I would much rather them spend the time to make the regular website iPad compatible. But Google has some funky JavaScript on the inputs capturing every keystroke and sending each keypress to the server and none of it works on iOS. You can't type, and you can't paste anything in the textboxes. And similar bugs effect Firefox, like you can't select text in the textareas using the keyboard.
Google+ for iOS is out
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Re: Google+ for iOS is out
#22I would much rather them spend the time to make the regular website iPad compatible. But Google has some funky JavaScript on the inputs capturing every keystroke and sending each keypress to the server and none of it works on iOS. You can't type, and you can't paste anything in the textboxes. And similar bugs effect Firefox, like you can't select text in the textareas using the keyboard.
what about people using an iPhone?
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#23Very interesting to see how much an improvement this is to the mobile site, which is a chore to use on the iPhone. Also here's hoping for a decent iPad app, since the mobile Google+ site looks ridiculous on the iPad and the desktop version is buggy.
The app doesn't work on ipads...
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#24Very interesting to see how much an improvement this is to the mobile site, which is a chore to use on the iPhone. Also here's hoping for a decent iPad app, since the mobile Google+ site looks ridiculous on the iPad and the desktop version is buggy.
I can't find the iPad app in the App Store.
There isn't one, afaik.
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#25Can't believe they went for the same Facebook style launcher, when it's a) used by Facebook b) only got 5 icons c) it's explicitly regarded as bad UI design by Apple (at this WWDC).
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#26It's interesting that Apple allowed Huddle, which is a direct competitor with iMessage.
Maybe Apple should block Twitter too...
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm also running iOS5b3 and it crashes on just about everything. Stream, Pics, Circles, Profile.
Yep, same here using iOS5 beta 3. Crashes when I try to look at my stream or profile.
My Safari crashes so often on iOS5b3 that I'm not even expecting any other app to work properly :(. Now I fully understand why Apple doesn't recommend to use betas on 'production' systems.
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#28I would much rather them spend the time to make the regular website iPad compatible. But Google has some funky JavaScript on the inputs capturing every keystroke and sending each keypress to the server and none of it works on iOS. You can't type, and you can't paste anything in the textboxes. And similar bugs effect Firefox, like you can't select text in the textareas using the keyboard.
But google+ works perfectly fine on my ipad?
even swipe gestures and transition animations
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#29Can any experienced iOS developers please tell me if it is really 'that' hard to make an app iPod Touch compatible? I mean, come on, you just alienate a ton of users without implementing iPod or iPad compatibility...
iPad is 'that' hard because it is non-trivial to take advantage of the new screen real estate. Often-times you must implement a completely new navigation model because the stock split view controller is rarely the navigation model you want to use.
iPod touch is generally easier. It usually comes down to gracefully degrading features. Much care must also be taken to ensure that the app performs well on the iPod touch models which are often running much weaker hardware specs. The reality is that sometimes devs will only test on their personal iPhones and forget to test on older-gen iPod touches, so the iPod touch experience can sometimes be less than ideal.
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#30this is impossible to find in the app store.
conveniently, i have a meeting with the plus folks so i will tell them :)