On Jan 27, 2010, at 9:09 PM, James Owen wrote:

> 
> On Thursday, January 28, 2010, at 04:48AM, "Adam R. Maxwell" 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> My guess is that the iPad would basically require a new application; BibDesk 
>> is heavily oriented and optimized for usage on a laptop or desktop system.  
>> That would require significant effort, not to mention a developer with an 
>> iPad :).
> 
> Well, no, as Apple will have an iPad simulator for developers, just like they 
> have for the iPhone.

My understanding is that this isn't a good substitute for testing on the 
hardware; certainly from the performance standpoint, but also for the user 
experience (gestures and so forth).

> BTW, if BibDesk had its own PDF viewer, would it be possible to make use of 
> the hyperlinks for citations which are present in many PDFs?  If one of these 
> links is clicked, I think it opens a journal webpage, but could it be made to 
> search for that hyperlink within the BibDesk library first, and then open a 
> local file first?

Not unless you made BibDesk the default handler for that URL type (e.g., http), 
and you probably don't want to do that.  Interesting idea, though; I could see 
it working fairly well with DOIs.



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