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I love the mentality behind this effort. More stuff can and should be done in the browser on mobile devices. For this to succeed, the most important problem i
by johnrob 15y ago
I love the mentality behind this effort. More stuff can and should be done in the browser on mobile devices. For this to succeed, the most important problem is not exposing mobile hardware (camera, gps, etc) - it's user input. The cornerstone of the web is typing a url into the address bar, and typing is still a miserable experience on phones. Clicking links on touchscreens isn't exactly stellar either (hence the new verb 'fat-fingering'). If someone can solve these problems, the browser stack is already powerful enough to do to phones what it already did to the desktop.
- projct 15y agoFYI, 'fat-fingering' or 'fat-fingered' isn't really that new and I've more often heard it used in regard to keyboards on computers. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fat%20finger http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fat%20finger has a definition from 2005 but I think I had heard it as early as 1997.