Wedge
Public area => The Pub => Off-topic => Topic started by: Arantor on April 15th, 2011, 02:38 AM
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One of the future posts on InI is written solely on an iPad; this is not a particularly common thing for me, to write several hundred words, in mostly one sitting on an iPad - you'll tend to notice my posts are a bit shorter when I'm not deskbound.
I have to say I was yet more underwhelmed by WP on an iPad than WP on a desktop, which takes some doing, to be fair, and WP's mobile offering is almost as bad as the real thing, good thing it's free really.
Anyhow, someone linked me to an app for iPad called Blogsy, and I'm watching their how-to, and I'm sitting here getting jealous. Not so much the touch functionality but how damn easy it is to *get* to everything.
I personally don't really care too much for the sorts of things that the how-to video shows for myself; I'm quite capable of copy/pasting a link and so on, but for less technical users, it's a godsend - even more so than a WYSIWYG editor.
Just watch it, how easy it is to do stuff then tell me this isn't something Wedge should be able to do.
Blogsy Demo Video(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJhtOx9mJnA#ws)
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Pretty slick. Don't know how you could incorporate touch screen gestures in Wedge.
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Don't consider it as 'touch screen'. Imagine you were using a mouse; for the most part it's still relevant - the drag 'n' drop functionality for example.
And actually, it's possible to handle touch screen events in Javascript easily enough, you can even be a little lazy and map touch/drag events to existing mouse events without too much hassle. Been there, done that.
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I say go for it.
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Drag & drop is the only feature I want to see in a forum. It would be quite amazing to see how would you integrate it...