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ok, one part of the osk keyboard issue is fixed, but it still closes on enter, and ignores existing content of input area...

update reports missing packages libxslt1.1 will apt-get it, just to inform you

OKI finally got a chance to play around with tear and overall awesome. The issues I am having are pretty funny. I am typping this with the finger keyboard and it is treating it like a password field (shows the letter for a moment and then changes to *). i tried going back to the smaller osk and the space key does not work. pressing the center button also did not bring up the finger keyboard. and of corse as tso mentioned, it does not see previously entered text.

Ok. now i am back in microb so i can add some more things.

1. one of my biggest issues with your implementation of kinetic scrolling is that when i am trying to tap a link it sends me scrolling in some direction.
2. when i finally do tap a link it doesn't do anything to let me know that it has registered the tap and is loading the page. sometimes i have given up on it and start reading something else and then it starts loading the page finally. a possible solution for this would be to have the loading bar on the bottom change color slightly, when the browser recognizes the tap and is loading a link.
3. i loaded my .css file that i use with microb and it didn't seem to do anything. it may have done some things, but one thing it definitly didn't do is remove the scrollbars. this is really nice to be able to do when using finger scrolling.

hope this helps. i plan on playing with tear some more. keep up the good work.

Um, yes, I forgot that I switched on xslt...

i just noticed that the bar is not even shown until one tap a link, but its hard to notice.

what i would do would be to change the reload into a stop the moment a link have been tapped, rather then only when the page starts to load.

if thats at all possible...

i like this idea.

another thing i was thinking about that would be really useful (but maybe really hard to do), if the bar at the bottom could be made mostly transparent unless the focus is there. this is something that would increase the area of the page that the user can see much like removing scrollbars. it might be useful to do this to the scrollbars as well, but when finger scrolling is working like i want it to i have no need for the scrollbars.

i find scrollbars to be useful when pages are overloaded with links or other hotspots...

Any chance of having a "fit width to view" feature? I realize that lots of people hate this, but for those of us who read lots of news articles, it's nice to be able to increase size of font without having to deal with constant horizontal scrolling.

hmm, i could have sworn it already does that by default...