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Ratchet: Prototyping iPhone apps in simple HTML, CSS, and JS

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Re: Ratchet: Prototyping iPhone apps in simple HTML, CSS, and JS

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Post by streptomycin »

jgv wrote: post #48
brianr wrote: post #32

Looks great, guys. Slightly off-topic... the name "Ratchet" seems to be getting pretty crowded. In addition to this, there's also: - Ratchet the websockets library for PHP: http://socketo.me/ - http://ratchet.io - error tracking (my startup) - Ratchet the consulting company (acquired earlier this year), which owned ratchet.com

you forgot about juicy j

And this is relevant because Rap Genius is in YC: http://rapgenius.com/Juicy-j-bands-a-make-her-dance-lyrics#n...

(Although unfortunately this is an example of a poor explanation of a lyric, as it doesn't explain what "ratchet" means, it just paraphrases the lyrics without adding any insight.)

Re: Ratchet: Prototyping iPhone apps in simple HTML, CSS, and JS

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Post by watson »

joshuamerrill wrote: post #39
ayanb wrote: post #34

Interestingly, one of the creators of Ratchet is @fat, who is a co-creator of twitter bootstrap, so he would know a thing or two about adoption of new frameworks.

Considering that, I find it odd that the Ratchet homepage doesn't appear to be using Bootstrap.

It's because it's hosted on GitHub Pagee

Re: Ratchet: Prototyping iPhone apps in simple HTML, CSS, and JS

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Post by javajosh »

bobdole3 wrote: post #27
netghost wrote: post #10

I was pleasantly surprised when I realized that as I scrolled the example on the right changed. Really nice site guys.

Your website is cool, but If all you are doing is setting up some basic widgets like (tables and buttons) why don't you just use interface builder. It's way faster and cuts down on the use of these jerryatric noob tools. Who needs to show someone a prototype of a basic table view anyway? Moreover, creating stuff like this in graphics gives you the resulting assets and similarly creating in interface builder gives you…

First, don't believe the claim about just being a "prototyping tool". That's what any tool or library says when it's trying to be humble. This toolkit's sweet spot is PhoneGap & friends, clearly.

See, the need this fills (and apparently does a good job at) is to give front-end web devs resources to write UIs in PhoneGap that look just like Interface Builder apps. Why would you want to do this? Possibly because you don't have iOS coders. Or perhaps your coders are already familiar with the web, so why not re-use their skillz?

The assumption here is that a front-end web dev can get a native-looking iOS app together faster in PhoneGap than a native developer can get a real iOS app together. While that's not always going to be true, it is probably usually true. And for some apps (like, virtually anything that's just business-oriented and doesn't require crazy stuff), the difference will not be noticeable by end-users (although it might trigger an uncanny valley feeling).

Re: Ratchet: Prototyping iPhone apps in simple HTML, CSS, and JS

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minikomi wrote: post #53

Super hipster site: http://hn.site44.com/ HN top page, parsed by webscript.io, hosted by site44.com, using ratchet :) Edit: pattern matching a little off.. Only 28 results showing up https://gist.github.com/e449457ff64cf4bccc44

Oops.. looks like the script is being blocked :)
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