of the page step 4 does not happen! There is no white bar above the keyboard, and no suggestions come up.

I cannot figure out what may be causing it, or how to test it. I downloaded Dolphin browser, and the keyboard behaves correctly the first time, but not the following times (just like default).

All suggestions are welcome.

Edit Apr 8:
As requested a link to the website: http://phantasyrpg.com will redirect to http://mobile.phantasyrpg.com -- you will need to register and visit the "Tavern" from the menu on top left.

Edit Apr 10:
I've created a very empty example that has the same issue:
http://mobile.phantasyrpg.com/test-chat.html I'm also noticing this on other pages as long as the URI is the same -- there's this issue. If there's a GET parameter that's different, suggestions come up correctly.

I'm wondering if there's some setting in my Apache that sends some silly or broken header. But I don't know much about headers.

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Mikhail Avatar asked Nov 14 '22 08:11

Mikhail


1 Answers

I've had this happen before... that are workarounds when using a WebView, but AFAIK there's no way to fix this in just a plain site. But basically, there's some sort of cache or something that exists in the browser tab. At first (new tab) auto-complete always works for me. After staying on the same domain in the same tab for a while, it all crashes. For me specifically, after this point the number '7' on the keyboard will sometimes make the browser segfault =\

If you look around the net, you will notice countless bugs filed for the issues showing up in almost all major websites. All complaining the auto-complete stops on Android. I'm pretty it's global, and unstoppable.

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Colin Godsey Avatar answered Nov 16 '22 02:11

Colin Godsey