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Facebook for iPhone Should Use The "Email" Keyboard

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A personal pet peeve of mine (and millions of others?) is that the Facebook Connect for iPhone login screen (which is how every Facebook app logs in, including Scrabble and all my own iPhone apps like Puzzle Jewels and Puzzle Jewels World Edition) uses the default keyboard type for entering you username instead of the handy email keyboard which has the @ and . symbols readily available.  This seems to be due to iPhone OS 2.0 not supporting tags for the email keyboard and it just got left that way I guess…

After yet another painful login on some Facebook-enabled iPhone app, I poked around Facebook’s bugzilla and found the bug report for it, and then I tested the input type of email that should tell mobile WebKit to show the email keyboard.  It works!  A quick message over to Brent Goldman, and a few messages back and forth because I didn’t have rights to reopen the bug, and boom the bug should be fixed by next week!  Because the login page is served up from facebook’s servers, no changes needed to all the Facebook-enabled apps out there!  Rock on!

Thank you, Brent, and to everybody else with an iPhone, you’re welcome! ;-)


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