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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 doctorpangloss »

rcchen wrote: post #19

This feels a lot more lightweight than jQuery mobile while retaining the look/functionality needed to work on a mobile web app. Does this seem like a suitable replacement for jQM for a basic mobile web application?

I don't think so. It doesn't support non-Webkit browsers, while jQM / SensaTouch and their friends do.

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

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Post by yesimahuman »

ommunist wrote: post #74
duked wrote: post #4

it's a nice product I wish it would come with a visual editor to compete with codiqa

Codiqa is for product managers when they want to bust UI guys. I'd rather ask Codiqa to remove visual editor feature.

Haha. I'll take that as a compliment. Our goal is to enable more people to build cool stuff, not just developers.

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

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Post by klapinat0r »

minikomi wrote: post #69
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 :)

Just as a reminder/caution: Might not have happend if you checked https://news.ycombinator.com/robots.txt or used the unofficial Hacker News API: http://api.ihackernews.com/

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

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Post by matthewferry »

luke_s wrote: post #56
zem wrote: post #38

my first thought: i have no real interest in building iphone apps, but this looks like it would be really nice to develop mobile-specific webapps and even pages. are there any non-obvious reasons this couldn't just be used to develop and deploy a webapp?

I came here to say the exact same thing. I've worked with JQuery Mobile, and found it to be a bit 'heavyweight'. It likes to take your html elements and replace them with a soup of divs and spans, so that it can support devices such as blackberry, feature phones, etc. I've been wishing for a pure CSS mobile framework for some time. I just tried ratchet out on my Android phone - it works well under chrome, but there a…

Works fairly well on iPhone. Just tried on Android emulator (don't have an actual phone handy)... loaded it up as a web app and also did a trigger.io android build. Some minor css issues, and it looks like it's getting a bunch of extra space at the end of the content area that isn't happening in desktop chrome or on ios though...

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

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Post by dhgamache »

jeffehobbs wrote: post #59

I would feel better about this framework if the demo site worked on an iPad. I know that is shallow, but there you have it.

Sadly, there is no way to fire JS while scrolling on an iPad, so we could either serve the iPhone style docs (which look severely out of proportion, especially on landscape), or accept that the phone will only update on stop of the scroll.

We chose the latter, but will work to improve the docs everywhere in the future.

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

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Post by ommunist »

yesimahuman wrote: post #83
ommunist wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Codiqa is for product managers when they want to bust UI guys. I'd rather ask Codiqa to remove visual editor feature.

Haha. I'll take that as a compliment. Our goal is to enable more people to build cool stuff, not just developers.

You are very welcome.

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

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Post by j-v »

OoTheNigerian wrote: post #77
ommunist wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know. Because only 7-8% of mobile generated Internet traffic accounts for Android.

I would really love a reference for that. I do not doubt you. I just think it would be helpful if there was a reference.

If this survey by a mobile ad company is to be believed, things seem to have changed dramatically from the beginning of the year:

Oct 2012: http://venturebeat.com/2012/10/17/android-smartphones-now-ha...

Jan 2012: http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-android-mobile-web-usag...

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