Application UI Design Recommendations

pauric pauric at pauric.net
Thu Jul 19 18:45:28 CEST 2007


Good point Brad, a noticeable feature dropped from iPhone was text
selection & copy/paste.

But, that cant be dropped as apps are ported in to openmoko, right?

On 7/19/07, Brad Midgley <bmidgley at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mohammed
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> > btw, i just noticed... the iphone does implement a double tap. in safari
> and google maps, double tap is used to zoom in.
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> one reason double-tap is rightly avoided on a touchscreen is it's imprecise.
> Selecting text is interesting but still problematic unless the font is big.
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> I'll bet apple pulls it off here because it's a double tap in a big region
> so the two taps don't need to land in the same place.
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> Brad
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