And now only Harmattan to wait for.

It's pretty much set. The brainstorm for portrait input has it's milestone as Harmattan.

But never fear. Live in the present.

so yea, the manipulation mode arrow pops out in portrait mode but not in landscape. whats is up with this!!!

Is there a way to put a standard button on the screen which makes it visible and then if you don't use it for a couple of seconds, makes it disappear? Every time you watch the web page in full screen mode and touch the screen, there is a small icon in the bottom right of the screen to make it full screen. It shouldn't a big deal to add a small icon next to it or perhaps in the other corner to activate the cursor instead of doing this "hit and miss" magic of dragging the finger from left and so on?

Another thing that is extremely irritating is "draw the circle" to zoom in and out. That and the cursor trick never works because every time you try the the whole page starts to pan with your finger instead of bringing in cursor or zoom There is so much of real estate on the screen available to put all these fancy functions. All that you do is touch the screen and there are several of those icons available for you to do extra stuff like zoom in/out or cancel the full screen mode or use the cursor etc.

There is of course another way to implement this. It's the Firefox way where the important functions are hidden on both the edges of the screen. I would stop using the Microb the day Firefox increases it's speed and stability, and also activates additional zoom levels. Right now double tapping to zoom in is not enough for my eyes. There are so many pages with small text that will need at least five or six double taps for my eyes to read