> I was just wondering if we had any developers on this list who could > create > an app for the android platform (Or is it an OS? Or are those two the same > thing? :p) that would allow posting to DW and/or cross-posting to LJ. I > wanted to put a bug in someone's ear if that was something they could do > and > if they had oodles of time to do it. ;) > > - Chasy. >
Oh god, seconded by MILES. The G1's browser is just this side of painful for working to post anything longer than a paragraph or two. Heck, I would even take a specialized DW browser thingy that let me read my friends page and read posts and stuff without worrying about how long it'll take the G1 browser to render their themes, and how crazy their stuff will look when rendered. That said, I doubt any client will ever be able to get around the flaws of even the best phone hardware around today. The G1 and the iPhone alike are both horrendous to use for entering <160-character messages/text of any kind. This is half because the small keyboards and touchscreens and so forth make text entry difficult because of the badly handled transition from reading to editing a field of text, and half because there's no adequate, fine-grained control for moving your cursor to where it needs to be to let you fix a spelling mistake or add a tag or two. A client could ease the editing pain by say, breaking up the steps in which you write a post into something roughly like this: - Step 1: write your post - Step 2: add title, tags, etc - Step 3: preview. Freely switch back and forth between all three steps until you're happy with what you've got. This wouldn't necessarily need to be the only way to write a post--you could also have a quick post type thing with everything on one page, and no preview, so that people who just want to post, I dunno, "bears rule, tigers drool :PPP" can go ahead and do that, and people who want to write a treatise on the ruleage of bears can also do that in a way that keeps them sane. -- Quivo ------------------------- Quivo @ LJ ------------------------- _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
