💾 Archived View for rawtext.club › ~sloum › geminilist › 002819.gmi captured on 2020-11-07 at 03:10:01. Gemini links have been rewritten to link to archived content
⬅️ Previous capture (2020-10-31)
-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Shadowfacts me at shadowfacts.net
Wed Sep 30 15:11:13 BST 2020
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Requests, in no particular order:
- The link-color/background color contrast is a little low in dark mode. I generally don’t have issues with contrast, but link text is a bit dark to read easily. Could you make the link text a bit lighter?
- Add titles to the buttons. Right now, when I turn on Voice Control (“hey Siri, turn on Voice Control”) and say “show names” the buttons on the bottom have names like “Arrow.clockwise”. Could these be changed to “Back”, “Forward, “Reload”, “Share”, and “Settings” (what both Overcast and PCalc use)?
Definitely.
- swipe-from-edge behavior to go back and forward
This is slightly more complicated, as I’m not using the normal iOS mechanisms that would provide this behavior, but I’ll look into it.
- Consider having a minimum 44-point height for links (this may be ugly and/or a lot of work to not be ugly). While almost all links are two rows high on my 1st-generation iPhone SE, most links are only one line on my 10.5″ iPad when it’s in landscape mode. It’s kind of tough to aim for a single line on, say, CAPCOM when any given link has two close-by neighbors. For one way to do this sort of thing, have a look at the screenshot associated with “The Best Comments Experience” on https://apolloapp.io/ — the currently-being-swiped comment is basically all one link, but there’s a nice, easy-to-hit button for it. (For Gemini, having the link _be_ that minimum-height button would probably be best, since we don’t have to worry about a bunch of consecutive words in a sentence being separate links.)
Absolutely.
- I visited <gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/tracker.webp?on=/> and the error message got ellipsis-truncated, not wrapped. I had to rotate my phone 90° to read the entire message. (I’m not sure _why_ it failed, but WebP is the new kid on the block when it comes to WebKit support. I blame its newness.)
I’ll look into the error message being truncated, but WebP isn’t supported at all by iOS.
- Fix the share-button crash that seems to happen only on my iPad (Apple should get those crash reports to you; if not, ping me and I’ll see if I can dig them out of my iPad the old-fashioned way).
I haven’t seen that crash report, but I know what the issue is.
- Aim assist (that’s what console FPS players call it, at least; Apple seems to call it “Magnetism") doesn’t seem to work for trackpad cursors. That is, the proxy fingertip won’t snap to the outline of the bottom-bar buttons like it will for Safari’s buttons. You can (kinda) see this effect on https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211008 on the second screenshot, er, screenmovie.
Definitely doable.
Once again, Rocketeer is absolutely wonderful. Thank you again for making it.
Thanks, I’m glad you’re enjoying it! I’ll try to push a new beta later today with fixes for most of these.