Zing Touch: ILX now ON IPHONE (and ipod tooches too)

Ha, wrong thread!

cad: do you mean on the site proper? It's because we're on both www.ilxor.com and ilxor.com and the code treats those as two different sites (mostly for historical reasons that sometimes prove handy).

If you're logged in on eg ilxor.com and someone makes a link to www.ilxor.com, when you click it you'll get the logged out view. And vice versa.

It's like that one Monty Python sketch where sometimes they are on film and then they go through a door and are on tape.

stet i love zing.

stet that must be it, thanks!

i use the italic button on zing all the time. Pls keep it!

While Search would be nice, it would be almost as good to be able to view all my bookmarked threads. (Same as clicking the Bookmarks link at the top or bottom of the web view).

Would pay for zing again, def.

deleting.

while I'm here, does anyone use the bold/italic/quote/code/etc buttons in Zing's post composer? I'm doing the iOS 7-ication now, and it'll be a pain to do all those again if I don't have to

I use them all the time.

Also I would gladly pay for the app again. I probably use it more than any other except email and maybe Threes.

> If you're logged in on eg ilxor.com and someone makes a link to www.ilxor.com, when you click it you'll get the logged out view. And vice versa.

could be solved if the links were coded relative rather than abosolute (ie leave off the hostname)

Yes, would repay.

Me too. Third most-used app behind email and Facebook for me...

word

me too

^

yeah of course

Would repay too.

Also, stet if you need some volunteer subcontracting work on zing (been Obj-C guy forever) let me know.

Thanks! One thing I could definitely do with the time to investigate is a fast way to get an NSAttributedString out of our limited subset of HTML. (There's a attributedStringWithHTML call, but it appears to spin up webkit in the background and takes forever. This needs to be incredibly quick as it'll be called for every message displayed). I can do it easily on Mac by applying Bold and Italic traits, but that's not supported on iOS. I've filed a radar and my plan's to wait for them to support that, as otherwise I can't see how to do it in any reasonable sort of time.

(I was also thinking I could store the NSAttributedStrings in the DB here and fire them straight at the client, but there doesn't seem to be a good serialisation of NSAttributedString that doesn't take a lot of work to deserialise anyway)

How are Zing Touch and Zing Lite differentiated?

Zing Lite is free, and I haven't updated since day dot, which means it works on the OG iPhone, but has fewfeatures. It has ads.

Zing Touch is pay-for, but has lots of features, including:

• it runs in the background/supports multitasking,
• it has a better composer
• it lets you customise the homescreen
• it has iPhone 5/5s support for the larger screens
• supports polls
• landscape support for composer
• has a dark mode and a serif font theme.
• It's betterer

Zing Touch (tm) will also:

• fix your parking tickets in certain jurisdictions
• get you a 10% discount when you buy rounds
• rate your excuses for being late to work on a 1-10 scale of believability
• find lost socks

Losing socks would be a better feature.

Also Zing Touch has a red trucker hat.

Zing Touch is well worth the $.

if you follow the zing touch money trail, it will take you to the front steps of the Brentwood Johnny Garlic's

Board listing doesn't load on Zing Lite.

Anyone else getting my problem?

Yeah this is a new thing tho. Only about two days old AFAIK.

fixed now; a stray "&" in the ILE board description.

Thanks. Is there a public API?

There is for reading - http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/BoardsXmlControllerServlet?stylesheet=mobile.xsl with no stylesheet gives you XML, same with the threads. Posting is a total mare, so if you want to do that let me know!

+1 for paying again. I for one would welcome our new iOS 7 Zing Touch overlords.

How's it coming, stet?

It is pretty much ready to go, but I have a new rule in from Apple which means I now need to add flag post, block user and flag user functions.

Apple brings back SB. Do they know what they're doing?

will the old version of zing still be supported for those of us not on ios7?

Yes, I'm not going to touch that.

It is pretty much ready to go, but I have a new rule in from Apple which means I now need to add flag post, block user and flag user functions.

Apple brings back SB. Do they know what they're doing?

― stet, Friday, 5 September 2014 13:48 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Deems Jobs.

What's SB?

Superbad

What? No, really

sonic boom

Sam Bradford. Apple wants him healthy again.

small detail but in ios8 the text on the new answers is lost its margin and is less readable
http://i.imgur.com/fVvUxJe.png

i have the paid vers fyi

which I heartily recommend to everyone, it's much better fyi

while we're talking imho itd be better to display full thread tiltes on multiple lines than abbreviate... often it's impossible to tell what the thread is even about

^^^seconding that, thread titles being cut off is much too cramped

tbh I don't think I ever use Zing for anything other than checking boomkarks bcz of this

Thread titles have always looked like that to me on the last two ios versions

I'd love it if I could zoom in or out on images instead of having them locked at a particular size.

huh weird pretty sure it had a margin for me but I have no reference xp

I am on ios7 and I am seeing this

http://i.imgur.com/wbznfBp.jpg

there it is

Nm I was high that margin exists on my prior ios phone

Sometimes I remember to turn zing to landscape mode to see full thread titles; most of the time I just go without knowing