iPad

[marimbadog]

Let me be the first to ask (at least I think I'm the first). BBEdit
for the iPad? Would make my life as a web master easier....

[Lewis@Gmail]

On 27-Jan-2010, at 11:55, marimbadog wrote:
>
> Let me be the first to ask (at least I think I'm the first). BBEdit
> for the iPad? Would make my life as a web master easier....

Hasn't the iWork team been working the last TWO YEARS on the new iWork for the iPad?

I think porting over BBEdit (or BBEdit Lite) to the iPad is a great idea. However, I've not seen the SDK and I haven't even seen the iPad. How feasible is it?

I dunno. It would be cool. It would be really cool.

I was kinda hoping Rich would be getting involved in the 'suicide project' myself, but it's a week in, 2000 emails, and no sign of him as yet. Either he's hiding on the devel list or he really has no interest.

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[Kendall Conrad]

That was one of my first thoughts after the event. I was really hoping
the iPad's OS was going to be capable of running Mac apps natively,
but got disappointed. Well, that and no USB port. Being able to use a
program like BBEdit on the iPad would very much increase the
likeliness of me getting one as I would haul it and the nifty keyboard
dock to work with me where I'm forced to use Windows all day and miss
having an awesome text editor like BBEdit.

[David Kelly]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 07:16:11AM -0700, Lewis@Gmail wrote:
> On 27-Jan-2010, at 11:55, marimbadog wrote:
> >
> > Let me be the first to ask (at least I think I'm the first). BBEdit
> > for the iPad? Would make my life as a web master easier....
>
> Hasn't the iWork team been working the last TWO YEARS on the new iWork
> for the iPad?

Probably. But let me tell you a bit more than I really know. There isn't
really anything like the iPad. Yes, all the parts exist but haven't been
combined quite this way or targeted at quite this opportunity. So the
designers don't really know what all it is that an iPad needs. That is
where application development comes to play. There is nothing quite like
building applications for a device to find its flaws. The poor iWork
team was probably having to retarget for a new iPad every month during
most of those 2 years.

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[Mark Fitzgerald]

Count me in too. BBEdit would probably be the tipping point for me to
consider buying an iPad.

[Ted Burger]

I have 'FTP On The Go' on my Touch. Basically an FTP client with a
text editor.
Nothing like BBEdit, but I have used it in a pinch.

I think this is an existence proof that it could be done really well
on the iPad by the BareBones folks.

Ted

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[Robert Occhialini]

I think a well done text editor would be an essential “work in a pinch” app to have on a device like this.

I doubt that app would need to be as full featured as BBEdit, but someone has to fill that void on the iPad.  I wonder who might do a good job of it?  ;-)

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[James Taylor]

Me, too.

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[Alex Satrapa]

On Jan 27, 12:55 pm, marimbadog <marimba...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Let me be the first to ask (at least I think I'm the first). BBEdit

> for the iPad? Would make my life as a web master easier….

BBEdit and a decent SSH shell are my "perfect" iPad applications to add to what we saw at the demo.

Alex

[Doug McNutt]

At 12:46 +1100 1/29/10, Alex Satrapa wrote:
>BBEdit and a decent SSH shell are my "perfect" iPad applications to add to what we saw at the demo.

<http://www.zinger-soft.com/iSSH_features.html>

The X11 feature is labelled "coming soon". I wonder. There is some new Apple-proprietary chip in the thing. I wonder if there will be a gcc compiler front end for it.

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[Lewis@Gmail]

On 28-Jan-2010, at 08:49, Robert Occhialini wrote:
>
> I doubt that app would need to be as full featured as BBEdit,

Nope, it really doesn't. It doesn't need the pro-level editing stuff, it doesn't need projects, shell worksheets, disk browser, or text-factories. It probably doesn't need multi-file though that could be nice. It needs ftp, regex, and most the things in the Text menu.

It would make fixing stuff on-the-run much more pleasant than trying to do stuff on the iPhone in a terminal.

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[genevish]

TextWrangler for the iPad would do, and I'd pay for it. I do't need
all the features of BBEdit, just a text editor with PHP syntax
coloring and FTP open would do.

-Scott

[David Schutz]

that would be SO awesome. if it was also easy to get files on and off
the iPad to work in this app i wouldn't hesitate to buy it.

[BeeRich]

On Jan 27, 1:55 pm, marimbadog <marimba...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Let me be the first to ask (at least I think I'm the first). BBEdit
> for the iPad? Would make my life as a web master easier....

The iPhone OS is a strange beast. The unit won't allow for a lot of
the things I wish to use on plain old OS X. However, there are
rumours about (and rumours at best) that an OS X version of the iPad
is imminent. I find that the iPhone OS (although OS X is the
underpinnings of this presentation) is more of a display type of OS,
instead of providing the tools we know so well in OS X. Different
worlds.

For instance, how would you save files? How transfer them to a proper
Mac?

Interesting idea though.

[RobS]

It's interesting to note that the iWork apps in the iPad can read in
Microsoft Office files as well as iWorks for OS X files, but can
output only iWorks files or PDFs. It seems as if connecting to the Mac
is done through Bluetooth or via a WI-FI network, like an iPhone would
do. I can't recall seeing anything about a hardware connection.

I would be VERY interested in a simplified (if necessary) BBEdit for
the iPad. I rarely do anything but web work, so those are the parts of
BBE I need, but I'll forgive others for muddying the waters with their
needs. ;-)

Rob

[BeeRich]

Formatting could be done after transfer to a full Mac anyway. Would be nice to be portable and have a great way of just creating text. As a developer, I'd probably want to whip down ideas and code on-the-fly. Excellent suggestion.

[Jakob Peterhänsel]

On 22/02/2010, at 13.32, RobS wrote:

> It seems as if connecting to the Mac
> is done through Bluetooth or via a WI-FI network, like an iPhone would
> do. I can't recall seeing anything about a hardware connection.
>

> Rob

Nope, it shows a 'shared folder' while docked via USB! Steve said so in the event.. ;-)

[qitnl]

Count me in as +1 for BBEdit for iPad!

I've been using BBEdit for years and have recommended it to tons of
clients. While I don't have an iPod or iPhone, the iPad is very
enticing. I climb mountains and maintain websites. It could replace my
MacBook Air, shaving a pound and a half off my back, and I could make
very good use of the 3G access.

Apart from email and web, all I need are a good text editor and ftp
client - but they would be essential. I'll add a vote here for
BBEdit!

Thanks
-Joe
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