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Re: Ask HN: Please review my webapp (Streetread)

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Post by carpo »

mstefff wrote: post #73
jfarmer wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While true for Opera, it's rather generous to call IE6 a "competent browser."

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…

If you want to get people in large corporations using your site, you have to support IE6 for a while longer I think. I've worked in a few of these, and they all move extremely slowly in upgrading. I can see some of them keeping IE6 for at least another year or more.

Re: Ask HN: Please review my webapp (Streetread)

#92

Post by mstefff »

carpo wrote: post #91
mstefff wrote: post #73

Earlier 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…

If you want to get people in large corporations using your site, you have to support IE6 for a while longer I think. I've worked in a few of these, and they all move extremely slowly in upgrading. I can see some of them keeping IE6 for at least another year or more.

I know I hear you. It definitely should be done but I'm not even sure if it's possible. I'll begin looking more into it shortly. At the moment, not a single feature or layout segment is operational.

Re: Ask HN: Please review my webapp (Streetread)

#93

Post by Elepsis »

mstefff wrote: post #73
jfarmer wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While true for Opera, it's rather generous to call IE6 a "competent browser."

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…

jQuery at least claims to be compatible with Opera. It might be worthwhile to do a little bit of research into your issues.

Re: Ask HN: Please review my webapp (Streetread)

#95

Post by uuilly »

There is a lot of talk in this thread about your target market. They're right, you'll never beat bloomberg. But... I come from a family of Wall St. people and I can attest to the fact that most "street" news is consumed by non-insiders. My dad is a financial advisor and essentially spends his day telling people that what they saw on CNN Moneyline (or whatever it's called) isn't true. So there are plenty of non-pros who you could target.

Personally I don't care about the market so I'm not the one to ask. But I thought your site did what it needed to do well... Godspeed.

Re: Ask HN: Please review my webapp (Streetread)

#96

Post by terpua »

Quick comments:

1) Ability to add our own news/blog sources (good for you to expand news sources) 2) Remove username from registration (I realize it's only one field but it's one field less to fill in and don't see the point to it) 3) Make news sources font smaller and in different color. If hyperlinked, it will go to the actual collection of articles from that news source.

Simple stock news engine for hobby investors. Useful app.

Re: Ask HN: Please review my webapp (Streetread)

#97

Post by cjc »

mstefff wrote: post #70
cjc wrote: post #64

mstefff, I think this is a great idea, but I have to agree with the majority of commenters that the implementation is poorly executed in three main ways: 1) the scrolling simply does not work as expected 2) you unnecessarily reinvented the scroll bar (axod elaborates very well on this) 3) needing to sign up before typing in a ticker symbol is a major turn off These are all easily fixable problems, but you are showing…

The scrolling is fixed. Please check it out and let me know.

much much better - exactly what people were looking for :]

Re: Ask HN: Please review my webapp (Streetread)

#98

Post by ideamonk »

DESIGN - the transparent menu doesn't look CLEAR or nice when it overlays the logos of companies. Besides, the theme is about rounded corners so why is the dropdown of the menu rectangle, its positioning should be lowered by 3-5px and do something about the transparency.
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