As iPhoneAtlas.com
reports, Apple is updating the Safari Web browser that comes with the Apple iPhone.
According to their sources, the iPhone OS 2.2 (currently only available to registered developers) will see MobileSafari get a makeover to make it look more like the desktop version of Safari. A search bar is flushed out beside the Web address bar, and the refresh button is placed inside the URL spot.
According to Wired, Apple is also adding features now that bugs have been fixed. Wired makes a very interesting theory, and that is Copy & Paste (which every iPhone user would kill for) will never be added to the iPhone. A least not the Copy & Paste we're used to. In their words:
The iPhone model is quite different from that of a proper computer. In a Mac or PC, you use the operating system to act on files, be they pictures, emails or text documents. The iPhone works more like iTunes, where each application takes care of its own files and what you can do with them. Thus, in Safari, you can choose to send a picture to the Photo application, whence it is squirreled away into a filesystem only accessible through the same Photo application, or through a "media browser" (which is used to pick the desktop background, for example).
Wired suggests Apple is taking so long to implement this basic feature because they are reinventing it. It's a theory that makes sense, in my opinion. As they report:
Imagine a system-wide menu added to all applications which, instead of shuffling items off to a clipboard, lists all the places you can send that file (or text string). This would be like the existing "Open with" option available in the Mac's right-click menu -- each application effectively reports to the OS exactly what kind of files it can handle and the OS remembers this. Thus a picture could be sent to not only the Photo app, but to any other photo program. Text could be sent directly to any open dialog box in, say, Safari.
Whether Apple reinvents or not, here's hoping the feature comes soon.
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