Whenever I explain my #research at Google into mobile text editing, I'm usually met with blank stares or a slightly hostile "Everyone can edit text on their phones, right? What's the problem?"
Text editing on mobile isn't ok. It's actually much worse than you think, an invisible problem no one appreciates. I wrote this post so you can understand why it's so important.
https://jenson.org/text
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@scottjenson huh, I get intensely frustrated by text editing on mobile, especially on iOS (it's one thing that's actually better on Android, IMO). Thought that feeling was universal.
The hardest thing for me is pasting text. When you tap to bring up the contextual menu with the paste button, the cursor position often moves. Often takes me multiple tries to get it right.
I miss arrows on the iOS keyboard that allow you to move the cursor position left or right through the text!
Selecting text is also terrible. Trying to move the end markers around with fat meat nubs doesn’t work very well.
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