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 Discover RT's hidden secrets with RT Essentials from O'Reilly Media. Buy a copy at http://rtbook.bestpractical.com
