So hopper isn't that interesting for the iPAD (one way only). Good to know. I'm surprised as they certainly talk about iOS. Did you try www.gethopper.com in safari with a hopper account? Judging solely on my 1 message might not do it service.
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:58 AM, greg heil <ghei...@gmail.com> wrote: > Eric > > my complaint about Gethopper is that for Flash disabled devices (such > as iOS ones) it is a WRITE ONLY service. One CANNOT even get the URL a > PASTE is written to w/o the Flash interface. > > Going a datum one way (From a Flash device) to a non flash device is > fine. The other way runs into the lack of interface difficulty. > > Eg knowing what the link is that is created on an iOS device is > impossible w/o allowing Flash. So it cannot be read even on a Flash > enabled desktop, because no URL can be created. > > Presumably the URL shown in your email was created on a non-iOS device. > > What i am hoping for is that URL may be reconstructable even w/o the > Flash interface... > > greg > ~krsnadas.org > > -- > > from: Eric Iverson eric.b.iver...@gmail.com > to: Beta forum <beta@jsoftware.com> > date: 20 June 2012 06:33 > subject: Re: [Jbeta] transfer with hopper bookmark > > I am not following your comments. My use of hopper has been simple and > it works for me. I'm not sure it is a useful thing at all and present > it more as a curiousity. If you find it useful, great. If not, don't > use it. > > In my example, hopper offers nothing over just including the file as > an attachment in the email. I'm not sure if there are use cases where > hopper provides interesting value. > > From my iPad, reading that email, and clicking the link worked fine, > and there was nothing about flash. > > -- > > from: greg heil ghei...@gmail.com > to: Beta forum <beta@jsoftware.com> > date: 19 June 2012 15:28 > subject: Re: [Jbeta] transfer with hopper bookmark > > Eric > > my interaction with the site says it is a Flash one. For me, w/o > Flash, it is write only. More famously Apple mobile eschews Flash. Has > any one succeeded with an Apple mobile? > > i was able to reverse engineer a page but have not been able to do > anything with the "PublicURL" ... Its hash is about 6 characters > longer than the (successful) one you got. > > So my question is how can i get to a workable hash from the reverse > engineered one? Or maybe their Flash software goes through a submital > process with .tl? In which case i would be locked out until they did > an SVG implementation. > > greg > ~krsnadas.org > > -- > > from: Eric Iverson eric.b.iver...@gmail.com > to: Beta forum <beta@jsoftware.com> > date: 19 June 2012 14:37 > subject: [Jbeta] transfer with hopper bookmark > > I took the following steps: > used jt to package up ~addons/math misc folder > dragged jattach.html and dropped it on my hopper web page > got the hopper URL to the file in clipboard > pasted the link here > > http://hop.tl/H70cbqe2g9nKV7_UQs > > In theory, you you can read this message on your iPad, tap the link, > and continue the process to get ~addons/math misc folder installed. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
