same here, this is crazy 🙂
Although, I dont see how you would ever get in this situation as after a "period" you would put a space before typing a capital letter.
or you could just tap "space" twice to have the iphone automatically type a period and a space followed by capitalising the next letter you type? thats what I do.
no excuse though, it is deffo a bug that needs a fix! 🙂
Am I the only person who goes back to add needed words to sentences or makes corrections before submitting?
😉 It happens all the time when editing typed text and making corrections. In fact, I laid out a much more specific/thorough example until it did it to me.
Basically, I had an unintentional line break that I did not notice until I was typing a couple lines beneath it (I noticed that the previous line had broken at a point much earlier than my subsequent lines). It had created this line break between the words, auto-corrected to add a period after the first word, and then auto-capitalized the second one on the new line. Only the unintentional line break might have been directly caused by me. Before resetting my insertion point to fix it, I decided to explain another problem first and then go back to correct it so that I might only have to reset my insertion point once before finalizing and submitting the post. This is something that any PC browser would have handled FLAWLESSLY. Instead, here is what happened: I reset my insertion point before the upper-case letter on the second word and attempted to clear it and the line-break before retyping the letter. It then started back-spacing out of control despite being separated with a line-break. Hitting the caps key canceled but not before back-spacing over several words. I found it to be quite topical and decided to reset my insertion point at the bottom of the post to describe it and encountered the other problem I had just described: If the area you want to type in is not visible in the text box, it is impossible to move the insertion point to it (the magnifying glass will not scroll the text and there are no scroll bars or arrow keys). Luckily, this forum had the ability to enlarge the text area which can sometimes be used to get all text visible within the text box, so I used it (double-down arrows in the toolbar above). I then reset my insertion point at the end by backing out of the text entry on-screen keyboard and tapped to begin entering text at the bottom only to find that the browser crashed after a couple letters.
ARGH! I encountered three common problems when typing ONE FRICKIN' POST and yet it seems that a large amount of people "can't see the problem" in the real-world. There are either a lack of real-world examples or people simply aren't reporting them. Double-tapping space to insert a period doesn't solve the problem, as I have demonstrated. If you use the web at all, you will encounter these problems often. This didn't even mention the common problem with the page scrolling to the top between every typed letter, which happens to me in three out of five forum post message/body text fields (among others; title, email, etc). To be more descriptive, the small view of the text input area jumps to the top of the page and back down with each letter typed.
I got the iPhone 3G for its ubiquitous access to the Internet and the web so that I could stop using Remote Desktop from to connect to my home computer for my video game news and forum posting (from work with a mostly secured Internet connection). Guess how I've been forced to write this post? I tried. I really tried. There was simply no way I was going to risk typing all that AGAIN on an iPhone. It has crashed on me at least four times today alone.
