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June 30, 2010
About the iPad as a Blogging Tool
The iPad is a great blog-reading tool.
So far, for me, using MovableType (see the qualifiers), it is not much use for blogging. Cut and paste is trickier than it looks between multiple browser windows. Highlighting text to apply a button (formatting or making a link) is HARD. The scrolling category list - yikes. In fact, on Mobile Safari any scrolling box filled with radio buttons is tricky; I can make those lists scroll about a third of the time (so far).
Maybe I'll get better or maybe MovableType will come out as an app - but I just did the previous entry on Mother's desktop after failing miserably three or four times to paste the quotation from Jules Crittenden.
further:
Since I'm complaining about the iPad - one problem is Mobile Safari's unchangeable (so far as I can tell) preference for new windows - you open a new window and the cursor appears in the search field, not the url field. When I open a new window I more frequently want to go to a new site, not look something up. Ugh!
Posted by CrankyProfessor at June 30, 2010 9:14 AM
Comments
I've found website editing a pain on anything that didn't have a regular keyboard and a mouse. Maybe I'm just inept, but touch-pad/touch-screen tends to be way too jumpy and imprecise. Perhaps with a stylus it might be a different matter.
.....I agree - it might be me, but I am finding it too imprecise. Point of insertion is not precise at all. --MCT
Posted by: Lucius Septimius at June 30, 2010 11:04 AM
I don't think it's you -- it's the interface. Anything touch is just way too jittery methinks.
Posted by: Lucius Septimius at June 30, 2010 11:16 PM