If you use the Tumblr iPhone app to read your Dashboard, you’ve probably noticed that sometimes a post will appear to have its margins set too wide, so you can only see the left side of it. It happens when there’s a URL or other long block of non-whitespace characters, which screws up the text wrapping:
I don’t know if this is a new feature or it’s been there all along and I just noticed it, but here’s how you get to the rest of the text: Drag from right to left with two fingers. The offending post will scroll horizontally all by itself, leaving everything else where it is. If this works because Tumblr’s developers did some magic to enable it: thanks, guys. It’s always nice to see things improve.
I’ll clear this one up, not to belittle the work of Tumblr’s developers, but to give an iPhone tip to all:
Any time an element on a webpage viewed on the iPhone implements its own scrolling mechanism - and yes, the Tumblr Dashboard in their app is just that, a webpage - you scroll it using the two-finger gesture. This is because the single-finger scroll is reserved for Safari’s top dog, the viewport (I think that’s the level at which the scroll works; I may be wrong on the nomenclature. It may be the “window” or “the browser”.)
