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Ask HN: New attempt at mobile markup – keep or bail?

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Re: Ask HN: New attempt at mobile markup – keep or bail?

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Post by Daneel_ »

clamprecht wrote: post #28
joezydeco wrote: post #12

It's an improvement, keep pressing on. One thing I'd do is find a way to minimize the detail line below the headline. It doesn't need to be as large - it tends to wrap into a second line (at least on my iOS 9.1 iPhone 5s). The detail line also doesn't need to be as verbose, IMO... e.g.: 200 points by foobar 8 hours ago | flag | 192 comments could be simplified to 200 pts by foobar 8h ago | flag | 192c

Although I would recommend keeping the "192 comments" link at least as large as it currently is. That's probably the 2nd-most tapped-on link (after the link to the source itself), and it's fairly difficult to aim correctly on mobile. Making it even smaller will make it harder to tap. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts%27s_law

Seconded. The up-vote arrow is also in need of larger scaling, so it's easier to click.

Re: Ask HN: New attempt at mobile markup – keep or bail?

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Post by bossx »

conroy wrote: post #46

The left and right hand side margins are too large. Any chance you can use padding instead of a margin so there isn't a white border around the whole page?

Agree with reducing left/right margins by half, looks a bit squashed on HTC one. Overall much better than before.

Re: Ask HN: New attempt at mobile markup – keep or bail?

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Post by tillinghast »

g0atbutt wrote: post #11

This looks (and more importantly, works) much better than before. For those not on mobile, here is what the new layout looks like on an iPhone 6s on iOS 9.0.1. ==> http://imgur.com/5LgB1xB.jpg Here is what the comment page looks like ==> http://i.imgur.com/ugOASR5.png This is the viewport bug when you try to enter a comment ==> http://i.imgur.com/i0Ekiod.png and http://i.imgur.com/T0NDIFc.png

Viewport "bug" is a "feature" in iOS—change the textarea's font-size to 16px to override the auto-zoom.

Re: Ask HN: New attempt at mobile markup – keep or bail?

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Post by pmalynin »

Add margin on the top to the YC logo, and add some margin on the bottom. And also some padding to the numbers for each story, it looks a bit awkward when they touch the screen.

Would like the comments button a bit bigger, and inside the comments to have a max-width set so that I don't have to scroll left and right.

Overall pretty nice, no more need to zoom in every time I open HN.

Re: Ask HN: New attempt at mobile markup – keep or bail?

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Post by Daneel_ »

g0atbutt wrote: post #11

This looks (and more importantly, works) much better than before. For those not on mobile, here is what the new layout looks like on an iPhone 6s on iOS 9.0.1. ==> http://imgur.com/5LgB1xB.jpg Here is what the comment page looks like ==> http://i.imgur.com/ugOASR5.png This is the viewport bug when you try to enter a comment ==> http://i.imgur.com/i0Ekiod.png and http://i.imgur.com/T0NDIFc.png

This is what I see in Chrome on iOS 9.0.2 / iPhone 6s: http://i.imgur.com/idgEFon.png

While I definitely support the larger format, I'd like to see the top bar laid out in a more mobile-friendly manner. Currently it feels like I've done Ctrl + Plus on the page a few too many times, rather than the site being properly optimised. Shrink the font by one notch and I'm reasonably happy. I realise that this is a work in progress though.

Great start though! My vote goes to 'Keep'.

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