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works fine on kindle fire

williambuell   November 18th, 2011 4:14p.m.

Testing now

nick   November 19th, 2011 8:47a.m.

Good to hear it, williambuell. Here's a question: when you write a stroke, how long does it take for the writing to catch up with your finger? On other Android devices there's an annoying delay, so I'm wondering if it's the same with this one in the Silk browser.

xiaobill   November 19th, 2011 9:48p.m.

Delay? I use a Motorola Photon 4G and I never notice any delay (except when I'm driving with someone, and I lose my 4G signal! >.<)

nick   November 20th, 2011 5:53p.m.

The delay I'm talking about, which I've seen on every Android device I've tested so far, is like this: your squigs are always a little behind your finger, as if the input is delayed for a split second before Skritter can process it. I think the delay comes from the way that the input events are passed from hardware to browser to Flash, where Flash doesn't get the event right away.

Do you not see that on your Photon 4G?

xiaobill   November 20th, 2011 6:43p.m.

Hmm...maybe it's very slight. Here, I took a video and you can judge for yourself. I can kind of see lag, but I guess I never noticed it.

http://youtu.be/sRbOoWJ18UI

Byzanti   November 20th, 2011 7:31p.m.

That's very good actually. Much better than the Samsung Galaxy SII I tried on. Still that good if you write fast?

nick   November 20th, 2011 9:36p.m.

Very interesting; that's the fastest Android device I've seen yet for Skritter. I wonder if it's a difference in quality or in quantity (of delay).

Catherine :)   November 21st, 2011 1:49p.m.

I found testing on my friend's Nexus S that it was slower writing raw squigs than the stroke by stroke method shown here - which is a pretty big problem because I like the more natural method. And, the faster I wrote the more I noticed it.

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