Too infuriated to write down all the issues with using Miro with a tablet, but wanted to start the conversation to see if anyone else is having any issues? I've recently splashed out on a Microsoft Surface Pro and I am flabbergasted how terrible Miro is on a tablet... My MS pro is actually supposed to be a tablet and laptop rolled into one, so I thought it would be perfect for online tutoring on Miro. Surely a tablet would be one of the main types of devices you would use on a whiteboard app??
I will write a couple of things down as I remember them from this morning's lesson...
1. There is no easy way to paste (that I can see) using Miro.
When you long press the menu doesn't offer 'paste' as an option! 🤯 You can get around this if you are able to force a keyboard pop up. Many tablets do not have this function but mine does thankfully. Why in God's name would it not be in the long press pop up menu? Incredible.
2. Copy and pasting links to pdfs doesn't work.
On desktop and laptop you can go to a link to a pdf, paste the link and the pdf embeds into Miro. You can then extract the pages. It's a really useful feature and I use it constantly... On a tablet it just pastes the link as text.
3. Embed iframe is glitchy.
Often it just appears as an image. I thought it didn't work at all as first, but eventually when I restarted it, it worked.
4. General glitches.
I had to restart it several times when trying to name frames. When I typed something nothing appeared. It still kept saying 'frame 1'. Resetted it and worked fine.
5. Selecting things is glitchy.
I could see the where the cross-hair was on the screen and it was directly over the thing I was trying to select. When I tapped Miro selected something else nearby.
I shall add more to this as it occurs to me.
Suggested features to add:
- The ability to rotate objects using two fingers a you would in pretty much all touch screen apps nowadays.
- the ability to make circles instead of ovals, squares instead of rectangles etc. On a laptop you would hold onto 'alt'.
