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The browsing experience on the iPad is fantastic. That said, I too have noticed some small hiccups, though the author's problem with the address bar at the top
by losvedir 16y ago
The browsing experience on the iPad is fantastic. That said, I too have noticed some small hiccups, though the author's problem with the address bar at the top hasn't bothered me. The two things I don't like are:
1) I don't really know what a link points to without clicking it. I would love to just, say, draw a circle with my finger around the link and have it display the URL. Maybe there's some way to hover over links on the iPad that I don't know about?
2) No immediate close button. I have to hit the two overlapping rectangles to bring up the "tabs" and then close from there.
- glhaynes 16y ago1) Tap and hold on the link and a menu will come up showing among other things the target URL of the link. 2) Agreed. That makes browsing feel slower and less fluid for a many-tab user. I don't really have a proposal on how to do it better than it's done currently, though... a close button being always available would be too easy to accidentally tap. Maybe if there wasn't that brief pause when you tap the "tabs" button...
- jodrellblank 16y ago2) Atomic web browser from the App Store gives classic tabs with a close button, and configurable gestures such as two finger swipe down to close a tab, and a three finger tap hides the toolbars for a fullscreen view.
- bruceboughton 16y agoGestures surely cry out for convention over configuration.
- losvedir 16y ago1) Ah! I somehow didn't know that, thanks.
- tienshiao 16y agoRegarding #1, if you click and hold on a link, a little pop up comes up displaying the URL and options to open, open in a new tab, and to copy the URL.