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by tiffanyh 2606 days ago
>>“running on an iPad Pro”

I was under the impression that browser based IDE won’t work on iOS because safari (or maybe UIkit) doesn’t support some type of controls.

I can’t find the mention but I read that here at HN not long ago
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sandis 2606 days ago
Afaik the WebKit fix is in, but hasn't shipped in iOS yet (as of 12.2)

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149054

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robocat 2606 days ago
Similar topic for Android: I am guessing for Android, VS Code has some workaround for Electron to work with virtual keyboards? Browser based IDEs won't work on Android with a touch keyboard:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=118639

"it's a discussion we've had internally many times. The Android Keyboard team, however, has decided that key-codes are not the way to go... and I cannot say they are wrong.

While there are certain advantages to key-codes, they are also very limiting. They get in the way of auto-correct, auto-suggest, swiping, voice dictation, and many others. There are many possible capabilities of a soft "input method" that do not fit the paradigm of key codes."

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