I'd kill for this feature.
Well not kill a human. I'd kill an animal. Like a cow, but I'd get someone else to do it and I'd eat the cow after.
I'd eat a cow for this feature.
I've been using swipeselection on my iPhone and iPad and although it works great on my iPad, I've come some nags on the iPhone. When I move the cursor through a body of text and start at the letter K (for example), it will work however the letter is "pressed" and the next tap enters a K. If I'm editing throughout a body of text I end up adding various letters all over. Sort of defeats the purpose. Selecting text doesn't have this problem though. Also this doesn't happen on the iPad.
It can complement the current method. It is less discoverable, but the same can be said about many of the current gestures. I would say the current method is more fiddly and slower than this.Interesting concept, but this is more complicated than the current method which means Apple won't implement it.
I have a degree in Computer Science and have studied usability and interface design for over a decade.
I'm going to tell you right now that more options is NEVER bad.
On Jan 28, 2009, at 1:43 AM, Bertrand Serlet wrote:
We try to stay away from options because if you make a system with one path rather than two paths you put all your energy in designing the best path rather than divide your energy in two (or worse divide it unevenly and have one mediocre alternative).
Also for the user its simpler without a choice.
For any one preference this is not a big deal, but when multiplied by a thousand, you create a mess.
-- Bertrand
Even on iPhone, Apple should drop the letters that don't exist in that foreign language and replace them with some of the letters that now requires this slow method. Its soft keyboard is far better than a hardware keyboard would be for this purpose, but it is still disappointing to see Apple stop just before that last step.But it isn't a swiping up gesture, is it? It's a hold-for-one-second-then-swipe-up-and-slightly-to-the-right gesture (which btw was way better before iOS4 when it automatically preselected the most likely character (e.g. in German äöüß) from the list). This in itself is pretty much broken for languages like German where these characters are really common (and other languages I suspect). At least on the iPad there should be enough space for a standard German (or French or Turkish etc.) keyboard.
This would break the keyboard for many non-English languages.
Really hoping Apple won't implement this. Sorry.
This would break the keyboard for many non-English languages.
Really hoping Apple won't implement this. Sorry.
As cool as this keyboard feature is, Apple is a company of integration, and releasing this means it would almost have to be available on iPhone and iPod Touch, which is difficult to integrate onto such a small screen. If this were abailable, I would hope there was an option to turn it off incase it gets annoying. I still think this would be nice for my crazy notetaking habits though.