Page control arrows for PWA

[crazycells]

@phenomlab thanks, yes, I will move them close to the menu bar, but I was asking in case there is a technical detail I was not aware…

[phenomlab]

@crazycells No, none that I am aware of - move them to where you’d prefer. In fact, I took your advice and moved them on Sudonix, which uses the CSS class I added in the previous post.

[crazycells]

@phenomlab yes, I believe this looks more natural, they are closer to the fingers and on the top of these, it is not blocking any content in the middle of the screen…

[phenomlab]

@crazycells Exactly. i’m going to hire you as a design guru! You have some great ideas on what Sudonix should look like and I’m grateful for any contribution that enhances what I hope is already a good experience.

[crazycells]

@phenomlab It is nice to hear that I am able to contribute your website

[phenomlab]

@phenomlab said in Page control arrows for PWA:

That now means the page scroller (the button that appears bottom right) will be in the way, although on thinking about it, we already have a page navigation when you are in the topic, so no point in having another.

Based on the above point made, I have now disabled the scroll to top button inside topics.

[crazycells]

@phenomlab this works great! thanks a lot. And thanks to your JS codes, it is only activated on PWA, not on mobile…

[phenomlab]

@crazycells Not sure if you are using the scroll-top function, but if you are, I have enhanced the position of the button and re-sized it to match the forward and back arrows as below

The scroll-top button is located on the bottom right.

[crazycells]

@phenomlab yes I used it before but not very frequently… Maybe you should put it above… just because it is more intuitive…
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[phenomlab]

@crazycells Ok, but there’s no “scroll-down”

[crazycells]

@phenomlab yeah , I know not necessary, but “up” should be above right/left buttons I guess… that is how people would think…

[phenomlab]

@crazycells Good point, thanks.

[crazycells]

@phenomlab but I guess “up” is on mobile, right? not PWA specific?

[phenomlab]

@crazycells it is, yes - I think I’ll leave it as there is no specific PWA CSS classes I know of. Well, you could use something like the below, but this means multiple CSS files for different operating systems.

/**
* Determine the mobile operating system.
* This function returns one of 'iOS', 'Android', 'Windows Phone', or 'unknown'.
*
* @returns {String}
*/
 
function getMobileOperatingSystem()
{
  var userAgent = navigator.userAgent || navigator.vendor || window.opera;
  // Windows Phone must come first because its UA also contains "Android"
  if (/windows phone/i.test(userAgent))
  {
    return  "Windows Phone";
  }
 
  if (/android/i.test(userAgent))
  {
    return  "Android";
  }
 
  if (/iPad|iPhone|iPod/.test(userAgent) && !window.MSStream)
  {
    return  "iOS";
  }
 
  return  "unknown";
  // return “Android” - one should either handle the unknown or fallback to a specific platform, let’s say Android
}

Once you’re in that rabbit hole, it’s impossible to get out of it.