Hi,
Has anyone found a browser that allows you to read the on line archives of the New Yorker magazine? The built in browser only shows part of each page and does not let you move the screen around to see the rest of the page. Have tried all the UA strings but no joy.
I did find that I could read using the Dolphin browser as long as I use the URL of archives.newyorker.com/ipad and set the UA string to ipad though the display is still less than ideal. Sometimes portrait mode single page display shows the full page but reduced in size to about 75% of normal so it does not fill the screen and the type is quite small. Other times it does actually fill the screen but has a flashing white bar at the bottom.
Perhaps someone who is more familiar with Dolphin can suggest what adjustments to the settings in Dolphin will optimize the view. I'm perfectly happy using the built in browser for everything but the New Yorker and Dolphin for only the New Yorker if I could just get it to display clearly on a consistent basis. In Dolphin's page content settings, I have text size set to Large and Default Zoom set to Medium. I switched the ipad applet settings so that portrait mode shows a single page - just wish I could get rid of the flashing white line at the bottom.
On the other hand, clearly the people at the magazine don't care about Android users since the display in most Android browsers has been garbled since the first time I checked, a year or more ago but they were quick to jump on the iApple tablet bandwagon with a page optimized just for the iApple. Even the archives on DVD don't display properly when saved as a PDF since they're actually djvu files so I can say New Yorker hasn't exactly been technology-savvy or else they just want to keep selling dead-tree magazines even though they finally have a chance to ditch the paper, ink, and distribution/postage costs with a digital model if they could just embrace modern browsers and tablets.
Rob
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I've been using the Opera Personality Switcher so that I can view iPhone sites on my TP2 (they usually have more features). the personality switcher works great but the pages scale weird since the iPhone has a different resolution than the TP2. and i've found that when i allow pages to load in portrait mode, it also cuts some stuff off.
so i was wondering if anyone knows a way to have the browser just zoom out/shrink to fit instead of trying to rearrange stuff to fit to keep the content the way it's supposed to be? i still want it to be able to adjust text and stuff but i don't want it to do it until i tell it to zoom basically.
it should be version 9.7 although i'm not sure exactly the revision number since the latest MightyRom i installed didn't have a change log.
ok nvm. i know i didn't really give people a chance to respond but i seem to have found an answer. i didn't realize that Opera Mobile 10 had gone final (i had the beta before but it was too buggy to be my default) so i upgraded to that as my default browser and it handles the scaling exactly how i want it to.
I am just having the hardest time making my craigslist ads which require me to cut and past the URLs of my photobucket images. I also need to edit in HTML into the posts and this is proving to be a nightmare on the transformer. In tablet form or docked.
It seems that I can't just click to place the cursor exactly where I want it and the cursor seems to always be moving to places I don't want it. Also trying to cut and paste works great sometimes and others it just seems unusable.
Should I maybe use a text editing app and then just cut and paste it over? Can anyone relate to the things I'm talking about? I'm new to Honeycomb so maybe there are a lot of little tricks I don't know yet.
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getting a stylus may help with the fine aiming of moving the cursor. and if it moves around you may be hitting the trackpad so try turning that off.
but for what your doing, it may be best to make it all in a text editor and then copy/paste it in the browser.
neok44 said:
getting a stylus may help with the fine aiming of moving the cursor. and if it moves around you may be hitting the trackpad so try turning that off.
but for what your doing, it may be best to make it all in a text editor and then copy/paste it in the browser.
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Any suggestions for text editor apps?
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well the included polaris will work pretty good, color note and basically any other note pad app will as well.
there are a couple apps that can make and create .txt documents and those should work as well.
Ill look around, thanks.
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Just an update.
I am currently using Opera forced in desktop mode only. This is the fastest scolling and zooming browser there is. The only thing I hate is how opera functions when selecting text off of a page to copy. It is really cheap. I also like the fact that I can add any search engine to the browser. I couldnt stand how every time I did a Google search it would search through Google mobile, so I just added the main Google search and all was fixed.
Typing on forums has been a breeze for the most part with opera, now if I can just find a way to use the Native copy and paste on web pages it will be almost perfect. At least when editing text or web page URLs it uses the native highlight feature.
In response to the cursor moving, I have that problem and am pretty sure it has to do with the mousepad being set up for "touch to click". On a fullsize laptop, no big deal, but on the smaller keyboard I keep hitting it. As a result, that disable-mouse button gets a ton of use from me.
It was doing it to me while editing on the screen as well. It doesn't seem to be doing it with opera though so Im happy about that.
One weird thing I have noticed as too is that if I really get going and start typing fast, the keyboard will register double I inputs twice. So for example if I type the word that, it will sometimes show as ththat. This only happens when im typing at full pace though and only sometimes. I went to Verizon today to play with a zoom and couldn't get the zoom to recreate this issue, it was only running 3.0 also.
If you are talking about the same thing I'm thinking about, I think this is just a general Android bug. My 2.3.4 phone does it and the stock browser on my TF does it. I have a guess it has to do with text wrapping... but no idea if that's really it.
An easy way to see why I think it seems to be a text wrap issue is by zooming in a little and typing a few lines of text, then try to edit it. Then pull up the green caret move handle thing and notice that it moves where you didn't place it.
Another way is to get a keyboard with arrow keys (thumb keyboard) and select one line and press the down key... it sometimes jumps a line or two. Almost certain its because of the text reflow. I wish you could turn it off or Google would fix it. I HATE working on a long forum post or Outlook Web App on my phone because textarea editing is just a horrible experience.
Finally, I, too use Opera... I'm not a fan, but its the only browser fast enough and that doesn't try to reflow ANY text area. No other browser, that I know, uses text areas that do not reflow.
I completely agree about Opera.
I find that the 5.3 inch high definition screen on the Note means there is usually no need for panning and zooming whilst Web browsing. I normally see a whole Web page in portrait view and if the text is too small to read or select with a finger then landscape view plus the S-Pen usually works. I am using the Dolphin browser where you can easily select Desktop and full page viewing. Of course a large Tablet is better, but no use for carrying around as a phone.
it would be much better if the default browser had a more permanent way of defaulting to desktop versions of pages.
but with other browsers, its a better experience.
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I find that the 5.3 inch high definition screen on the Note means there is usually no need for panning and zooming whilst Web browsing. I normally see a whole Web page in portrait view and if the text is too small to read or select with a finger then landscape view plus the S-Pen usually works. I am using the Dolphin browser where you can easily select Desktop and full page viewing. Of course a large Tablet is better, but no use for carrying around as a phone.
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I have the same setup and find the experience a pleasant one.
Gaugerer said:
I find that the 5.3 inch high definition screen on the Note means there is usually no need for panning and zooming whilst Web browsing. I normally see a whole Web page in portrait view and if the text is too small to read or select with a finger then landscape view plus the S-Pen usually works. I am using the Dolphin browser where you can easily select Desktop and full page viewing. Of course a large Tablet is better, but no use for carrying around as a phone.
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It's much easier to browse web sites on the Note. I can see much more of the site in the screen and find little if any need to go look on a computer instead.
After testing all the browsers the boat browser mini is speeediest by far... Haveused it for months... Try others... Always come back.
I was viewing some virtual tours on my PC, example here:
http://vtour.realtour.biz/102GoldenBear/Austin/TX
This will not play on my N7 on Chrome. It also will not play on Xscope (with flash enabled). I tried various settings. Then I tried Boat Browser and thought it wouldn't play until I set UI to "iphone"... then it plays. A little slow/choppy, but at least it plays. What's with "iphone"?
Anyone other browser work (smoothly?). I use to have Firefox on my phone, I'm guessing it will work on it, but it was so much slower at loading pages than Xscope. I'm playing with Boat, they have improved page display, going to try some speed tests to see if I want to keep it.
edit: Boat and Xscope seem to load pages almost the same (fast). I decided Xscope does a little better job displaying pages properly. I visit FB quit a lot and Boat just doesn't display FB home properly. I see why I switched from Boat to FF then to Xscope.
Give Naked Browser a try. Both Boat and Naked play Flash content on my N7.
Just tried it, doesn't work with Naked. I use Xscope as my main browser and does flash well (on everything except the type of link I mentioned). Boat/iphone setting is the only one I found that works.
Xscope seems just as fast as naked. I don't like how the top bar covers up the top of a page, Xscope seems to auto-hide the bar much better. Also has a few more text size options.
Not a big deal, I prefer a PC for most things like that.
I just got a Nexus 10 and I'm considering returning it because of all the crashes. (At least twice a day since I got it.) But I'm even having trouble finding a good browser. Does anyone else find they have these problems, or is it just me? Opera was my favorite browser on A100, but its unusable now.
In chrome mobile if you click anywhere near the X button (on a tab), the page will close. Chrome also causes tablet crashes. (Chrome is the stock browser on my tab.)
Boat takes up high battery
Dolphin - clicking on a tab closes the tab
Opera buttons/menus are so tiny it can't be used.
Firefox (regular And beta) - parts of or the whole screen goes black sometimes. (Resizing the page fixes it.) Requires effort to scroll fast. Some images don't ever load, like on Google images (middle of page). No speed dial or even a way to organize bookmarks. Previous session tabs don't reload automatically.
Maxthon - maxthon tablet - sometimes no links work, tab fonts too large
I'm using Firefox mostly, but don't like it for above reasons.
Not a browser but, my favorite keyboard on my a100, Thumb keyboard - if i click near the top edge of the comma key, I get an apostrophe. (Rt. Side) also, it becomes erratic sometimes, like cursor jumping to the wrong places.
Do you have these issues, or did I get a bad Nexus? Thanks.
I still would like to hear if anyone is having these troubles on the Nexus 10, but I think I found happiness with Ocean Browser. I'm already familiar with it because it came pre-installed on my Acer A100, but I don't think they ever gave the name. It was re-branded or something. Glad I found it again. About the only thing it's lacking is the ability to rearrange bookmarks on the screen. But you can use folders. I think I found the winner.
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