asked 2013-12-25 13:32:45 +0300
Hi,
damourti
answered 2013-12-28 07:17:53 +0300
I've been using a gesture based browser called Dolphin on my Jolla, and I feel that the SailfishBrowser could implement a lot from that:
Maybe a late reply but you can find APKs of Dolphin Zero in some people's app stores on Aptoide, I don't know if those are the latest versions or anything though.
nthn ( 2014-02-09 18:11:53 +0300 )answered 2014-02-09 18:04:01 +0300
I agree. Here's my suggestion for how this could work:
Combined with the double-tap to unzoom action, this makes for some very neat history navigation I believe, even after having zoomed in (double-tap and drag right, vs. summoning the bottom-bar and pressing the back button). There should probably be a bit of friction when the edge is reached to avoid accidentally triggering the back/forward actions, though.
It could function like the pulley menu does today - when you reach the top of the list the pulley menu isn't activated in the same motion as the scroll - you have to release and pull again to activate the pulley menu. Same for when you reach the browser edge when panning - you just release and pull again to activate the back/forward action. Same functionality could be implemented for going back from other panning views, like zoomed in mail view.
Mohjive ( 2014-02-09 23:27:59 +0300 )Yes, that would be nice. I imagine usually one would use the history functionality when fully zoomed out, in which case the difference doesn't matter, so requiring a second pull seems okay to me.
FireFly ( 2014-02-10 19:57:53 +0300 )answered 2014-07-10 19:20:50 +0300
I think it should be flicking to the sides for navigation, pushing to push browser aside, and pulley to close/open new tab.
Here's a good thread on making browser more geasture based: https://together.jolla.com/question/42425/feature-request-a-more-gesture-based-web-browser/
Asked: 2013-12-25 13:32:45 +0300
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This, so much. Given how much swipes are a part of Sailfish, I was pretty surprised this wasn't the case already when I initially got my hands on the device.
If webpage is zoomed out to 100%, swipes/ left/right inside the window should browse the page history forward/backwar - Even that fruit company managed to implement this feature correctly for their browser for iOS7.
Yeum ( 2013-12-25 17:53:37 +0300 )I try doing that sometimes and it takes me a while to figure out that it's not the right command.
Giacomo Di Giacomo ( 2014-02-10 00:26:38 +0300 )