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Do you know that you can tap and hold on a hyperlink to bring up a context menu which offers the option "Open in new page"? Where 'page' is functionally equival
by ra88it 17y ago
Do you know that you can tap and hold on a hyperlink to bring up a context menu which offers the option "Open in new page"? Where 'page' is functionally equivalent to 'tab'.
- KirinDave 17y agoIt's strange how people say that iPad browsing is tabless. That's true, but it sort of ignores the point. Might as well say Omniweb is tabless.
- stcredzero 17y agoTabbed browsing in desktop browsers also brings concurrency with it. On my Macbook, I can open lots of links "In New Tab" and read them as they load, so not have to wait for any one of them to load except the first one. With the iPad, I have to wait for every single page.
- KirinDave 17y agoYou actually don't. The interface throws you to a new page, but you can go back to your previous page/tab without waiting for the current one to load and it will finish on its own unless the browser runs out of memory. The interface does a poor job of exposing this feature.
- stcredzero 17y agoCool. That worked! But how concurrent is it? Answer: not concurrent but still snappy feeling. I have to wait longer than on the desktop because of no concurrency, but I mind less than I would otherwise because I can watch the pages zooming around.
- afterburner 17y agoIt's concurrent on the iPhone...
- omaranto 17y agoReally? It's definitely not on the iPod Touch: other windows do not finish loading in the background, they wait until you swith to them to load. If you're right, I wonder why Apple made it different on the iPhone.
- afterburner 17y agoiPhone 3GS to be specific. Just checked it now again, definitely works.
- omaranto 17y agoMmh. My iPod Touch is second gen. I guess older iPhones don't load pages in the background and third gen iPod Touches probably do. It seems likely that Apple enables background loading only on devices with more memory (or maybe, on faster nes).