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Atomic Web Browser now supports the iPad

I was going to post about digg crashing but im happy you already fixed it for the next update.

Also could you create a setting to show the location and search bar in fullscreen? Or have a gesture to bring them up quickly. I know i dont have to use fullscreen but i dont like the toolbar when not in fullscreen. Its too big. And i like customizing my own fullscreen buttons. Maybe make the non- fullscreen toolbar smaller and customizable.
 
vertigo78 said:
I was going to post about digg crashing but im happy you already fixed it for the next update.

Also could you create a setting to show the location and search bar in fullscreen? Or have a gesture to bring them up quickly. I know i dont have to use fullscreen but i dont like the toolbar when not in fullscreen. Its too big. And i like customizing my own fullscreen buttons. Maybe make the non- fullscreen toolbar smaller and customizable.
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Access to the URL and Search bar is on my todo list but currently a low priority. I may move it up as I think this is an important feature for the iPhone version.


BTW Doug from http://dougitdesign.com/ just sent me a preview of the new logo he's doing for me. I think everyone will like it. It better then anything I could have imagined :)
 
Great to see developers having a thread to keep such close contact with the customers.

Atomic browser has been my favourite on my iPhone. There is however one problem that I like to see fixed there. When I hold down the backspace keep to delete characters, the copy and paste pop up appears which is annyoing.

Could you fix this problem in the next release please?
 
AtomicBrowser said:
the next release (v2.8) will be mainly bug fixes.
Completed changes:
-Improved long press consistency
-3 finger tap enters/exits full screen mode
-fixed crash with digg when adblock ia turned on
-fixed video playing when tab is closed
-Added iPad and iPhone User Agents.
-Added option to make gestures shorter
-Made bookmarks a popup that doesn't take the whole screen.
-fixed some freezing instances

The following release (v3.0) will contain new features and UI enhancements.
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Does the "Improved long press consistency"-change include the position of the "open in tab"-submenu? With this version, the box appears everywhere besides underneath where I press.

Also, many-imagestabs causes a crash too.

Would it be possible to save the state more often? So if it crash you still know where you're left?
 
Happy to hear about the updates.

One thing I love about the iCab browser that I'd really like to see in Atomic is an option so that you can just tap a link and a popup comes up allowing you to "open normally, open in new tab, open in background tab". This works with just a regular short tap in iCab (no need to tap and hold) and makes it much easier to open links in new tabs. Including a screenshot to better illustrate.

140777-icaboptions_original.png


Hope this can be added to Atomic. Thanks again.
 
AtomicBrowser said:
This is a Apple feature to make it easier to add contacts. . If text looks like valid phone number, UIWebView will make it a link and display the contacts options.

Safari has the same issue with the site. The post numbers aren't actually links so I don't believe any functionality is lost although I do agree it is confusing.
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Take a look at the UIWebView documentation:
@property(nonatomic) UIDataDetectorTypes dataDetectorTypes

Clarksonator
 
dhgamer said:
Happy to hear about the updates.

One thing I love about the iCab browser that I'd really like to see in Atomic is an option so that you can just tap a link and a popup comes up allowing you to "open normally, open in new tab, open in background tab". This works with just a regular short tap in iCab (no need to tap and hold) and makes it much easier to open links in new tabs. Including a screenshot to better illustrate.

140777-icaboptions_original.png


Hope this can be added to Atomic. Thanks again.
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Interesting. I am not sure I like that absent it being an option in the settings like "always ask where to open links" which the makes every quick press pull up that menu. It woud be tedious for every click to have to choose.

I wonder if the os allows you to do like a hold click option similar to a control click on the Mac. For example, to open a link in a new tab u hold one finger on the ipad screen while clicking a link with the other. Same functionality as new trackpads. That would be killer solution.
 
spammerhamster said:
Does the "Improved long press consistency"-change include the position of the "open in tab"-submenu? With this version, the box appears everywhere besides underneath where I press.

Also, many-imagestabs causes a crash too.

Would it be possible to save the state more often? So if it crash you still know where you're left?
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What is an imagetab? Are you referring to saving an image?
 
Thanks for the api sample. I know I can disable the behavior of detecting links but I'm not sure I want to. Maybe i'll add it as an option. I don't like to remove functionality which was in previous version.

clarksonator said:
Take a look at the UIWebView documentation:
@property(nonatomic) UIDataDetectorTypes dataDetectorTypes

Clarksonator
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dhy8386 said:
Interesting. I am not sure I like that absent it being an option in the settings like "always ask where to open links" which the makes every quick press pull up that menu. It woud be tedious for every click to have to choose.
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You can still tap-and-hold to bring up the standard menu or turn it off completely. It's the one feature that keeps icab browser on my phone. Makes browsing forums & threads much nicer as I can hit the links and have them open in the background automatically while I browse down the rest of the forum page. When I'm done reading a thread I close that page. No need to flip from forum to thread and back and wait for reloading. Also, the threads I'm interested in are loaded and ready to read in the background.

Much easier to tap some of the smaller forum links (like page #) instead of having to tap and hold.
 
dhy8386 said:
Interesting. I am not sure I like that absent it being an option in the settings like "always ask where to open links" which the makes every quick press pull up that menu. It woud be tedious for every click to have to choose.

I wonder if the os allows you to do like a hold click option similar to a control click on the Mac. For example, to open a link in a new tab u hold one finger on the ipad screen while clicking a link with the other. Same functionality as new trackpads. That would be killer solution.
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I do have opening links options on my todo list but it is currently a very low priority. I've only had 2 requests for it since January(3 now). The next version will have a faster press and hold gesture. I reduced it from 1 second to .5. Hopefully that will solve the problem.

dhy8386, The sdk doesn't have any type of gesture like that. It can be coded however. The only problem would be to try and fit 2 fingers on a link.
 
AtomicBrowser said:
I do have opening links options on my todo list but it is currently a very low priority. I've only had 2 requests for it since January(3 now). The next version will have a faster press and hold gesture. I reduced it from 1 second to .5. Hopefully that will solve the problem.

dhy8386, The sdk doesn't have any type of gesture like that. It can be coded however. The only problem would be to try and fit 2 fingers on a link.
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Not quite what i was saying. Like on apple trackpad and similar with gestures It can detect if one finger pressing or two or three. If you could make it so say I put one finger down on iPad anywhere (not on the link persay) and then click the link it would make it much more like a right click and personally i think better than any click to hold option. One click no finger is a left click, one finger down plus click does whatever you code it to do (menu of options, new tab, etc)
 
dhy8386 said:
Not quite what i was saying. Like on apple trackpad and similar with gestures It can detect if one finger pressing or two or three. If you could make it so say I put one finger down on iPad anywhere (not on the link persay) and then click the link it would make it much more like a right click and personally i think better than any click to hold option. One click no finger is a left click, one finger down plus click does whatever you code it to do (menu of options, new tab, etc)
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Thats a great idea: two finger click opens new window..no wait no pain...awesome idea
 
Richard, any idea when the update will go live?

EVERYBODY: GO SEE THE NEW ATOMIC BROWSER LOGO/ICON, IT IS FEATURED AT THE VISUAL DESIGNER'S SITE....:)
 
dhgamer said:
You can still tap-and-hold to bring up the standard menu or turn it off completely. It's the one feature that keeps icab browser on my phone. Makes browsing forums & threads much nicer as I can hit the links and have them open in the background automatically while I browse down the rest of the forum page. When I'm done reading a thread I close that page. No need to flip from forum to thread and back and wait for reloading. Also, the threads I'm interested in are loaded and ready to read in the background.

Much easier to tap some of the smaller forum links (like page #) instead of having to tap and hold.
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I agree with this 100% this would be the icing on the cake, great for reading forums, which I do daly.
 
doug in albq said:
Richard, any idea when the update will go live?

EVERYBODY: GO SEE THE NEW ATOMIC BROWSER LOGO/ICON, IT IS FEATURED AT THE VISUAL DESIGNER'S SITE....:)
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Doug. Three words. That is awesome. Elegant, different but still retains professional idevice app look
 
AtomicBrowser said:
I do have opening links options on my todo list but it is currently a very low priority. I've only had 2 requests for it since January(3 now). The next version will have a faster press and hold gesture. I reduced it from 1 second to .5. Hopefully that will solve the problem.

dhy8386, The sdk doesn't have any type of gesture like that. It can be coded however. The only problem would be to try and fit 2 fingers on a link.
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Where's the request list then. Add me too it.

Instead of two fingers tab. I'd ask for a button somewhere in the toolbar. When that is activated, every linkclick will open tabs (in the background or not according to the settings).

That way, people can just chose to use it or not. (would it be possible to show the available ram too)
 
doug in albq said:
Richard, any idea when the update will go live?

EVERYBODY: GO SEE THE NEW ATOMIC BROWSER LOGO/ICON, IT IS FEATURED AT THE VISUAL DESIGNER'S SITE....:)
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It is up to apple now. 2.8 was submitted Sunday night.

I'm working on some UI Changes now for the following release.
 
spammerhamster said:
Where's the request list then. Add me too it.

Instead of two fingers tab. I'd ask for a button somewhere in the toolbar. When that is activated, every linkclick will open tabs (in the background or not according to the settings).

That way, people can just chose to use it or not. (would it be possible to show the available ram too)
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That toggle button idea would work for me too. Hope to see it implemented soon.

The new logo is a HUGE improvement too :) Nice!
 
AtomicBrowser said:
Thanks. I have no problems with that page with the next version. However, If i load the same page twice I get apples memory warning notification. The iPad has a small amount of RAM compared to a desktop pc and once that is full the iphone os will close the app. I believe that is what you may be seeing.
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Hmm.. I wonder if there are ways to reduce memory footprint then.
Or could you just save the state when you get the mem-warning? I've lost my tabs a couple of times already....
 
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