Why is “Writing Tools” the first thing shown in Safari’s context menu? It’s pointless and makes it harder to get at the things I actually use: “Lookup” and “Translate”.
Some manager at Apple decided that showing off a new feature was more important than usability. That’s bullshit.
/cc @gruber
The only use case I can see for this feature is plagiarism.
Select a passage in Wikipedia or wherever, and change it to make it your “own”.
Geezus. What a thing to put front and center.
@RedStateExile The problem I have with that solution is that there’s no attempt to show what, if any, changes were made.
You’re given a result and expected to trust it.
@RedStateExile Right. That’s the UI that appears in Notes when you’re actually writing.
In Safari the text isn’t editable so proofreading doesn’t show changes.
(My complaint is that writing tools aren’t appropriate for a web browser.)
@chockenberry The slop version is such awful writing, too.
If this feature had to exist at all, it should only have appeared in circumstances where you're ostensibly applying it to your own writing (Mail, text editing apps, etc). Integrating a copy-and-remix feature into an app used for consuming other peoples' work—yeah, it's obvious how this will primarily be used.
@chockenberry This has been driving me nuts. It’s a big step backwards in usability for me.
Not horrible on iPad where there is enough screen screen real estate to show more options at once. On a phone it’s horrible.
@chockenberry @gruber Nobody (or maybe its just no executive) actually uses Apple products at Apple. That is the only explanation for things like this.
There are plenty, like suddenly on iOS to browse iCloud Tabs you can only do it three at at time because they decided it was pretty to make each entry gigantic, on and for the hell of it you must scroll sideways.
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