04.30
So, I’ve had my iPad for almost 24 hrs. What do I think so far?
The key board – haven’t quite gotten used to it. It might be the same, technically, as the iPhone or iPod touch keyboard but it doesn’t feel the same when using it. On the iPhone, my fingers are so big that I have to use it and just believe that I’ll hit the correct key.and I do but it feels a bit like magic. On the iPad? I have to pay a bit more attention to the keyboard.
And I really want some arrow keys. I’m having real problems moving the insertion point in text boxes. Mostly because the text is so small. That being another gripe. The text being small on an iPhone makes sense because the device is small. But a lot of these iPhone apps modified for the iPad don’t allow me to change the font size. Instead, I’m stuck with iPhone sized fonts. I don’t remember seeing a default font size setting for the iPad. Hopefully that will be in iOS 4.0 (no, I haven’t looked. I haven’t had a chance to really dig into it yet.)
Font size in Mobile Safari is another issue. I want it to work like it does in regular Safari or even Firefox — increase just the font size, not the whole viewport. (In grown-up Safari it’s “View-Zoom Text Only”) Some websites provide that on their pages but not all. In some cases I can do the double-tap to zoom in on a chunk of text but that only works if the page uses markup elements that make sense.
Pages – a similar problem – I want the text to be zoomable but not permanently but I can’t find a way to do it.
Looks like all of my problems would be solved by text being zoomable. My insertion point issue would also work better with larger display fonts. Now I just to tell Apple.
(more to say on actual apps and usage later…)
