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Things That Need To Be In iOS 5

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Re: Things That Need To Be In iOS 5

#2
Hopefully someday I will be able to do more than swipe left and right to navigate the system. How bout releasing a whole new look and feel to iOS by swiping upwards/downwards, which'll bring you to an open and customizable feel. Widgets I suppose.

Re: Things That Need To Be In iOS 5

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Seems like the writer technical ignorance forgot something important: a real html5 browser.

The iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows Phone browsers doesn't support designMode/contentEditable on their browsers. So, there is a limit in doing WYSIWYG interfaces like Google Docs.

Re: Things That Need To Be In iOS 5

#6
I have never heard of MobileNotifier. Pretty Cool, but covering up a row of the icons will never fly with Apple. For my purposes the notifications work fine, except for when you are a phone call and you get an alert, you have to respond to it - to end the call.

Re: Things That Need To Be In iOS 5

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post #5

Seems like the writer technical ignorance forgot something important: a real html5 browser. The iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows Phone browsers doesn't support designMode/contentEditable on their browsers. So, there is a limit in doing WYSIWYG interfaces like Google Docs.

Not to take anything away from your comment, but Google Doc's are not build using contentEditable as far as I know. I think they are capturing every input and building the DOM "by hand".

Re: Things That Need To Be In iOS 5

#8
If they bring in a better notification system and lock screen, that itself would be a good enough reason for me to upgrade to iOS5/iPhone5.

The writer's on crack though, if he thinks Apple is going to reverse their decision about sideloading 3rd party apps or integrating Gmail features into the mail client.

Re: Things That Need To Be In iOS 5

#9
No. "Sideloading of Third-party Apps" Whatever your opinion of it, Apple has shown time and time again that this will not officially happen. I would be extremely surprised if it were to happen. I am sure some of Apple's devices are sold at a loss to be later made into revenue by app and music sales. Third party applications would defeat this strategy.

Re: Things That Need To Be In iOS 5

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post #5

Seems like the writer technical ignorance forgot something important: a real html5 browser. The iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows Phone browsers doesn't support designMode/contentEditable on their browsers. So, there is a limit in doing WYSIWYG interfaces like Google Docs.

Full support for the HTML5 Audio API is also necessary.
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