workaround for contenteditable on iPad

Question

I have a web application that uses TinyMce to allow rich text editing. Some of my customers are desperate to get it to work on iPad (which doesn\'t support contenteditable and t

Answer 1

Write my own iPad app. This isn't really workable because it's a big complex app with loads of HTML and javascript and I would have to rewrite it all

Not necessarily true. You can embed the working part of your web app in a UIWebView component, which is basically Safari embedded in your app, and handle the not working part in the app (providing content). It would require work for sure, but maybe a lot less than rewriting the whole app for iPad.

Answer 2

As of June 2011, it looks like there may be support coming in iOS 5

http://www.tuaw.com/2011/06/08/will-ios-5s-safari-deliver-better-support-for-web-editors/

this observation (that it's working in the beta) has been confirmed by a colleague of mine too.

Answer 3

At to this point there are no browsers on the ipad that will allow RTE. Actually there is only one phone giving full browser support for RTE (sry, i forgot the name of the phone). Therefor, i think you almost showed all possible solutions (jv42's suggestion excluded) yourselve.