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jed_watson

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About jed_watson

Entrepreneur in Sydney, Australia. UI enthusiast, javascript programmer, and photographer. Creator of KeystoneJS (http://keystonejs.com) and partner at Thinkmill (http://thinkmill.com.au)

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    I phrased it badly - I meant the modal scroll handling that was implemented hasn't worked out well, no red flags for React here. position: fixed is a more robust way of positioning…

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    Not sure if you saw my other comment below but this is a major goal for us with Elemental. We're not there today, because we're working through the best way to componentize the CSS…

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    Comment #10108871

    Thanks for pointing that out - webre using react-router and it works locally, not sure why hosting on github pages breaks it. Will check it out.

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    Comment #10108868

    It means we've borrowed the css directly from Bootstrap for the grid (as well as some variables and mixins) so, aside from giving credit, if you are familiar with the bootstrap gri…

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    Comment #10108858

    Elemental UI is a competitor, sort of, I guess. But it's not a zero-sum game, and we've learned (and borrowed) a lot from Bootstrap. More specifically, we're not porting Bootstrap …

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    Comment #10108843

    Thanks! We're porting their grid system manually at the moment, the foundations don't really change much and we're quite selective about what's being ported. We're actually experim…

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    Comment #9993442

    Thanks! that's really great to hear.

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    Comment #8836368

    Have you heard Pete Hunt's angle on "Separation of Concerns" vs. "Separation of Technologies"? imo JSX doesn't fall into this trap, it just looks like it should. His JSConf EU talk…

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    I'm not familiar with the benefits of HostGator but how is this better than spinning up a free Heroku dyno to serve your node.js app? That's also a very effective solution for low-…

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    Comment #8738154

    Yes - we've already got it working with iOS and android using Cordova, Windows should be straight-forward as well. There's a Cordova project that builds for iOS in the sample proje…

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    We won't be limiting the look to iOS 8, we just started there because it's the platform we're developing some commercial apps for using TouchstoneJS at the moment. At least two of …

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    Comment #8734576

    Cheers! We're fans of Ionic ourselves (and use their excellent icon library) I think the biggest differentiating factor between it and TouchstoneJS will be the platforms they're bu…

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    Comment #8734528

    Thanks! We're stoked with the great feedback this is getting. We will have more docs + examples up in the coming weeks, aside from that we're currently using it in three commercial…

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    Comment #8734278

    It is, and the source for the demo is here: https://github.com/Thinkmill/touchstone-starter

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    Thanks for letting me know. We haven't had a chance to test yet on a wide range of Android browsers, but it shouldn't be like that. If you could open an issue on the GitHub project…

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    Comment #8734146

    Nope, I think you're spot on.

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    Comment #8734143

    You need a lot more control over how the views transition, pass state, etc. in order to create a native-feeling app. The paradigm of links and parameters falls short, and eventuall…

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    Comment #8734110

    The app framework is structured as a React mixin, everything else (lists, form controls, etc) is just React Components you can drop into your app. So for the most part how you stru…

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    Thanks! we're putting a lot of detail into the animations to make it feel as native as possible. The touch events too - you'll notice that if you touch a link, and move too far awa…

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    I was just thinking a similar thing. If user agents have evolved to effectively become a way of saying "Our browser supports standards X" (where X is an awkward grouping based on w…