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Copy-and-paste: Now More Than Ever
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nonlolcats 
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Posted 22 July 2008 - 11:47 AM
what's most frustrating about this is that the iphone already has the perfect UI for copying and pasting... the same UI you'd use to rearrange icons on the homescreen.
imagine this for the copy and paste function: you hold your finger on a word or chunk of text, it activates "copy" mode, you select the endpoint for your text, the text in question wobbles around like the homescreen icons do, and you just drag it to the appropriate spot you want to paste it. either that, or selecting the endpoint made a menu pop up from the bottom of the screen that would let you select "paste within this document" or "paste in another application." then you'd just select the paste point with the cursor.
hard to imagine that copy/pasting is still just an oversight on apple's part. they are probably wondering about ways to implement the feature and stay true to the whole "iphone simplicity" look and feel.
imagine this for the copy and paste function: you hold your finger on a word or chunk of text, it activates "copy" mode, you select the endpoint for your text, the text in question wobbles around like the homescreen icons do, and you just drag it to the appropriate spot you want to paste it. either that, or selecting the endpoint made a menu pop up from the bottom of the screen that would let you select "paste within this document" or "paste in another application." then you'd just select the paste point with the cursor.
hard to imagine that copy/pasting is still just an oversight on apple's part. they are probably wondering about ways to implement the feature and stay true to the whole "iphone simplicity" look and feel.
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