Comments on: Zenbe Lists for iPod Touch and iPhone http://tiltedsymmetry.com/2008/07/reviews/zenbe-lists-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone/ The creative playground of Joey Livingston. Music, art, photography, prose, nonsense. Wed, 20 Oct 2010 22:06:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Tilted Symmetry | Landscape Mode on the iPhone Wordpress App http://tiltedsymmetry.com/2008/07/reviews/zenbe-lists-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone/comment-page-1/#comment-192 Tilted Symmetry | Landscape Mode on the iPhone Wordpress App Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:19:25 +0000 http://tiltedsymmetry.com/?p=160#comment-192 <p>[...] This article appears to clearly indicate that Automattic, the development team behind the iPhone Wordpress App, will be implementing a landscape mode in the next version, meaning that you will be able to use the wider keyboard that is currently only available in Safari and Zenbe Lists. [...]</p> [...] This article appears to clearly indicate that Automattic, the development team behind the iPhone WordPress App, will be implementing a landscape mode in the next version, meaning that you will be able to use the wider keyboard that is currently only available in Safari and Zenbe Lists. [...]

]]> By: Robert Kieffer http://tiltedsymmetry.com/2008/07/reviews/zenbe-lists-for-ipod-touch-and-iphone/comment-page-1/#comment-135 Robert Kieffer Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:36:39 +0000 http://tiltedsymmetry.com/?p=160#comment-135 <p>'Glad you like the landscape mode. I have to confess it was a bit of an afterthought. The only reason Zenbe Lists supports it is that we had grand designs for having an orientation change trigger a coverflow-like view of lists. This would have required users to flip the phone around, so it seemed like a good idea to make sure landscape mode worked for all the views. Of course, we later discovered we didn't have time to get coverflow working, but the landscape support remained in.</p> <p>Support for orientation changes isn't that hard to get working as long as you design for it up front. But few developers consider it to be an essential feature, and the Apple SDK generates non-orientation aware code by default, so support for it is usually put off until "later" I imagine. But by the time "later" comes along, developers find they've inavdvertantly commited themselves to a single-orientationn UI.</p> <p>Anyhow, thought you might find the background for this particular feature amusing. :)</p> ‘Glad you like the landscape mode. I have to confess it was a bit of an afterthought. The only reason Zenbe Lists supports it is that we had grand designs for having an orientation change trigger a coverflow-like view of lists. This would have required users to flip the phone around, so it seemed like a good idea to make sure landscape mode worked for all the views. Of course, we later discovered we didn’t have time to get coverflow working, but the landscape support remained in.

Support for orientation changes isn’t that hard to get working as long as you design for it up front. But few developers consider it to be an essential feature, and the Apple SDK generates non-orientation aware code by default, so support for it is usually put off until “later” I imagine. But by the time “later” comes along, developers find they’ve inavdvertantly commited themselves to a single-orientationn UI.

Anyhow, thought you might find the background for this particular feature amusing. :)

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