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Thanks for sharing that! The Iphone clearly does a better job now. When I highlighted the Lumia it was not in absolute terms, but the jump in quality from my p

by lbj 5y ago

Thanks for sharing that! The Iphone clearly does a better job now. When I highlighted the Lumia it was not in absolute terms, but the jump in quality from my previous phone, and Im hoping the I13 is a similar jump. Currently I have the X and it takes really bad photos. But overall, I just loved everything about Lumia/Windows. Very non-intrusive. The e-ink layout took almost no power to run, had no apps in the store so very fast.. :)

mgdlbp 5y ago
Even now, I'm still fond of the Pivot control. Alas, side-scrolling for navigation seems to be a foregone paradigm; all that's left are horizontal lists. Maybe navbars and hamburgers positioned on the farthest edge of the screen are more usable, but the Pivot was just so Swiss! It's ironic, though, that the situation with home screens is inverted: orthodox launchers have horizontal pages, but the WP Start screen is vertical and unpaginated! One app in particular, a WP original and exclusive, now comes to mind: Logic Games, a diverse collection of grid-based logic puzzles, had an extreme but effective take on this kind of navigation: nested horiz/vert scrolling formed a grid of phone screen-sized pages for puzzle types, and each page contained a grid of tiles for individual puzzles (sadly, 4D chess was not among them). I've yet to come across a more extensive unified set of grid-based puzzle implementations, though Simon Tatham's collection has similar spirit: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/ https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/ Looks like it's still listed in the store at: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/p/logic-games/9wzdncrfhmwc https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/p/logic-games/9wzdncrfhmwc Though from the screenshots, I've just realized that it actually uses not Pivot, but Panorama controls: https://web.archive.org/web/20131124064955/http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/windowsphone/design/hh202890(v=vs.105).aspx https://web.archive.org/web/20131124064955/http://msdn.micro... Reviewing the docs in the Wayback Machine, Pivot was toned down in UWP to a tab-like appearance and recently deprecated in WinUI by NavigationView.

by lbj 5y ago

mgdlbp 5y ago

Even now, I'm still fond of the Pivot control. Alas, side-scrolling for navigation seems to be a foregone paradigm; all that's left are horizontal lists. Maybe navbars and hamburgers positioned on the farthest edge of the screen are more usable, but the Pivot was just so Swiss! It's ironic, though, that the situation with home screens is inverted: orthodox launchers have horizontal pages, but the WP Start screen is vertical and unpaginated! One app in particular, a WP original and exclusive, now comes to mind: Logic Games, a diverse collection of grid-based logic puzzles, had an extreme but effective take on this kind of navigation: nested horiz/vert scrolling formed a grid of phone screen-sized pages for puzzle types, and each page contained a grid of tiles for individual puzzles (sadly, 4D chess was not among them). I've yet to come across a more extensive unified set of grid-based puzzle implementations, though Simon Tatham's collection has similar spirit: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/ https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/ Looks like it's still listed in the store at: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/p/logic-games/9wzdncrfhmwc https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/p/logic-games/9wzdncrfhmwc Though from the screenshots, I've just realized that it actually uses not Pivot, but Panorama controls: https://web.archive.org/web/20131124064955/http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/windowsphone/design/hh202890(v=vs.105).aspx https://web.archive.org/web/20131124064955/http://msdn.micro... Reviewing the docs in the Wayback Machine, Pivot was toned down in UWP to a tab-like appearance and recently deprecated in WinUI by NavigationView.