Facebook Tablet App: Navigating articles 11
by Adam Marks Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:20 pm EST
Instead of just taking the Facebook app for webOS phones and making it bigger for the TouchPad, the webOS developer team built an entirely new Facebook app (called "Facebook Tablet") in Enyo, complete with sliding panes and website previews right in the app. While some features of the phone version seem to be missing (for example, in-app photo uploading, requiring you to have to add them in the Photos app instead) and may not have all of the features of the "official" apps on other platforms, the tablet-sized webOS Facebook app is still pretty full featured and easy to use. But, in case you need some help navigating the app and articles, here are some tips for you
- In your News Feed, there are two ways to view your articles. In a chronological listing or as a more graphical "newspaper" style view. You can switch between these using the
icons on the bottom right of the screen - When viewing your News Feed of articles or the Wall of one of your friends on the TouchPad's Facebook app, tapping the article will bring up a panel on the right that displays any comments or "likes" of the article
- Tapping that article again (or, if an article has a link to a webpage, initially just tapping that link) will cause a new panel to open that focuses specifically on that one article. If there was a link to a website in that article, it will even load up that website within the viewing pane.
- To view additional articles, you can either go back by tapping the sliding pane
icon to go back one level of webOS sliding panes, or you can actually swipe left or right to move to the previous or next article, respectively. The easiest way to accomplish this swipe to move between articles is to start from within the comments pane on the right side of the screen (note that while this is a fancy way to move between articles, it's also the slowest, as it needs to load up the entire article before letting you move to the next one) - Finally, you can also tap the author's name of the specific post to load up that person's profile
Thanks to @Techiatry on twitter for the "slide between articles" tip
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When I bought the Touchpad, I instantly fell in love with the app. I then fell out of love one I saw how poorly they covered the news feed. I wish they could resolve that. But for now, I'll use the website and be content with that.
Agreed. It's really strange how some people never show up in the news feed of the app, when they do show up in the website. Same applies to pictures. I suspect it has something to do with individual users' privacy settings in relation to API, but it's just not reliable, whatever the case may be.
whenever I click on a notifaction, it takes me to the web Browser, is there a better way of checking notifications?
I may be misreading the post, but it sounds like you're saying that one cannot upload photos from the Touchpad Facebook app. You can do this by tapping on the little orange thing next to "What's on your mind?". It lets you select a photo.
I wish HP or Facebook would put out an update for this app to make it more like the iphone and android Facebook apps. Maybe they'll put it out as open source soon!
I've given up on the app. I prefer the full site. Works just like on my desktop.
The TouchPad Facebook app looks great. But to call it "pretty full featured" is a bit of a joke, given that (as others have said above) it only displays some status updates but not the whole set. This makes it entirely useless to me. Attractive, but useless. (I roughly understand the reasons for this, and why it's been hampered in the way it has, but that doesn't make the app any better.)
I just use the app for messaging. It seems to fit the page better for me.
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