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Wonder what changed to allow them to do this. I can't believe the omission of multitouch from the original release was just down to oversight..

dminor 17y ago
Assuming Apple asked them not to do multitouch, probably just a decision that the rewards outweigh the risks.
- DougBTX 17y ago
  The browser looks a bit flaky. Watch the end of the video where he double taps and the whole screen goes white, or at the very end when he pinches to zoom, and the view jumps into a side bar. The main column of text on the page seems to be jumping about, sometimes full page width, sometimes half page width. The maps app seems like it could do with some work too, a couple of times the whole screen goes grey while he zooms in and out.
  - buster 17y ago
    The browser text column of the article initially is set to the width of the screen, so it fits and you don't have to scroll horizontically. I sure hope it remains that way, because this feature is really a nice one (see my other comment). The map screen goes grey because there it is still loading the data for that zoomlevel. While there could be some icon indicating the loading process, it's not that bad, i think.
    - jamuraa 17y ago
      I don't understand why they would want to go grey when they are zooming in. They have the tile for the old zoomlevel, they should just scale it until new data comes in (and overlay the new data on the old). This is exactly what happens in the browser when you zoom (as long as you're not zooming, say, 6-7 levels). Also, I think it would be better to render the whole page at once, with a width of something nominal like 800px or something, and then you can pan and zoom (with or without smart zoom) super fast in hardware. It has always been a dissapointment that the zooming is not as smooth on Android because the browser tries to re-flow all of the "fluid" pages to it's new width and height. (it also breaks some pages, where they try to float something to the bottom of the view, but the view on Android is just slightly larger than the screen, so it's unreachable)
      - buster 17y ago
        Yes, you are right about the zoom. That's odd. Actually, when i zoom in on my Nexus One (with the control buttons, not pinch) it does scale the image until the new one appears. And, no, please no. The way the browser adjusts the text width is really a nice thing! If you care about how your page looks like on a mobile device, do a mobile version ;)
pkulak 17y ago
Probably because Jobs called their motto bullshit. "Okay, Jobs... how's this for evil? Multi-touch on Android!"

dminor 17y ago

Assuming Apple asked them not to do multitouch, probably just a decision that the rewards outweigh the risks.

DougBTX 17y ago
The browser looks a bit flaky. Watch the end of the video where he double taps and the whole screen goes white, or at the very end when he pinches to zoom, and the view jumps into a side bar. The main column of text on the page seems to be jumping about, sometimes full page width, sometimes half page width. The maps app seems like it could do with some work too, a couple of times the whole screen goes grey while he zooms in and out.
- buster 17y ago
  The browser text column of the article initially is set to the width of the screen, so it fits and you don't have to scroll horizontically. I sure hope it remains that way, because this feature is really a nice one (see my other comment). The map screen goes grey because there it is still loading the data for that zoomlevel. While there could be some icon indicating the loading process, it's not that bad, i think.
  - jamuraa 17y ago
    I don't understand why they would want to go grey when they are zooming in. They have the tile for the old zoomlevel, they should just scale it until new data comes in (and overlay the new data on the old). This is exactly what happens in the browser when you zoom (as long as you're not zooming, say, 6-7 levels). Also, I think it would be better to render the whole page at once, with a width of something nominal like 800px or something, and then you can pan and zoom (with or without smart zoom) super fast in hardware. It has always been a dissapointment that the zooming is not as smooth on Android because the browser tries to re-flow all of the "fluid" pages to it's new width and height. (it also breaks some pages, where they try to float something to the bottom of the view, but the view on Android is just slightly larger than the screen, so it's unreachable)
    - buster 17y ago
      Yes, you are right about the zoom. That's odd. Actually, when i zoom in on my Nexus One (with the control buttons, not pinch) it does scale the image until the new one appears. And, no, please no. The way the browser adjusts the text width is really a nice thing! If you care about how your page looks like on a mobile device, do a mobile version ;)

pkulak 17y ago

Probably because Jobs called their motto bullshit. "Okay, Jobs... how's this for evil? Multi-touch on Android!"