Peter Cohen"I gave 10 participants a simple set of text editing tasks, such as deleting an “x” from a string of characters or moving a word to the end of a sentence. Every single person had problems with targeting, using the clipboard and lots and lots of errors."
Nate Barham@flargh Totally agree that mobile text editing is in a pathetic state considering how long we’ve had iPhone-like devices. However, their Eloquent solution relies on hardware functionality that is not standard on modern devices (the “hard press”).
Unless maybe I misunderstood?
Double-tap drag would be a more universal way to invoke the clipboard actions, wouldn’t it?
Also, I just discovered that you can *already* drag the clipboard menu options on iOS 17. Not sure how long that’s been there!
@flargh And, this whole thing just makes me sad that 3D-touch is gone. 😕
Loved that for dragging/placing the cursor! Even the new “Fast” haptic touch is still way too slow. I get errors with it all the time where it thinks I’m trying to swipe type (three times editing this post).
Matt Birchler@NateBarham @flargh Was gonna say the same thing. Some of these suggestions are repackaging that 3D Touch had on the 6S.
I’d love to see a version of their video with someone actually using the app. It sounded complicated, but maybe that’s just the description.
@NateBarham @flargh Yeah, the video is what I found kinda hard to follow.