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tomsem · 10-22-2015, 11:38 PM

Queue (Safari Books Online) now supports Slide Out/Split screen.

Feedly and Chrome do as well.

Speaking of browsers, these do enable reading with read.amazon.com and play.google.com/books. It's not without compromises but opens up possibilities for side-by-side use cases. Ironically I cannot get play.google.books to work with Chrome, And many web sites (including play.google.com/books) respond to the narrower viewport by shrinking and making text too small to read (instead of switching to 'mobile friendly'). read.amazon.com wants 2/3 of the landscape screen width, and if it does not get that, it just truncates, making it worthless.

Overall this Split View thing seems a little half-baked. In Portrait, it seems it would be more useful to stack the views rather than splitting vertically as in Landscape. And app developers (and to some extent web designers) need to consider how they can make their apps more usable in this context. It's more than just throwing a couple of build switches.

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tomsem Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,959 Karma: 27060153 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: USA Device: iPhone 15PM, Kindle Scribe, iPad mini 6, PocketBook InkPad Color 3	Queue (Safari Books Online) now supports Slide Out/Split screen. Feedly and Chrome do as well. Speaking of browsers, these do enable reading with read.amazon.com and play.google.com/books. It's not without compromises but opens up possibilities for side-by-side use cases. Ironically I cannot get play.google.books to work with Chrome, And many web sites (including play.google.com/books) respond to the narrower viewport by shrinking and making text too small to read (instead of switching to 'mobile friendly'). read.amazon.com wants 2/3 of the landscape screen width, and if it does not get that, it just truncates, making it worthless. Overall this Split View thing seems a little half-baked. In Portrait, it seems it would be more useful to stack the views rather than splitting vertically as in Landscape. And app developers (and to some extent web designers) need to consider how they can make their apps more usable in this context. It's more than just throwing a couple of build switches. Last edited by tomsem; 10-22-2015 at 11:42 PM.