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What's the point of the website? I can't see. It looks like a links page that looks vaguely "cool". The text at the top is too small and pale against the background, and a lot of the text is too small. I'd rate it "average" in terms of web design. That's when I'm not getting the "loading" animation because each page takes so long to load, and then it slows down the rest of the computer once its loaded. Actually flicking through it, I'd put it down to "poor".

Isn't Actionscript just extended ECMAScript, i.e., extended Javascript? I don't do Flash, if you hadn't guessed. I've seen so many abuses of Flash, and so many glitzy, but rubbish websites done in it, that I think that people lose their focus when they're using it for purposes for which it isn't best suited for. Including the website you link to as an example of good Flash use! Thinking outside the proverbial box is great if you end up with something good. Sadly, it looks like arty toss to me.

And since when is Actionscript the reason that Google can search things? I'm sure that Google had to write custom code to tear apart the flash files to analyse the text portions. Can Google link directly to a page hidden deep within a Flash website?

it's not the site itself which i love but all the incredible sites they feature - alkmost all of which are created in flash.
 
Note: 1.1.4 did NOT fix the stuttering video-out issue. Looks like I'll be putting in another bug report later. Damnit.
 
Oh, and don't get your hopes up about a Flash plugin being written with the SDK. Not only is it very hard to do (flash is massive, and has no public API*), but there's a snowball's chance in hell that Apple would include MobileSafari plugins in the SDK. They don't want to break the "device" idea by allowing potentially poorly-written plugins messing up such a core feature of the phone. Native apps is going to be as good as it gets. ...

Luckily, we already know about the MobileSafari plugin API, because we have a download file plugin written for jailbroken phones. If anyone was planning to write a flash plugin, they would have started by now. They wouldn't be waiting for the SDK.

I get that adding Flash support would take a lot of space, andof memory serves that was one reason it wasn't included from the very beginning. For that reason, if no other, I'd bet you're right that we won't see Flash support any time soon.

I'm not sure I follow the rest of your argument, tho'. You point out that there's no public API for Flash, which would indicate that any plugin support would have to come from Adobe. But you also assert that someone would have started a MobileSafari plugin by now if we were going to see one written. I'm thinking they're not likely to develop software for jailbroken devices. My guess would be that any Flash support would have to come after an SDK release.
 
My phone died overnight, which has never happened before. Anyone noticed any less battery life?

I'm pretty sure mine is getting less battery life. I had about a half charge about three hours ago, made a five minute call on speaker phone and it was down about 25% when I just looked at it.

I don't know if it's my phone or my imagination, but the phone felt like it was running hot and the power drain seems to confirm that the processor (or something) was running while it was in my pocket.

Anyone else seeing this?
 
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My phone died overnight, which has never happened before. Anyone noticed any less battery life?
Ive had mine on since 5 this morning and made several phone calls and it still shows full charge. So I dont see that problem I guess.
I expect a bunch of this is just expectation getting the best of us. The factual fixes im sure are there but "my phone seems snappier" is hard to determine. I for one thought the speaker was louder when talking on it this morning and it did seem faster or something. But then again, I was trying to find something so I make myself find it. At least thats the way I see it.
 
I dont know if anyone else is experiencing this but since the 1.1.4 update my iPhone seems to weigh slightly less and it smells different! Anyone else?
 
I upgraded via Restore to 1.1.4 and used ZiPhone 2.4 without a problem.

IMHO not worth it as Summerboard needs to be written for 1.1.4.
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/4A102 Safari/419.3)

my battery is working better, so is Safari!
 
I've updated my iPod touch to 1.1.4 and Safari still crashes. When I open some tabs (three or more) all of them but the tab where I am switch blank, and they have to be reloaded.

Whyyyyyyyy??? :(

Safari does not seem any more stable/better than in 1.1.3 on my iPhone. I still see the white pages in tabs (and that was with only 2 tabs open). Safari still crashes on me. Just last night, I was reading a fully rendered page...just reading...not zooming or scrolling...just looking at the page, and Safari crashed. I've had the same issue in 1.1.3.

I have yet to experience any major improvements in 1.1.4. My guess is that this release has some minor fixes, but has put in the infrastructure to support SDK-based apps.

Oh...and one thing I'd really like Apple to fix...being able to play music from my iPhone through my Macs via iTunes. It's so hard to believe that a basic function like this - which my 3G iPod supports - isn't available on this device yet.

Ugh.

:mad:

--DotComCTO
 
I dont know if anyone else is experiencing this but since the 1.1.4 update my iPhone seems to weigh slightly less and it smells different! Anyone else?

Mine is still tasteless and odorless, but it has dropped in temperature significantly. Dropped it in a cocktail earlier with refreshing results.

Also, I have found it useful to search for my next drink (http://www.droogle.ca/ip/#_home) right out of the glass! :p
 
Oh...and one thing I'd really like Apple to fix...being able to play music from my iPhone through my Macs via iTunes. It's so hard to believe that a basic function like this - which my 3G iPod supports - isn't available on this device yet.

Set the iPhone to "manually manage music and videos" on iTunes. Then you will be able to play music through the iPhone instead of your library.
 
It was just a week behind!

It's confirmed: Apple's next event is scheduled for March 6th, next Thursday. It'll be a Town Hall event; obviously new MacBooks and MacBook Pros aren't to be expected, but the unambiguous "iPhone software roadmap" should help guide our assumptions as to what will be discussed. "Enterprise," eh?

via engadget :D
 
White Safari Tabs Still Exist

As excited as i was to hear that the white safari tab problem was gone, they still exist!!!!

:mad:
 
definitely one bug fix for starters

One of the friends I do Apple "tech support" for reports that the 1.1.4 update completely remedied his synching issues between his iPhone and Outlook. He is very pleased with the update.
 
Answer = ALL


Get serious. What smartphone currnetly on the market other than iPhone CANT send MMS!!!

Quit making excuses for apple...

I am serious. I asked how many people use MMS. And how many of the people that use MMS are in the market for a smartphone. "ALL" is not the answer to either of these questions.

The last data I saw was for a little more than a year ago. Only 14.6% of subscribers use MMS. And I would guess that most of those users are using free camera phones. Not the demographic that would buy an iPhone.

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=784513

I am not defending Apple. They don't need defending with the most successful mobile phone ever. I'm just annoyed by people thinking that just because all their friends use a feature, everybody must use it.

The only reason MMS is standard on most phones is because the carriers insist on it as a revenue stream. Apple doesn't have to do whatever the carriers tell them to because of the contract that they were able to negotiate.

One of Apple's greatest strengths is not adding every feature under the sun. Why promote a limited feature with limited carrier interoperability, when full-featured, open standard like email is available. Just because all the carriers have agreed to use a feature that is specifically crippled so that they can use it as a revenue source, doesn't mean that Apple should join them.
 
With 715 or so posts i don't know if this has been noted, but I have noticed that annoying hang in mail seems to have vanished. If the processor was busy checking one account, it would have a hard time switching to a different account.

It's Snappy! (Just thought I'd throw that in there.)
 
With 715 or so posts i don't know if this has been noted, but I have noticed that annoying hang in mail seems to have vanished. If the processor was busy checking one account, it would have a hard time switching to a different account.

It's Snappy! (Just thought I'd throw that in there.)

Hmm, I never noticed that issue to begin with and I have 3 accounts.
 
good job Baldy. My expensive phone can't do what free phones can and has been able to for almost a decade. I'm so glad that only 14.6% (which is still in the millions and millions) isn't enough people.

With your logic, why should they even bother to add any features at all? There should be an ipod button, safari, telephone, and mail button. Why add silly things like stocks or weather?

BTW, I guarantee you that there's fewer people who actually use the youtube button or the stocks button than the number of people who would use MMS.

Most people do not have e-mail capability on their phones but almost have MMS. If you want to get information to someone with media, it's a smarter idea to have MMS support. You can even e-mail using MMS. 14.6% is a high demand area. Not even 10% probably use the weather application and it's there and it makes my life easier.
 
BTW, I guarantee you that there's fewer people who actually use the youtube button or the stocks button than the number of people who would use MMS.

Most people do not have e-mail capability on their phones but almost have MMS. If you want to get information to someone with media, it's a smarter idea to have MMS support. You can even e-mail using MMS. 14.6% is a high demand area. Not even 10% probably use the weather application and it's there and it makes my life easier.

Clearly the iPhone should have MMS, but I find it hard to believe (and sad, if true) that more people who own iPhones would be using MMS than the Stock app. Maybe I am in the wrong field, and others have more use for sending or receiving low quality pictures.

The Weather app is quite useful, but I have yet to find a use for YouTube... that doesn't mean I think either or both should be removed/abandoned. Which is again why I think MMS should be added, even if it were only 4% (instead of the quoted ~14%) that use / would use it. All too often people think Apple devices should do only what they think they should do/need to do.
 
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