What event activates the keyboard in mobile safari

So the focus event causes the soft keyboard to come up for input fields.开发者_如何学C Im trying to find a way to stop this occuring. The reason is, as some of you may know, a click event has a 300ms delay before anything happens.

To get around this, we have implemented Googles FastButton http://code.google.com/mobile/articles/fast_buttons.html its working good after a minor tweak to also prevent a second mousedown, but if we click on a button and go to a second page that also has a input textfield, the keyboard still pops up.

I've tried preventing the touchend, mousedown, mouseend, click, firing again, and that helps it by not having the flashing cursor on the textfield but the keyboard is still there. If i blur the field you still see the keyboard popping up then disapparing which is not acceptable.

Any ideas?

Hmm... have you considered disabling the fields with disabled="disabled" while loading, and only then enabling them? It might let you get around the initial focused state that launches the keyboard, so that you can blur first, then enable?