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Re: GitHub's on your phone

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Looks like Github used Angular.js. Would be interesting to hear how they settled on that. I've been using it for a side project and so far have had a positive experience.

Pretty sure they use PJAX.

I don't think they are. It's really minimalistic. Just Zepto & a small bit of scripting for the navbar.

Re: GitHub's on your phone

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From Windows Mobile 8, I see a blue border around images that are linkable [1]. [1] - http://i.imgur.com/bglIKU5.jpg

Can I just say that this is the worst "feature" in the world? It's not just mobile, desktop IE adds a border to images with links by default. As a non-web developer knocking up a site, I didn't think to suppress borders on random elements, and people were asking why the site was ugly in IE 9. Why isn't there a common, default stylesheet across browsers? Please?

I think was probably worse :). I probably would never even visit GitHub from my mobile device, but I just wanted to point that out.

Re: GitHub's on your phone

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Agreed. While I'm happy to see effort here, it seems half-baked. Among the many things not there: * Create new issues * Add tags to issues * View milestones * View diffs

They'll probably want to steer all mobile users to their Github app.

I don't understand this line of thinking. If I'm a Github user and I'm on the website from a phone and go to create an issue then that's actually what I'm hoping to do.

Re: GitHub's on your phone

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Zach, what was the reasoning behind using such large text for the code view? Will there be a zoom in/out option? Or a text size preference?

To make it easy to read code. :) It feels pretty comfortable- squinting isn't fun. We tend to avoid user preferences. If it ends up being a problem, we'll lower the text size at some point.

It seems a bit extreme on my Nexus 4... http://i.imgur.com/hagaiLR.png

Re: GitHub's on your phone

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I'm not sure what took GitHub so long to _finally_ implement a mobile view for the site, but thank you. I have been waiting for this to happen for years, quite literally. Edit: It's worth noting I've heard plenty of counter arguments to using GitHub from my phone. But I will say, sometimes I want to check out a project and possibly browse source and lo and behold I'm not at my desktop. For this reason alone, a mobile…

Perhaps the move to a wide, non-developer audience finally did it?

could you elaborate?

Re: GitHub's on your phone

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Looks like Github used Angular.js. Would be interesting to hear how they settled on that. I've been using it for a side project and so far have had a positive experience.

I don't see any sign of angular - what makes you think that they did?
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