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What's the want for graffiti anyway?

All of the Palm products pre-Pre have used resistive touch screens.

re: "like moving from a pen and paper to finger-painting"
Yes - i agree and that's a nice analogy.
for some things finger-painting is fine (I always have done that on all my Palm devices over the last 10+ years) - but for *writing* it's not great.

re: no. it's 2009. move on and stop clinging to the past
in 1999 I didn't want to type on a "daft little keyboard" - and i still don't want to.
I don't mind if you do... but I (still) think it's inefficient and clumsy and Graffiti with a stylus is better (for me) :-)
So losing it is a step backwards to Psion's and stuff pre-palmos/graffiti.

re: What's the want for graffiti anyway?
I already said...:
"Have posted in the forum here (do people here still use the forums? - looks kinda deserted these days) too with some context:
ref: http://www.palminfocenter.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=34898"

wasn't that clear ?????

Thanks for the comments - especially the helpful ones :-)

Cheers, Steve.

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Steve Adams
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I use copy and paste on my tiny-screened Centro with my fingers all the goddamn time and it's a piece of cake. Not only does Pre have a bigger, finger-friendly capacitive touchscreen, but it's flush as well which will let your fingers go right past the edge of the screen. Which means it will be an even bigger piece of cake on Pre.

Giggle. Chortle. Tee-hee. Snicker. Snort. Guffaw. etc

I frequently don't have a clue what you're talking about, SV, because you post nebulous wink-wink-nudge-nudge rubbish with nothing to back it up.

But rather than make me stream a half-hour video in order to hear two comments, why not just cut out the middleman and quote directly? You sure make it sound like you've found a smoking gun! :)

P.S. It's a bit rich telling me I don't understand the difference between a Centro and a Pre, when you have never owned a Palm device yourself. (Or even used one recently, from what I can tell.) Why are you so interested in Palm, again...?

(And how does copy-and-paste create a security hole on the iPhone? STILL waiting on that one, SV.)

Perhaps you should just put up or shut up? But that would be too much to ask, wouldn't it.

That's why I'm asking you simple, direct questions, SV, so you can edumacate me.

You don't seem to have any answers.

Funny that!

The demo part of the presentation consisted of editting some files and hitting refresh in a HTML-"browser" window to show the effects of the edits.

No "whens" mentioned and they didn't even overtly acknowledge the questions that had "whens" in them - such as "When is flash coming?". The "chat" window had lots of "when" questions...

http://discussion.treocentral.com/1562638-post112.html

It's gonna be awhile.

Unfortunately, I can't find it but I could swear I actually read a comment by a Palm employee about server-side/client-side differences wherein it was essentially acknowledged that client-side code was...open. Sorry I can't be more specific so take this paragraph with a pound of salt.

[the code on the page you're looking at RIGHT now is open - right click, "View Source" or whatever your browser says for the same functionality; might not be QUITE that easy under WebOS but it will amount to the same thing]

Let's say "fully revealed, visible, copyable" instead of "open", okay?

In other developments, it apparently isn't possible to give away an iPhone in Japan.

Last summer when I was in the USA and met people who had lost their jobs, gone bankrupt, lost their house, and still were all excited to show me their cool iPhones with "unlimited" plans. Sometimes I just don't understand Americans.

"twrock is infamous around these parts" (from my profile over at Brighthand due to my negative 62 rep points rating)