iPhone Keyboard Trick
I’d noticed a while back that if you hold down a key on the iPhone keyboard, such as the ‘E’, for a second or two, you get a pop-up menu with variations on the ‘E’ theme, like ‘é’, ‘è’, ‘ê’, and so on.
But what I hadn’t noticed until just now is that the “.com” key, which appears when you’re expected to type in a URL, exhibits the same behavior: if you hold it down, you get a popup menu with “.net”, “.edu”, “.org”, and “.com”.
In addition, since I have the French keyboard installed, the popup contains “.fr”.
In the email application, when you’re entering an address, there’s no “.com” button, just a “.” (period) button. However, it also has the domain popup, with the same TLDs as the “.com” button.
I’ve gotta say: it’s little touches like this that help the interface get the hell out of the way of whatever it is you’re trying to do.
The Android interface has the same little shortcuts, which are very nice.