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Making a good SSH client for touchscreen devices is hard. Touchscreen devices have limited screen real estate and non-standard (read: limited) keyboards. As to
by ugh 16y ago
Making a good SSH client for touchscreen devices is hard. Touchscreen devices have limited screen real estate and non-standard (read: limited) keyboards.
As to the language: Clean and crisp say both pretty much the same thing in that sentence, crisp is only along for the alliteration (as is cheerful). My Latin teacher would be delighted.
It's marketing, but it also makes sense. Not all apps are created equal, even if they all do the same simple thing, especially on touchscreen devices. It's more about selling you the keyboard (a suitable keyboard for SSH clients doesn't come standard with touchscreen devices) than about selling you the client.
Oh, and why do they include a description of the target group? Maybe because some people read the Panic blog without knowing what the hell SSH is? Those Panic guys are are pretty well known.
- pluies 16y ago> As to the language: Clean and crisp say both pretty much the same thing in that sentence, crisp is only along for the alliteration (as is cheerful). My Latin teacher would be delighted. Technically, an alliteration is based on the sound. So while "clean", "crisp" and "client" are an alliteration (beginning with the [k] sound), cheerful (beginning with [tʃ]) isn't part of it.
- ugh 16y agoMy Latin teacher would not be disappointed by my failure because she knows that I have never been all that interested or good at that stuff ;)
- rflrob 16y ago> It's more about selling you the keyboard (a suitable keyboard for SSH clients doesn't come standard with touchscreen devices) than about selling you the client. If that's the case, why not mention it a bit more in the post? I agree that a good keyboard layout is important, but the closest they come is saying "customizable special keys". I like iSSH's ability to do a semi-transparent overlay keyboard to maximize screen real estate. Can prompt do this as well?
- devinfoley 16y agoI've been using iSSH for a long time. I can't get the arrow keys to work. And even when I use a bluetooth keyboard, I can't get the CNTRL key to work. Prompt seems to have fixed these issues, and I'm really happy to give them my $5.