Hi,
I didn't know in which forum to place this post, hopefully this is the right one.
I have had Hermes for a couple of months now and I use many programs to read stuff like RSS feeds and books on it. I am very disappointed with how scrolling to the next page is solved in these programs.
I dread turning pages because I always lose track of the sentence I am on. The programs that use the scrolling wheel to jump through links are especially unergonomic because you can never predict where they will jump. But those that simply turn the page are just as bad.
This problem could easily be solved by having the last line on the screen turn yellow or blink or something when you push the page down button. That way when the new screen is rendered you would still know where you are. This would speed up reading for me immensly and also make it more enjoyable. If someone knows of a program that has scrolling implemented this way please let me know.
Eh? what bout setting your jogdial so when you click it down, it scrolls it down to the next page. That's how I have my iSilo setup.
Even so you have at least one moment that breaks your concentration: when you reach the last page a page down doesn't move an entire page down, but less. When you read RSS-ed articles which are usually 1-5 pages long this gets really annoying really quickly.
At least using the standard RSS reader. I'm hoping there is something better out there.
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I notice that sometimes android will automatically refresh a web page, one situation that it happens the most is when I am browsing the internet and open a new window from my current page, after browsing the new window and closing it, the original page gets refreshed.
Is there a way to disable this? I dont want it to refresh unless I tell it to, and its really annoying.
I guess the browser simply give up previous page when you open a new window. this is a measure to save memory and increase efficiency. a simple solution is to use a third party broswer like opera mobile.
What's worse is sites that do a perma refresh on a page. The new faceook (non mobile) is an example of that. Totally unuseable with the Android browser
i hate the auto refresh crap. especially if im google reader.
Any news on this?
billc.cn said:
I guess the browser simply give up previous page when you open a new window. this is a measure to save memory and increase efficiency. a simple solution is to use a third party broswer like opera mobile.
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Except that is SHOWS you the entire page just fine for a second, then refreshes.
Extremely annoying on EDGE especially.
I have no idea how one would go about fixing this, get into the browser code I guess.
I, alas, am no developer, but I'll donate 10 bux toward a developer fixing this, lol.
Ya that auto refresh is terrible, all it does is slow everything down since i only get edge
Most annoying part of android. I hate it to an unmeasurable degree.
I hate opera, as well as any other browser I have seen so far.
I hate this crap too. If someone can hack multi-touch into the browser, surely this can be fixed.
ya come on we need this fixed
JakobFriedrich said:
ya come on we need this fixed
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This is a caching issue. It has been discussed many times. Use the swapper script if it really is that important to you.
and "we" need to fix this? Yeah, I'm sure you're going to contribute a whole lot.
wow i'm really sorry, i know i can't do **** about it thats why i hope you guys help me i couldn't find a link with the swapper script
so if you could tell me that and how to apply it i would love you
+1 this problem also really bothers me, hopefully someone can put something together.
generic node i'm waiting fofr your help
Search the forums.
thank you so much generic node i owe you one for that
so i searched for g1 swapper script so if i just run that script the webpage won't auto refresh or what
I'm sorry in advance about this question, its answer will probably be humiliating for me
DISCLAIMER: I'm not using Dream, but instead an alpha 1.5 build for the Blackstone. I realize this could be the problem.
Anyway: I'm trying to find stuff in the Market, however, most searches end up with some hundreds of results while I can only see about 8-9 of them in the scroll pane. I can't flick scroll below that however hard I try.
Which is the "normal" way of browsing through applications from the handset, e.g. skipping to the next page of results? Is it a hardware button I don't have because of Blackstone?
Thanks.
The normal method is to just keep scrolling, it should load a bunch of other results. Then when you get to the end, it loads some more and you can just keep scrolling until you reach the last result. That's how it's supposed to work, no hardware button or pages.
Just as flobin said. Side note, if you want to just look around the Market you can use Cyrket. Find what you're looking for then just search for the name from your Market app.
Thanks, now I know it's some sort of mis-function by my build.
hello every one please help me with this issue, when i try to read pages with a lot of content like engadget,espn ect opera and ie wont stop moving down or up its like it got a mind of his own how can i fix. this the third and the best rom i flash(miri) and try all the difrent opera browser please help i want to work the same way it work here on xda. thanks
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had the same issue, it drove me crazy and i started using RSS readers instead
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hello every one please help me with this issue, when i try to read pages with a lot of content like engadget,espn ect opera and ie wont stop moving down or up its like it got a mind of his own how can i fix. this the third and the best rom i flash(miri) and try all the difrent opera browser please help i want to work the same way it work here on xda. thanks
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I'm not sure I understand your problem: Are you talking about the fact that the page continues to move around WHILE LOADING the page? Or is the page moving around even after it is done loading?
its after the page finishes loading. when you zoom in on a pargraph and start reading, suddenly the browser would shift down a couple of line.
Its annoying because you dont know what happened or how many lines were skipped and you have to manually scroll back
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its after the page finishes loading. when you zoom in on a pargraph and start reading, suddenly the browser would shift down a couple of line.
Its annoying because you dont know what happened or how many lines were skipped and you have to manually scroll back
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That's odd, I don't think I ever encountered that. What version of Opera are you using?
The OP is saying that the browser re-renders the page on a pinch-to-zoom command, thus bypassing the intended view for some reason - which happens with me as well.
My suggestion would be (from the Opera browser) going into Menu-->Settings--Display and changing the default view to Mobile which should provide a better experience for you. Keep in mind that the ability to zoom is disabled in this feature.
when you view engadget via opera, the top area where they show their most popular news continues to rotate through the possible headers.
For some reason, on opera mobile these 'headers' have different size, so as it switches, the page moves 'up' and 'down.' I'm guessing this is the same issue on espn. I'm not sure if this is opera's fault or flash lite's.
Also, the other possibility is that sometimes opera might still be loading the images, so the page would move down (but never up).
I am just having the hardest time making my craigslist ads which require me to cut and past the URLs of my photobucket images. I also need to edit in HTML into the posts and this is proving to be a nightmare on the transformer. In tablet form or docked.
It seems that I can't just click to place the cursor exactly where I want it and the cursor seems to always be moving to places I don't want it. Also trying to cut and paste works great sometimes and others it just seems unusable.
Should I maybe use a text editing app and then just cut and paste it over? Can anyone relate to the things I'm talking about? I'm new to Honeycomb so maybe there are a lot of little tricks I don't know yet.
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getting a stylus may help with the fine aiming of moving the cursor. and if it moves around you may be hitting the trackpad so try turning that off.
but for what your doing, it may be best to make it all in a text editor and then copy/paste it in the browser.
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getting a stylus may help with the fine aiming of moving the cursor. and if it moves around you may be hitting the trackpad so try turning that off.
but for what your doing, it may be best to make it all in a text editor and then copy/paste it in the browser.
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Any suggestions for text editor apps?
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well the included polaris will work pretty good, color note and basically any other note pad app will as well.
there are a couple apps that can make and create .txt documents and those should work as well.
Ill look around, thanks.
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Just an update.
I am currently using Opera forced in desktop mode only. This is the fastest scolling and zooming browser there is. The only thing I hate is how opera functions when selecting text off of a page to copy. It is really cheap. I also like the fact that I can add any search engine to the browser. I couldnt stand how every time I did a Google search it would search through Google mobile, so I just added the main Google search and all was fixed.
Typing on forums has been a breeze for the most part with opera, now if I can just find a way to use the Native copy and paste on web pages it will be almost perfect. At least when editing text or web page URLs it uses the native highlight feature.
In response to the cursor moving, I have that problem and am pretty sure it has to do with the mousepad being set up for "touch to click". On a fullsize laptop, no big deal, but on the smaller keyboard I keep hitting it. As a result, that disable-mouse button gets a ton of use from me.
It was doing it to me while editing on the screen as well. It doesn't seem to be doing it with opera though so Im happy about that.
One weird thing I have noticed as too is that if I really get going and start typing fast, the keyboard will register double I inputs twice. So for example if I type the word that, it will sometimes show as ththat. This only happens when im typing at full pace though and only sometimes. I went to Verizon today to play with a zoom and couldn't get the zoom to recreate this issue, it was only running 3.0 also.
If you are talking about the same thing I'm thinking about, I think this is just a general Android bug. My 2.3.4 phone does it and the stock browser on my TF does it. I have a guess it has to do with text wrapping... but no idea if that's really it.
An easy way to see why I think it seems to be a text wrap issue is by zooming in a little and typing a few lines of text, then try to edit it. Then pull up the green caret move handle thing and notice that it moves where you didn't place it.
Another way is to get a keyboard with arrow keys (thumb keyboard) and select one line and press the down key... it sometimes jumps a line or two. Almost certain its because of the text reflow. I wish you could turn it off or Google would fix it. I HATE working on a long forum post or Outlook Web App on my phone because textarea editing is just a horrible experience.
Finally, I, too use Opera... I'm not a fan, but its the only browser fast enough and that doesn't try to reflow ANY text area. No other browser, that I know, uses text areas that do not reflow.
I completely agree about Opera.
So I started taking notes...
- S NOTE: It works great, feels great.
The 3 finger gesture is retarded for sure. (The one that hides / shows toolbars.)
But. How do you deal with the new page thing?
Like I write up a task or anything... and I'm already at the end of the page.
Lecture Notes let me see two pages at once, so it's like a huge endless toilet pape that I can write on. (what a reference!)
It's not an issue AFTER I'm done taking notes, but if I work on a problem, I'd like to see the whole equation I wrote up, instead of switching between pages.
- Lecture Notes: Works kinda great, but performance issues/weird scrolling.
So...
-- When I scroll, the page x / y shows, and the scroll is god-damn slow. It's really slow, like laggy as crap.
I tried the "fast temporary render" option, using it like that. But it didn't help.
-- I enabled the hardware stylus detection, but like 20% of the times, the screen jumps around when I try to write on it. I'm holding the pen close as possible, and then place down my palm.
Do you guys have a solution for these, or a better app?
I have zero issues with Lecture Notes. There is an entire thread on this topic on the front page of the themes / apps forum here. I would refer to it and read it. I bet there are fixes for each of your issues. Also, I would ask for help there to avoid yet another S Note vs. Lecture Notes thread.
Edit: Link to other conversation: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2473844
Thread closed as per OP's request.