While I personally find most mobile devices (smart phones in particular) to be abominations I do think that you have plenty of valid points. Mainly in the places where the low-powered computing aspects are relevant. That said I do think that the practice that I have seen pushed so hard by many large tech companies of removing functionality form products because it doesn't work on the current paradigm of mobile interface is short sighted to the point of being actively harmful to the future by teaching a generation of technology users that if you can't do something on a 5 inch touch screen than you can't do it. The short version is that I think it is good that people are developing for a new thing, I think that it is horrible that people are actively advocating dropping any alternative in favor of something that has been deliberately designed to be limited. But that is a rant for another time.
I can not effectively use touch screens, I don't feel that in general they can be used effectively in the way that other interface paradigms can be, but they tend to be unresponsive and inconsistent when I try to use them. It may be something about my fingers. This probably colors my view of the subject. But because of this the only experiences I get are a powerful desktop, a variety of raspberry pi-based computers and a 14" tablet with an active stylus. So I have next to no idea what on my site does or doesn't work on anything smaller than that. I imagine that anything with tables is going to be horrible and the menu at the top is more or less unusable on most phones or smaller tablets. Recently, because of my work with the raspberry pis and embedded computing, I have been paying much more attention to computational load, and I am going to be working on creating some distributed mesh networks which is going to make limiting throughput important. I am hoping to use the pouchdb things you have made to make everything work better. I would like to add more to tiddlywiki to help create things that can be easily used on a variety of screens. In my opinion the problem is that we (as in developers/designers in general) haven't worked out rules for what works and what doesn't yet. The general reaction being pushed is, as you said, "mobile first, forget about desktop focus on mobile, mobile rules!" which ignores anything other than mobile and on general principle I can't support something that intentionally limits people. I want something that works as well on a mobile device as on a desktop, but as long as the accepted way to do that is to cripple the desktop version I am not going to be involved. I am not very good at UI design in general and I haven't had much success and I am trying to get some of the designer people I work with to start focusing on the topic. Nothing has come from it yet though. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/0fbfd4ba-21f7-4c6a-bc1c-43090130003c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
