A Plea for Better iOS Text Facilities
buzz:
Some (e.g. Facebook and Instagram) have dealt with this problem by abandoning fully native apps and instead building hybrid apps that rely on UIWebView for all but the simplest content presentation. Other, less ambitious companies have dealt with it by essentially distributing 200 MB PDFs disguised as general purpose software. The really crazy ones, like Joe Hewitt with his Three20 framework, have essentially reimplemented their own rich text rendering frameworks, complete with CSS-like style functionality, but while I’ve certainly never been one to shy away from a megalomaniacal engineering challenge, I’m pretty sure that way lies madness for anyone without Apple-level engineering resources (it’s telling that three20 was created by Facebook and even they are now relying on UIWebView).
Second. Unfortunately the crazy, CSS and ePub forking iBooks Author files don’t inspire hope.
Source: buzz
95 notesShowHide
-
ionelapitigoi22 reblogged this from buzz
-
vimeo-download-video reblogged this from buzz
-
best-diet-solutions reblogged this from buzz
-
gorgeous-prom-dresses-2012 reblogged this from buzz
-
fernseher-neuheiten-2012 reblogged this from buzz
-
mutuelles--mutuelle reblogged this from buzz
-
analogkid liked this
-
piyushnp liked this
-
omnivector said:
The worst part, yet, is most everyone needs it and most everyone implements in their own subtly different way with their own subtly different bugs. It’s quite frustrating since it’s obvious with CoreText this ability could be system wide.
-
omnivector liked this
-
kenyatta liked this
-
farcaller liked this
-
anil liked this
-
jemerick liked this
-
ishnoob liked this
-
robspychala liked this
-
aulia-m liked this
-
jessearmand reblogged this from buzz
-
bustr liked this
-
nikf liked this
-
pblair said:
The intermediate that I’ve found is CATextLayer. It lets you use NSAttributedStrings somewhat, and is MUCH friendlier than CoreText. If you haven’t played with CATextLayer much, it’s worth looking at.
-
cbowns liked this
-
dwineman liked this
-
morepeoplelikeus liked this
-
quanganhdo liked this
-
aurum reblogged this from buzz
-
cbarrett liked this
-
tooepic liked this
-
dannyliberty liked this
-
hunterpryor reblogged this from haseman and added:
Complicated and poorly documented is the nicest way I could put that. I had to jump through a few hoops to get my HTML...
-
buzz posted this
