FREN

#FF00AA


2 jul. 2007

@apple@

The most important bit of information about the iPhone keyboard’s usability — it’s obvious in retrospect, and it ought to make a lot of difference when you want to type exact stuff (starting with passwords):

Keypresses are registered on release, not on press. So if you miss, you can roll around the keyboard until the right key shows up and then let go.

Also:

Amusingly, web pages with the most flexible layouts (say a table with a single stretchy column) have the most trouble adapting to the iPhone usage pattern.

I’m now officially announcing that all my websites are optimized for iPhone.

I just had an interesting experience this morning where I was browsing a page on the phone that linked to a YouTube video, and I thought “man, it would be awesome if it actually loaded this in the YouTube app rather than taking me to a web page with a non-functional Flash viewer”, and lo and behold that was exactly what happened, and I squealed with glee and startled my dog.

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