[peterkelly]

Seems like quite a few developers are starting to adopt this idea, which I think is great! There's already a jailbreak version that was done a few days ago (http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/05/04/swipeselection/)

I've been in contact with Daniel Hooper, who originally came up with the idea and made the video posted other day, and he says he's happy to see people adopt it in their apps. I think Daniel deserves a great deal of credit for putting this idea out there in the open instead of patenting it like some large companies might be tempted to do.

I've been implementing this functionality in my own word processor, UX Write, and will have it included in the first version when its released in the next few weeks. I've posted some details on my own implementation at http://www.uxproductivity.com/blog/2012/05/05/text-selection...

I noticed that in this video they have a separate button above the keyboard for triggering selection, instead of using the shift key like in Daniel's demo. I ran into some conflicts with the shift key between my own gesture recognition and the built-in keyboard logic, as I suspect the developer of SlideWriter did too. The separate button looks like a good solution.

[hawaii]

"I think Daniel deserves a great deal of credit for putting this idea out there in the open instead of patenting it like some large companies might be tempted to do."

Agreed. I'm somewhat annoyed that TNW's writeup doesn't even mention Daniel Hooper's video, which sparked all this sudden interest in iOS text editing a few days ago:

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/05/07/slidewriter-might-be-t...

[peterkelly]

In fact, given that this technique doesn't have a name yet, I propose that it henceforth be known as "Hooper Selection"