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Re: A better mobile version of HN. Please review my weekend project

#32

Post by andrewljohnson »

Here I am reading hn on a Droid and boy is it terrible. Text too small. Text poorly wrapped. Buttons misclicked all over the place. So bless you sir. With half a billion smart phones sold in just the last couple of years, this is overdue.

You still need to bump up the fonts on the FP about 2 points. On mobile, favor horsey big usable text over any concession to style.

Re: A better mobile version of HN. Please review my weekend project

#34

Post by ronnier »

phunel wrote: post #33

Would love to see the text displayed inversely - whether in traditional terminal style (green text on black background) or something similar to arc90's readability style.

That should be doable with just CSS. I put on a "settings" page on my TODO list to do just that.

Re: A better mobile version of HN. Please review my weekend project

#35

Post by omaranto »

Looks nice! You should steal my favorite iCombinator feature, though: the Instapaper links. Also, the Article text links all return errors, but I'll take it on faith they produce or will produce in the future some easy to read version of article text.

Re: A better mobile version of HN. Please review my weekend project

#37

Post by ronnier »

bdotdub wrote: post #29
ronnier wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really like icombinator but I wanted to address some problems and add new features (View the article text, collapse/expand comments, and return to the previous position when using the browsers back button).

This is awesome! (iCombinator author here :) Looking forward to the new features coming to your app!

Thanks a lot! My first attempt with mobile specific web pages. A lot to learn.

Re: A better mobile version of HN. Please review my weekend project

#38

Post by ronnier »

omaranto wrote: post #36
wmf wrote: post #10

I guess by mobile you mean iPhone; it looks pretty poor on Fennec/Maemo or probably any landscape device.

If it is any consolation it doesn't look very nice on the iPhone in landscape either.

I fixed the landscape problem. It turns out that adding -webkit-text-size-adjust:none; prevents the text from enlarging when rotating the phone to landscape. Adding that appears to have fixed it.
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