[CB-9685] A fix for the magnifying glass popping up on iOS9 when longpressing the webview

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Component/s: cordova-ios, cordova-lib
• Labels: cordova-ios-4.0.x
• Assignee: Shazron Abdullah
• Reporter: Eddy Verbruggen
• Created: 22/Sep/15 09:44
• Updated: 23/Aug/18 06:51
• Resolved: 13/Oct/15 03:50

Description

When pressing the webview for 500ms on iOS9 a magnification glass pops up. On UIWebView the popup is always at the top of the page (see the screenshot in the readme here: https://github.com/EddyVerbruggen/cordova-plugin-ios-longpress-fix), on WKWebView the popup is where your finger is.

On UIWebView we have yet to find a non-native way (read: CSS) to fix the problem, but on WKWebView a few lines of CSS seem to fix the issue.

This improvement is aimed at resolving the problem for UIWebView. There is no reason not to include a fix for WKWebView as well, other than I didn't invest time in it because of the CSS workaround.