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New Mobile Safari stuff in iOS5

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Re: New Mobile Safari stuff in iOS5

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Post by joelackner »

SoftwareMaven wrote: post #16
sant0sk1 wrote: post #2

I'm very disappointed that you still can't upload files in Mobile Safari. I "get" the whole no filesystem thing, but come on at least show the photo/video picker. Little impossibilities like this make mobile web apps perpetually less useful than native apps, and that sucks.

Use a different browser. iCab Mobile supports uploading, downloading, and side-loading to DropBox or iDisk. The only time I use Safari is when I clock a link in Mail or Twitter or some other client; otherwise, I use iCab almost exclusively.

while i use icab 99% of the time, i've hit a few limits. first off, not being able to set it as a default browser is frustrating. secondly, i've found a few rendering differences between it and safari: onswipe (the tablet theme powering wordpress.com blogs) and google font api being the two biggest ones i've ran into recently.

Re: New Mobile Safari stuff in iOS5

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Post by ComputerGuru »

bergie wrote: post #14
ComputerGuru wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Give me a sample URI and I'll check it for you. Or wait until I have the time to write up a naive example.

Try http://aloha-editor.org/

Well, that link is down right now, but I tried http://html5demos.com/contenteditable aaaaaand.......

It worked :)

It appeared to be a normal webpage, but as soon as I pressed in the middle of the paragraph, the keyboard sprung open and a frame surrounded the ContentEditable object.

Re: New Mobile Safari stuff in iOS5

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Post by SoftwareMaven »

joelackner wrote: post #21
SoftwareMaven wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Use a different browser. iCab Mobile supports uploading, downloading, and side-loading to DropBox or iDisk. The only time I use Safari is when I clock a link in Mail or Twitter or some other client; otherwise, I use iCab almost exclusively.

while i use icab 99% of the time, i've hit a few limits. first off, not being able to set it as a default browser is frustrating. secondly, i've found a few rendering differences between it and safari: onswipe (the tablet theme powering wordpress.com blogs) and google font api being the two biggest ones i've ran into recently.

Jailbreaking will take care of the first issue (can't wait to jailbreak my iPad...).

I agree that there are some issues with it (it crashes frequently enough that I care), but, overall, I've found, overall, it is much better.

Features I use daily:

  * Pinboard current page
  * ReadItLater current page
  * Readability
  * Side-load to DropBox to pick up on my Mac
  * Youtube inside the browser
  * Ad filters
And so on...

Re: New Mobile Safari stuff in iOS5

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Post by SoftwareMaven »

bergie wrote: post #14
ComputerGuru wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Give me a sample URI and I'll check it for you. Or wait until I have the time to write up a naive example.

Try http://aloha-editor.org/

Too bad they can't be bothered to put any pricing information online. I have a project that needs an editor, it looks really good, AGPL is not even kind of an option, and I'm willing to pay for a license. But heck if I want to deal with "contacting" somebody to start thinking if it's worth looking at.

Re: New Mobile Safari stuff in iOS5

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Post by bergie »

SoftwareMaven wrote: post #25
bergie wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Try http://aloha-editor.org/

Too bad they can't be bothered to put any pricing information online. I have a project that needs an editor, it looks really good, AGPL is not even kind of an option, and I'm willing to pay for a license. But heck if I want to deal with "contacting" somebody to start thinking if it's worth looking at.

There is a bunch of other contentEditable implementations you may want to look at, many of them under a permissive open source license:

https://github.com/alohaeditor/Aloha-Editor/issues/121

BTW, the Aloha devs are willing to give exceptions to AGPL at least to open source projects.

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