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Early build of iPhone 2.2 OS has new Safari, no copy & paste or Push Notification

7 points by qhoxie 18y ago

lux 18y ago
Flash in Safari would be a welcome update too, but no mention of that...
iigs 18y ago
If it takes as long to get cut and paste as it took to get a right mouse button on the Macintosh you might as well stop paying attention for a while. I think the analogy holds fairly well -- perhaps some people would be confused by it or something, but it's not that obtrusive and it would give a significant portion of the market a feature that would make them more efficient.
puffythefish 18y ago
"With the new layout, users will have one-click access to search rather than two-click" Umm... doesn't the search already work with just one click? (well tap really)
- palish 18y ago
  Only in landscape mode (when the device is held horizontally.)
jodrellblank 18y ago
Recently, there was a link to a new invention by the T9 predictive text guy with a flashy shiny predictive touch screen keyboard. Apple should jump all over that. Right now. It's so obviously a brilliant idea that they should put the finishing touches to the decent iphone bluetooth stack that they undoubtedly aren't working on and do that next. New safari? Who gives a cartoon expletive stlye %&$!*@? What more does mobile safari need except the ability to load pages in the background? It needs better text input, that's what. New! Shiny! But not new Safari, that's neither new enough nor shiny enough. (Just quietly shove the spidermonkey javascript engine in while you're doing an update, though ;))
- silencio 18y ago
  What more does mobile safari need except the ability to load pages in the background? It needs to stop crashing ;) (recent gripe of mine after mobile safari crashed after I typed up a huge rant defending something on a bug report and tried to submit...)
  - jauco 18y ago
    usually when I submit large amounts of text on an unstable site/device I copy it first to save the text to memory :-p
    - silencio 18y ago
      don't even get me started on copy/paste on iPhone ;) Especially since said rant contained lots of code and that's nearly impossible to type with the iPhone autocorrect in the way. Grarrghghghg

7 points by qhoxie 18y ago

lux 18y ago

Flash in Safari would be a welcome update too, but no mention of that...

iigs 18y ago

If it takes as long to get cut and paste as it took to get a right mouse button on the Macintosh you might as well stop paying attention for a while. I think the analogy holds fairly well -- perhaps some people would be confused by it or something, but it's not that obtrusive and it would give a significant portion of the market a feature that would make them more efficient.

puffythefish 18y ago

"With the new layout, users will have one-click access to search rather than two-click" Umm... doesn't the search already work with just one click? (well tap really)

palish 18y ago
Only in landscape mode (when the device is held horizontally.)

jodrellblank 18y ago

Recently, there was a link to a new invention by the T9 predictive text guy with a flashy shiny predictive touch screen keyboard. Apple should jump all over that. Right now. It's so obviously a brilliant idea that they should put the finishing touches to the decent iphone bluetooth stack that they undoubtedly aren't working on and do that next. New safari? Who gives a cartoon expletive stlye %&$!*@? What more does mobile safari need except the ability to load pages in the background? It needs better text input, that's what. New! Shiny! But not new Safari, that's neither new enough nor shiny enough. (Just quietly shove the spidermonkey javascript engine in while you're doing an update, though ;))

silencio 18y ago
What more does mobile safari need except the ability to load pages in the background? It needs to stop crashing ;) (recent gripe of mine after mobile safari crashed after I typed up a huge rant defending something on a bug report and tried to submit...)
- jauco 18y ago
  usually when I submit large amounts of text on an unstable site/device I copy it first to save the text to memory :-p
  - silencio 18y ago
    don't even get me started on copy/paste on iPhone ;) Especially since said rant contained lots of code and that's nearly impossible to type with the iPhone autocorrect in the way. Grarrghghghg