Ahh! Broken back button! Really, really annoying.
Ask HN: Please review my webapp (Streetread)
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Re: Ask HN: Please review my webapp (Streetread)
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
Most people in my firm (used to be one of the top wall st firms until, say, around march :) swear by bloomberg. So do the guys who bought us. You'll definitely need some sort of login system that allows chatting and a LOT more information if you wanna get these people off their bloomberg terms.
Hello to you there @ Bear Stearns. I'm a Bloomberg core infrastructure engineer, and I can second that. I can type in a symbol and type in a functional mnemonic, hit enter and see a news aggregate pertaining to a certain security, along with just about everything else you want to know about the security and/or the company underlying it. And of course Bloomberg messaging is a premier form of OTC trading. I understand…
Hello. I'd like to talk to you about life working for Bloomberg if you wouldn't mind. jdennis@gmail.
Re: Ask HN: Please review my webapp (Streetread)
#83Ahh! Broken back button! Really, really annoying.
Broken back button?
Re: Ask HN: Please review my webapp (Streetread)
#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good point. I know IE6 still has a decent user-base but I really felt I shouldn't spend the enormous amount of time necessary to make this site work with it. IE8 is due out soon and for web developers to continue supporting IE6 is the reason why its still around. I only wish more people would stop supporting it. Opera on the other hand is a great browser but I can't get jQuery to work correctly with it at all. And th…
According to w3schools.com's browser stats -- which, by the way, are slanted toward people with an interest in web design -- IE6's share has only been dropping by about 1.5% a month for the last year, and is still around 26%. It's safe to assume IE6 support will remain completely unavoidable for any serious business, especially those pitching to a more traditional (read "technologically backwards") audience.
Thank you! So many people miss the point that while it might be a useful ideological and labor saving decision to not support IE6, it also limits the size of your market (possibly drastically). That's a decision that should be based on business principles, not just taste. Sure, if you're targeting geeks, ditch it, but if you're targeting "mortals", you'd better darn well support their browser if you want a 2nd (well, 1st I guess) look.
Re: Ask HN: Please review my webapp (Streetread)
#85You'll stuggle.
You won't even touch the professional markets dominated by reuter/bloomberg/etc. They're playing a whole different ballgame.
Which means you'll have to go after the google/yahoo/ms finance market. Which might be possible, but you don't look to have any competitive advantage over those services at all. While on the other hand they have vast competitive advantages over you.
My gut feeling from your site and your comments is that you've gone into this project without a good understanding of the market (what's currently available, why people use it) and without a clear user in mind.
My personal opinion is that you should scrap it, chalk up the experience, and have another go, but this time concentrate on something you have domain knowledge of.
Re: Ask HN: Please review my webapp (Streetread)
#86allow people to vote up some of the news stories, and have the main page display the popular stories.
I considered having this as a feature but didn't for two reasons. Since this is geared towards the investment community, I felt most serious investors don't care about community and what others think, and last, what's popular to some may not even be relevant to others in this industry.
I've yet to meet a serious investor who didn't care about the consensus view. Groupthink impacts the prices of stock as much as fundamentals.
Re: Ask HN: Please review my webapp (Streetread)
#87Hey, My latest web application went public today and I'd love to hear some input from everyone. The site is called Streetread. I've been dubbing it 'Google Reader meets Wall Street'. Streetread is a single-page ajax-driven interface that simplifies the process of gathering the large amount of news and data that flood Wall Street every day. The site aggregates the latest headlines from over 20 of the leading financial…
Horizontal scrolling? Really? Seems like a JavaScript guitar solo to me. If I want news about a symbol, I should be able to type it in. A vertical list of news sources would be MUCH more scannable.
"javascript Guitar Solo"
Nice phrase. I really like it. Also, apt.
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#88Ahh! Broken back button! Really, really annoying.
Broken back button?
When I click to go to an outside article (say a company profile), it shows in something like an iframe, and the only way to return to the front page is to click the "Return to reader" link provided. My browser back button doesn't do anything.
Re: Ask HN: Please review my webapp (Streetread)
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
Broken back button?
When I click to go to an outside article (say a company profile), it shows in something like an iframe, and the only way to return to the front page is to click the "Return to reader" link provided. My browser back button doesn't do anything.
That's because you aren't going to a new page. The entire interface never reloads.
Re: Ask HN: Please review my webapp (Streetread)
#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
When I click to go to an outside article (say a company profile), it shows in something like an iframe, and the only way to return to the front page is to click the "Return to reader" link provided. My browser back button doesn't do anything.
That's because you aren't going to a new page. The entire interface never reloads.
I understand the technical reason for the behavior. It'd be awesome if the back button worked anyway.
http://www.contentwithstyle.co.uk/Articles/38/fixing-the-bac...