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Re: Create web apps in JavaScript right from your browser

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Slick design, however, I don't understand the buttons. Why is 'eval' a joystick and commit a box? Also, whenever I hit Preview I get a 500.

We're changing that joystick to a VCR like play button. The commit one being a box hints at a shell or terminal, since we couldn't find an official Git icon. Could maybe put the GitHub Octocat there - what do you think?

Octocat gets my vote.

Re: Create web apps in JavaScript right from your browser

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Why not use the buit-in keyboard-UI in the iPad?

It looks like the UI uses an editable div. I believe that editable divs do not trigger the built in keyboard on an iPhone, and there's no way to force it to do so.

Alright, but shouldn't the solution be to allow the user to use either Google's keyboard or the built-in(by using textarea)?

The built-in one has a dictionary and some autocompletion, which could be good or annoying... :)

Re: Create web apps in JavaScript right from your browser

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We are aware of this and are working on an on screen keyboard, kind of like this: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/integrating-virtual-k... To answer the question below: we would need a custom layout to ensure all the curly brackets and other common JS chars are one tap away

Why not use the buit-in keyboard-UI in the iPad?

Don't work on iOS. In my web app, I display a plain textarea for iPhone and iPad, but it's not an IDE.

Why doesn't @contenteditable work on the iPhone?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/723592/why-doesnt-content...

Is contentEditable not supported by iPad?

http://www.quora.com/Is-contentEditable-not-supported-by-iPa...

Re: Create web apps in JavaScript right from your browser

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post #37
post #35

Slick design, however, I don't understand the buttons. Why is 'eval' a joystick and commit a box? Also, whenever I hit Preview I get a 500.

We're changing that joystick to a VCR like play button. The commit one being a box hints at a shell or terminal, since we couldn't find an official Git icon. Could maybe put the GitHub Octocat there - what do you think?

How about the icon from the Git website?

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http://git-scm.com/

Re: Create web apps in JavaScript right from your browser

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post #43
post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It looks like the UI uses an editable div. I believe that editable divs do not trigger the built in keyboard on an iPhone, and there's no way to force it to do so.

Alright, but shouldn't the solution be to allow the user to use either Google's keyboard or the built-in(by using textarea)? The built-in one has a dictionary and some autocompletion, which could be good or annoying... :)

Most likely annoying if you're writing code.

Re: Create web apps in JavaScript right from your browser

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Slick design, however, I don't understand the buttons. Why is 'eval' a joystick and commit a box? Also, whenever I hit Preview I get a 500.

Sorry, guys. We have SSH key pairs pregenerated for speed reasons and we've just run out of them today. Now everything should be OK.

Re: Create web apps in JavaScript right from your browser

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post #46
post #43

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Alright, but shouldn't the solution be to allow the user to use either Google's keyboard or the built-in(by using textarea)? The built-in one has a dictionary and some autocompletion, which could be good or annoying... :)

Most likely annoying if you're writing code.

Perhaps, maybe on par with seeing some home-made keyboard on screen. IMHO.
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