Hi Scott R,
Long time no see!
(due to my absence from another forum)...
While I agreed for the most part with what you said before trying the iPhone, I must say that I'm very impressed with how it does what it does within its paradigm. The zooming on the content when double-clicking is quite intelligent and almost always fits the text you want to read to the width of the display. Double-clicking again gets you back to full view. It's much more intelligent than I thought it would be. I am yet to find that I need to scroll left to right to read anything. Yes, while in the full web page view in some web sites, the text is sometimes too small, although you're very often able to see the headings of a section and decide if you want to read it.
Actually what I personally find most annoying is having to do relatively a lot just to scroll the page to continue reading (stroke the screen rather then click a button). You can't do it all with one hand and you have to stroke the screen correctly or you get off of the linear reading mode.
But, alas, this is Apple land... the iPhone does many things quite well but if you want to do them differently, you're likely not to be able to. All in all, though, I am amazed of how usable this mobile browser is.
Long time no see!
(due to my absence from another forum)...While I agreed for the most part with what you said before trying the iPhone, I must say that I'm very impressed with how it does what it does within its paradigm. The zooming on the content when double-clicking is quite intelligent and almost always fits the text you want to read to the width of the display. Double-clicking again gets you back to full view. It's much more intelligent than I thought it would be. I am yet to find that I need to scroll left to right to read anything. Yes, while in the full web page view in some web sites, the text is sometimes too small, although you're very often able to see the headings of a section and decide if you want to read it.
Actually what I personally find most annoying is having to do relatively a lot just to scroll the page to continue reading (stroke the screen rather then click a button). You can't do it all with one hand and you have to stroke the screen correctly or you get off of the linear reading mode.
But, alas, this is Apple land... the iPhone does many things quite well but if you want to do them differently, you're likely not to be able to. All in all, though, I am amazed of how usable this mobile browser is.
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