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Re: Show HN: Pen.io

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Post by eps » Thu, Feb 10, 2011, 1:42 AM UTC

coderdude wrote: post #19

It's good to see some of the UI elements from Premium Pixels in use. I always liked those text boxes. (The submit button as well.)

The text input boxes look completely messed up in Safari on iPad. Needs fix in' perhaps?

Re: Show HN: Pen.io

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Post by coderdude » Thu, Feb 10, 2011, 1:45 AM UTC

eps wrote: post #21

coderdude wrote: post #19

It's good to see some of the UI elements from Premium Pixels in use. I always liked those text boxes. (The submit button as well.)

The text input boxes look completely messed up in Safari on iPad. Needs fix in' perhaps?

Ugh... input elements are the worst when it comes to compatibility across different browsers and operating systems. I've wracked my brain for hours working out various techniques to get a simple newsletter signup for working right across the majority of my visitor's platforms. I think anyone who has dealt with that can feel for the guy. ;)

Re: Show HN: Pen.io

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Post by eps » Thu, Feb 10, 2011, 1:45 AM UTC

dhimes wrote: post #4

Very cool idea, and nice site. I noticed that you are serving your own jquery. I've read that it's better to link to Google's host as it is more likely to be cached (and other reasons). Is this a conscious decision on your part, or is it just a part of the puzzle you haven't wrestled with yet? (Honest question- I don't know the right answer because I haven't wrestled with it yet.) Google jquery link:

One reason not to use CDN-hosted common scripts is to not share visitors statistics with the CDN. Believe it or not, but it is a valid concern for many businesses.

Re: Show HN: Pen.io

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Post by feint » Thu, Feb 10, 2011, 1:47 AM UTC

lordlarm wrote: post #13

I wanted to test this and decided on the name "test", which was taken. I tried "test1", then "test12" .. etc. My point: let me choose if I want a nice URL, and if I decide, then tell me if it is taken. I the meantime I would have enjoyed something like: pen.io/fjS7f Besides from that: great idea and nice design.

good point. I'll look at making a random URL function

Re: Show HN: Pen.io

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Post by ElbertF » Thu, Feb 10, 2011, 1:49 AM UTC

Be careful with JavaScript and saving plain text passwords in cookies:

http://cookie.pen.io

I just stole your password. :)

Re: Show HN: Pen.io

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Post by coderdude » Thu, Feb 10, 2011, 1:49 AM UTC

Groxx wrote: post #7

Hm. Anyone know why Firefox 4b11 wouldn't respect that tag? It's throwing it into ISO-8859-1.

It's probable that Firefox is a little "smarter" about content encodings than to simply rely on what the document claims to be. The site is being served up as text/html, so despite his XML declaration at the top I believe the spec says to fall back on ISO-8859-1 in situations of uncertainty and that is also the default charset for text/html.

Re: Show HN: Pen.io

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Post by JonnieCache » Thu, Feb 10, 2011, 1:55 AM UTC

sfphotoarts wrote: post #12

I like this, however, I'd rather this be something I could deploy privately on my own web hosting. I've been looking for a simple cms system when I write plain text files and something like this generate all the pagination, layout and so forth.

https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll