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To: Yaelle

How is posting on a phone difficult (or rather, what could we do better?) Only problem I have is HTML posting due to having no angle brackets on this blasted thing.

* Posted from my Android.


169 posted on 12/19/2016 1:01:08 PM PST by John Robinson (I am a twit @_John_Robinson)
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To: John Robinson

“How is posting on a phone difficult...”

It’s not, at least it isn’t difficult for me. I have an older laptop, but all I use it for is the DVD player. It’s been 4 years since I bailed on having a landline or satellite connection, so I pretty much do everything from my iPhone. The ONLY complaint I have is the increasing amount of video posts eating up data and slowing the speed down.


181 posted on 12/19/2016 1:42:22 PM PST by Carthego delenda est
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To: John Robinson
* Posted from my Android.

Dang! That thing might blow up!

Quick toss it into the toilet, save us all!

182 posted on 12/19/2016 1:55:36 PM PST by humblegunner
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To: John Robinson

I have angle brackets on my iPhone but typing out HTML would be tedious and I have little female fingers and still mistype constantly.

The worst problem on an iPhone is that in most browsers you can’t get the entire text into the box to see it, so you have to scroll left and right as well as up and down. And that is just to READ. Then I found two browsers where you don’t have to do that, Atomic Web and Opera Mini, but still the font is small and when you try to post in Opera, and I think in the others too, you CANNOT SEE THE POSTING Box so you are typing blind.

And on the stupid iPhone (nothing FR can do about that) the return key is in part of the old space bar so I am constantly hitting it and not knowing, so my post
Comes out like
A haiku
As if
I wanted it to
Look like this.

What am I, Wardaddy? Lol. ;)

I don’t know whether a full app is needed or if there is some trick to get FR easy to use on a phone. I do all my home freeping on an iPad where everything is absolutely awesome. Thank goodness. But when out, I’d love the same ease. Thanks for listening, John. Merry Christmas!


192 posted on 12/19/2016 2:54:50 PM PST by Yaelle
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