On 6 Aug 2010, at 18:43, Jesse Vincent wrote:

>> 2)  In my opinion (and others in the office thought so too), there's a lot 
>> of wasted screen real-estate; some of the fonts are too large, and there is 
>> a lot of padding around stuff which spaces everything out too much and 
>> reduces the amount I can see on screen.  For example, the main home page has 
>> so much padding around each item that it doesn't all fit on my iPhone's 
>> screen.  The same goes for the pretty rounded corner eye candy too; it tends 
>> to force you to use even more padding around text to make it look decent.
> 
> Try out 0.92. I've tightened it up _some_ but tightening up the homepage too 
> much will make the targets completely unclickable for folks with smaller 
> screens.
> 
> I'm not opposed to killing the corner rounding off entirely.  I'd certainly 
> love patches to make the mobile UI more usable.  Because we're trying to hit 
> things that aren't just Mobile WebKit and have...wildly different resolutions 
> and physical sizes, I need to be careful about changes, but I know we could 
> do a FAR better job than we're doing now. 

Sure, that was my point entirely - it feels at the moment as though it's 
designed for a *larger* screen than the iPhone, so we're broadly in agreement; 
it needs to work sensibly even when the screen is *really* tiny.  This is 
indeed quite a challenge!

Regards,

Tim

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