That was quite a long write-up for something that I thought was obvious just from using the iPhone for a bit of time.
How the iPhone mail app decides when to show you new mail
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Re: How the iPhone mail app decides when to show you new mail
#32I don't have an iPhone, but I do have a question... What if you've sorted the list (by sender, for example) so the 'natural' place for the new message is half way down your list? Will it determine a travel delta or something similar to determine whether to snap you to the message? I'm guessing you can't sort your email. I've run into this problem before (how to orient a view of a list that is updated in the backgroun…
Your post reminds me of a discovery I made a few weeks ago that BLEW MY MIND: You can not sort messages in Gmail. I'm betting that reading that statement just caused a bunch of people to say "Really?" and go check, but it's for real. In several years of using Gmail, I never felt the need. Search always found what I wanted. I mentioned this to some people in my office and they were similarly stunned that they never no…
Last time I checked, gmail doesn't do word stemming either, or substring matches.
Re: How the iPhone mail app decides when to show you new mail
#33We do the same thing for the Notifo iPhone app, except our "magic number" is 1. If you are the top of the list, new notifications slide in and push the list down. If you are scrolled down past the first notification, new notifications load in, but the list stays still (a non-trivial thing to do with UITableViews). I never knew the mail app did the same thing (I have mine set to refresh manually); it just seemed like…
Slightly OT, but I use and love Notifo. After recently getting an Android phone I've discovered that Android's notification mechanism absolutely destroys the minimalistic implementation on iOS.
Re: How the iPhone mail app decides when to show you new mail
#34Very interesting findings. But, can you imagine the author explaining something more complicated?
Yes, and he would succeed in style. I'm reminded of Sipser's intro to theory of computation: lots of images paint a very clear picture. Much clearer than when you would find yourself forced to draw all those images yourself (which you simply wouldn't do and you would instead settle for thinking you understood it). This is much simpler, but there are enough folks for which it is equally hard as intro to ToC was the first time for CS geeks.
Re: How the iPhone mail app decides when to show you new mail
#35Re: How the iPhone mail app decides when to show you new mail
#36Very interesting findings. But, can you imagine the author explaining something more complicated?
Yes, and he would succeed in style. I'm reminded of Sipser's intro to theory of computation: lots of images paint a very clear picture. Much clearer than when you would find yourself forced to draw all those images yourself (which you simply wouldn't do and you would instead settle for thinking you understood it). This is much simpler, but there are enough folks for which it is equally hard as intro to ToC was the fi…
Perhaps you're right. But I think that the article could be summed up in a few bullet points without losing detail.