copying text from web pages
 

I often want to grab something from a webpage - something I want to make a note about, or say copy an rss feed URL to feed to podsync.

Is there any way to do this? There's select all, but that's not much use.

Zebee

Re: copying text from web pages
 

I'm not sure how widely this applies, but in OS2008 you can kind of double-tap and drag to select. Then bring up the menu (or press&hold) and pick 'copy'.

Re: copying text from web pages
 

Double tap does select a word, and if I hold the stylus I get a dialogue box with copy and help, select help, it says I should be able to drag to select... but I can't.

Ah! It's all in the timing. The trick is to tap then tap-drag, rather than tap tap wait till it highlights.

Thanks!

Zebee
- who is going to have to read all the help available....

Re: copying text from web pages
 

[QUOTE=Zebee;101876]Double tap does select a word, and if I hold the stylus I get a dialogue box with copy and help, select help, it says I should be able to drag to select... but I can't.

Ah! It's all in the timing. The trick is to tap then tap-drag, rather than tap tap wait till it highlights.

Thanks!

Wow I just found this:D This is really a big help because I often like to save as notes info that I find on the internet. Glad that somebody posted here!

Re: copying text from web pages
 

I feeeeelll a future video tutorial coming up!!!

Maybe?

Highlighting and copying web page text seemed such an intuitive thing in other OS's that I found it very frustrating not being able to do this so casually on the N800.

Re: copying text from web pages
 

What's even worse is when you do it by accident the first time, then can't repeat it when you try later.

Re: copying text from web pages
 

For a good time, ask the iPhone users how intuitive copy & paste is on their system... :D

/just sayin' ;)

-John

Re: copying text from web pages
 

I think it might be easier if some alternate system was used. For example, tap-tap marks the beginning of an area, and tap-tap marks the end. Then a menu lets you select cut or copy.

The problem with tap-tap drag is that it only works about 50% of the time for me.

Re: copying text from web pages
 

I think I hear my wife grumbling, something about how her iPhoney ate her long email message; save, what's that? ;)

Thanks for bringing this topic up! This has been a big headache for me and now I can finally select snippets of text! Yeah!

The odd quirk I'm noticing is that I have to tap-tap (in the same exact spot), then very quickly start to drag. Otherwise I get a screen pan (large newspaper's w i d e format website). When I have a screen pan with the stylus, I have to tap-tap-tap, then a quick drag to get it to work. Sometimes 2 taps, other times three taps. Far from an ideal UI, but much better experience than my wife has with her "pretty" (lipstick on a pig) UI interface. :D

Re: copying text from web pages
 

Here's another nuance to marking text in web pages:

Tap-tap-drag seems to fairly consistently mark complete words.

But, if you do it just right, tap-tdrag (i.e. second tap hits the screen and with no pause, starts moving) will mark text by the character.