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Or maybe just have a shared directory or, even better, a microsd card, where you can get/put stuff via usb like you can do on an android device.
I haven't had an iPad for very long, but I love, love, love it for web browsing. It's like you're flying over your web pages. However, I don't like how iPad Safari handles "tabs". I would much prefer traditional tabs where I could select or close a tab in only a single tap, instead of the three taps that are required now. Regardless, it looks like I can finally retire my Newton.
Really? I try to love mine for browsing (on it now) but the silly thumbnail tab screen that feels like a clumsy iPhone leftover kills me. I almost feel like I'm going back to IE pre-tabs. Copy/paste is also so much slower than a laptop... I don't know how to improve it, but it is relatively tedious. I don't care about the lack of Flash, but broken iframes, no drag/drop, no way of bringing up the keyboard for things l…
The "tabs" on safari need an improvement. I instinctively tapped and held so I could reorganize them but they didn't budge. Still, it gets an 11 out of 10 stars in my book.
Digital comics on this are awesome. I think the medium is going to change for devices like this - the idea of a page feels like an artificial constraint when reading digital comics on a larger screen device. I guess he meant "smaller screen device"? Virtually every computer monitor is larger than the iPad, after all.
I wonder if he typed that post on an iPad.
Anything text based is pretty poor. Nice that it's an option, but not something you want to use regularly unless you have to. Especially because they use the iPhone soft keyboard rather than the iPad one.
Games, on the other hand, work just fine. I usually forget I'm playing a scaled version once I start. Kind of like TV resolution: 20 minutes into my movie, I've totally forgotten whether I'm watching 720p or 1080p. (Others certainly have different experiences, though!) I've found that several iPhone games (mostly graphical adventures) that I didn't have much patience for on a tiny screen are engaging and fun on an iPad. So for me, the biggest problem with some iPhone games on iPad isn't the resolution, it's the controls: most games with a "traditional" control system (joystick on the left, buttons on the right), would be much better if you could move the controls farther into the corners. Between the iPad screen bezel and the black border that gets added to iPhone apps (they're a slightly different aspect ratio than the iPad screen, so they don't entirely fill the screen), it's hard to reach my thumbs to the controls.
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I'm surprised he only has 20. I use tabs as a reading queue...usually from news aggregators like HN. If I waited till I had time to read everything that looked interesting, I'd miss most of the stuff that looked interesting. If I just queue it up, it can sit quietly in the background and wait for me to take a break from work. I use different browsers to logically separate my groups of viewing habits. One is open for…
Wouldn't it be relatively easy to create an alternative iPad browser using the Webkit component, but with the chrome more aimed at this style of surfing? It would only take a few alterations from the default: Pages wouldn't be loaded until you actually switch to them, and so all non-active tabs are really just quick, forced-order bookmarks; clicking on links would always push them onto the queue (with the option to p…
The worst thing is that there seems to be this weird proclivity for GUI designers to put long lists of things horizontally instead of vertically, the Windows Task Bar, Tabs in browsers, diagrams in Visio, etc. Wouldn't these things just work about a billion times better as a simple list along the left or right side of the window? Especially since most screens these days are so wide, web pages never actually fill them up horizontally. (Yes, I'd tried various extensions, but none of them really seem to do what I want).
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I'm surprised he only has 20. I use tabs as a reading queue...usually from news aggregators like HN. If I waited till I had time to read everything that looked interesting, I'd miss most of the stuff that looked interesting. If I just queue it up, it can sit quietly in the background and wait for me to take a break from work. I use different browsers to logically separate my groups of viewing habits. One is open for…
Wouldn't it be relatively easy to create an alternative iPad browser using the Webkit component, but with the chrome more aimed at this style of surfing? It would only take a few alterations from the default: Pages wouldn't be loaded until you actually switch to them, and so all non-active tabs are really just quick, forced-order bookmarks; clicking on links would always push them onto the queue (with the option to p…
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Wouldn't it be relatively easy to create an alternative iPad browser using the Webkit component, but with the chrome more aimed at this style of surfing? It would only take a few alterations from the default: Pages wouldn't be loaded until you actually switch to them, and so all non-active tabs are really just quick, forced-order bookmarks; clicking on links would always push them onto the queue (with the option to p…
Yes please! A browser built around this workflow would be fantastic. You don't have any idea how many times I've accidentally closed one of my "workspace" browsers and left another browser open and lost several hours worth of research because there's no good way to retrieve all of the tabs that were there in a simple way. Keeping the tabs as bookmarks would likewise be even better since I've brought even quad core sy…
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Yes please! A browser built around this workflow would be fantastic. You don't have any idea how many times I've accidentally closed one of my "workspace" browsers and left another browser open and lost several hours worth of research because there's no good way to retrieve all of the tabs that were there in a simple way. Keeping the tabs as bookmarks would likewise be even better since I've brought even quad core sy…
You happen to have interested an iPad developer who thinks this is an excellent idea. Please send more details on this idea to the address in my profile, and I'll see what can be done to make it a reality in a quite moment one day :OD