It's awful. I thought HN just didn't care. Why is this so hard? I do this every day for work and HN should be dead simple. Is this saying HN doesn't have anyone who knows how to do this? EDIT: My initial post was from my phone. Now I'm on my workstation and I see the markup here is antiquated, pre-1998 HTML. No wonder this is so horrid. You should be ashamed but, still, I could do better.
I see cowardly HN'ers downvoting my post without commenting on how they think I'm wrong (I'm not and I'm better than you) but I restrained myself on what I really thought. My grandmother could write better markup than this; and she's been dead for 50 years!
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They are down voting your attitude. Try rephrasing it in a nicer way instead of being rude to people.
Re: Ask HN: New attempt at mobile markup – keep or bail?
#172Keep! And increase all font sizes to at least 1em. And give this comments page the same treatment, please.
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#174Keep it. Looks great, true to the original, and now readable on my constant companion.
Re: Ask HN: New attempt at mobile markup – keep or bail?
#175Next up: Comment thread folding.
It's the one feature that keeps me from switching from https://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/ on mobile, or uninstalling the Hacker News Enhancement Suite in Chrome.
Re: Ask HN: New attempt at mobile markup – keep or bail?
#176Not perfect, but definitely an improvement.
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#177it would be nice to have a button to use desktop version at top or bottom.. on iOS it's nice but I also like seeing more headlines at one time
Re: Ask HN: New attempt at mobile markup – keep or bail?
#178Slight improvement over zooming in manually... but my main issue is with the voting buttons and that seems to have remained unchanged.
Re: Ask HN: New attempt at mobile markup – keep or bail?
#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
"think thrice before using your votes". I remember this being also used as the justification for not having clearly separated up/down buttons. I totally disagree with it, fwiw.
It makes some sense - In theory you wouldn't cast your vote prematurely (after reading the first sentence for example).
In theory, but in practice do they have some evidence that people care more when they can't undo their vote?
Re: Ask HN: New attempt at mobile markup – keep or bail?
#180The design looks actually worse on Windows Phone[1,2]. The text is (or feels) a bit smaller now on portrait mode, so I'd have to switch to landscape. And the top menu is out of alignment. (Edit: The text is definitely smaller. I think it used to reflow nicely with bigger text but now it doesn't, forcing me to zoom out all the way)
Since we are talking about mobile, I'd focus on improving the arrows - I've downvoted way too many comments due to that.
[1] http://i.imgur.com/akAyUxP.jpg [2] http://i.imgur.com/NWVSHMW.jpg