{"id":4232,"date":"2012-02-01T20:11:26","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T01:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=4232"},"modified":"2012-02-01T20:11:28","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T01:11:28","slug":"a-plea-for-better-ios-text-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/01\/a-plea-for-better-ios-text-facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"A Plea for Better iOS Text Facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/log.scifihifi.com\/post\/16834335332\/a-plea-for-better-ios-text-facilities\">Buzz Andersen<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/log.scifihifi.com\/post\/16834335332\/a-plea-for-better-ios-text-facilities\"><p>What we really need is a facility that provides access to at least some subset of WebKit HTML rendering capabilities at a level between CoreText and UIWebView&#8212;something that doesn&#8217;t require developers to essentially re-invent HTML and CSS but allows them to render at least some level of HTML formatted text to a native view or layer without the overhead and inflexibility of UIWebView&#8212;basically, a next generation version of Mac OS X Cocoa&#8217;s NSAttributedString.  I&#8217;m sure providing such a facility in the limited environment of the iOS presents significant engineering challenges, but <a href=\"http:\/\/haseman.tumblr.com\/post\/16835688188\/sci-fi-hi-fi-a-plea-for-better-ios-text-facilities\">Android has such an API<\/a>, and I think the absence of such an API on iOS is holding the platform back as a media platform more than almost anything else I can think of.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shapeof.com\/archives\/2012\/02\/buzz_andersen:_a_plea_for_better_ios_text_facilities.html\">Gus Mueller<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/shapeof.com\/archives\/2012\/02\/buzz_andersen:_a_plea_for_better_ios_text_facilities.html\"><p>I used to think that rich text editing of some sort on iOS was just around the corner. I&rsquo;ve even had folks at Apple tell me &rdquo;just wait,&rdquo; as if it was almost here. That was years ago. At this point, I almost think it&rsquo;s on purpose that we don&rsquo;t have any sort of rich text editing. I just can&rsquo;t figure out why.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&rsquo;s strange since NSTextView has been such a massive success on Mac OS X.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buzz Andersen: What we really need is a facility that provides access to at least some subset of WebKit HTML rendering capabilities at a level between CoreText and UIWebView&#8212;something that doesn&#8217;t require developers to essentially re-invent HTML and CSS but allows them to render at least some level of HTML formatted text to a native [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4233,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4232\/revisions\/4233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}