I have complained (ad nauseum) about “crashy crashy bang bang”, a.k.a Mobile Safari. Then low and behold iPod firmware 2.2 came out. Credit where credit is due I have yet to see Mobile Safari crash once since that update. That is a big deal. Safari was one of the (for me) most heavily used apps on the device and it was crashing…a lot. I mean every 5-15 minutes. So kudos to Apple on that one.
So, now that the app is actually usable I have some niggles. These aren’t complaints, just things based on my usage scenario that would be “nice to haves”.
- “Top” button. I really like the gestures. They are very slick. I often find myself reading, and reading, and reading and now I am at the bottom of a very long page. Using the gestures to scroll back to the top of the page is a real pain the the ass. It would be nice to have a button to tap (or a gesture would be fine) to take you back to the top.
- “Mail to Me” option. I do email pages/articles quite often from Safari. But the largest portion of my emailing from within Safari comes in the form of emailing the page to myself. Probably 90% or more of the emails from Safari are to myself. I do it for multiple reasons. I don’t have time to read it now. It is applicable to my desktop so I want to read it there. The page doesn’t display correctly in Safari (flash *cough* *cough*). Or I just would rather read it on my nice big monitor. At any rate it would be nice if, in addition to the normal Mail Link button if there were one next to it that just just automatically emailed the link to your default address. No other display, nothing to select other than that button. After it’s clicked the buttons go away and you are back viewing the page.
Here’s to hoping….
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