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This is a cool toy but it doesn't really seem to address the main issue of writing code on a touch device; typing on a touch device sucks. Moving code around i
by ebbv 14y ago
This is a cool toy but it doesn't really seem to address the main issue of writing code on a touch device; typing on a touch device sucks.
Moving code around is not a difficult problem to solve. Drag to highlight, grab it and move it somewhere else. You've done that elegantly.
But writing massive amounts of code on a device without a traditional keyboard is awful and that's the difficult problem to solve. Until that's solved I don't think anyone can claim to have made real progress enabling development on keyboardless devices.
- westoncb 14y agofrom the page: "What's not There (Yet): Text generation: with sufficiently structured text, the Tiled Text engine will narrow down the possibilities of what can be inserted at any given point so that the user can select textual constructs from a grid of options, rather than inserting everything one character at a time (this won't work for natural languages; it's for apps like shells and code editors, and perhaps some more exotic things). The engine for doing this is at ~(70% - 80%), but it has not been attached to the UI yet ..." It'll be there soon!
- visarga 14y agoOn the contrary, selecting, cutting and pasting text is awfully cumbersome (on iPhone), together with placing the cursor in the desired spot, but typing is almost ok, and on the iPad I can type normally - it's the editing that doesn't work well.
- kordless 14y agoIf only your phone had an Xbox controller!
- jQueryIsAwesome 14y agoAre you thinking what I'm thinking? http://i.imgur.com/1d2F6Ot.jpg http://i.imgur.com/1d2F6Ot.jpg PD: Apple please don't sue me for the patent and copyright violation this may contain; I have no money and this image is just a non-profit parody so it is covered by "fair use" under US trademark law.
- dakimov 14y agoYeah, select, cut & paste on iOS is painful.