I found this older thread talking about why CKEditor does not work properly in mobile Safari:
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=16676&hilit=iPhone+mobile+Safari
It was suggested that the problem is actual Safari and not CKEditor. Since that post there have been iOS releases and CKEditor releases. Has the situation changed at all, or is the fundamental problem still mobile Safari ECMAScript compliance?
Sat, 02/26/2011 - 17:04
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Re: Any news on mobile Safari support?
It has never been a problem about ECMAScript, as contentEditable doesn't rely on Javascript and most of the features about editing aren't related to the ECMAScript standard.
The most basic problem is that although current versions of mobile Safari "support" contentEditable, the fact is that the user isn't able to perform easily basic actions like say... typing some text.
Check this post and try to use that editable zone: http://alfonsoml.blogspot.com/2010/12/l ... 3-for.html
In the desktop you can type easily, but you are out of luck with mobile Webkit.