Web Browser?

Tim Shannon shannon.timothy at gmail.com
Wed Apr 9 20:08:04 CEST 2008


I would think it would be as simple as having a toggle button that toggles
from touching the screen to scroll around (up, down, left, right), and
interacting with a webpage.  If your in "interaction" mode, then have the
tiny scroll bars, else leave them off.



On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 5:00 AM, Tilman Baumann <tilman at baumann.name> wrote:

> Ricky Fitz wrote:
>
> > Neo has enough horsepower and pixels to provide a decent web experience.
> > > I have tested the built in browser (with usb net not GPRS) and it
> > > works just fine. Stable layout, wonderful text rendering courtesy of the
> > > extremely high dpi of the screen.
> > > It just needs some usability tweaks. Like scrolling without the
> > > scrollbars.
> > >
> >
> > Probably use the accelerometers for this? If phone bends over a few
> > degrees, scroll down or up... ?
> >
>
> Maybe. I was more thinking about a grab-and scroll feature (kinetic
> scrolling). Or smart zooming like the iPhone does.
> The biggest problem right now is that you have to use small scrollbars to
> navigate trough big pages.
>
>
>
> Regards
>  Tilman
>
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