Hacker News Web App for Mobile • Hacker News Board

MatthewPhillips wrote: post #13

Great work! I recommend adding a manifest.webapp file so that Firefox users (and Firefox OS users) can add this as an "app". The manifest file is minimal, and then just a few lines of JavaScript will give you an "install" button. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Apps/Manifest

+1 for an app manifest!

Re: Hacker News Web App for Mobile

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Post by wp7user » Thu, Aug 08, 2013, 3:18 PM UTC

Looks great but unfortunately doesn't work on WP7.5 (gets stuck 'Loading'). I know this isn't a huge demographic of HN readers (possibly just me) but it would be great if it was possible to fix this!

Re: Hacker News Web App for Mobile

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Post by chakalakasp » Thu, Aug 08, 2013, 3:22 PM UTC

I may be suffering from dumb user syndrome, but is there a way to log in to reply to comments?

Re: Hacker News Web App for Mobile

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Post by bauerpl » Thu, Aug 08, 2013, 3:26 PM UTC

Great work! Could you give some tech details about which framework/tools have you used?

Re: Hacker News Web App for Mobile

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Post by coherentpony » Thu, Aug 08, 2013, 3:33 PM UTC

nkuttler wrote: post #29

EtienneK wrote: post #17

I take no credit for this. I found the link for this in another Hacker News thread [1] and thought that more people should know about it, so I submitted it. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6177361

Ah nice, another one :-) See also http://ihackernews.com/ or http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/ or (broken ssl cert) https://msean5423.news.ycombinator.com.moovapp.com/ , and now http://hn.premii.com/ . I was looking into writing one myself. Personally I won't be very excited before I see an app that's open source. I don't understand why somebody wouldn't share the code for such a simple thing.

> Personally I won't be very excited before I see an app that's open source. I don't understand why somebody wouldn't share the code for such a simple thing.

https://github.com/cheeaun/hackerweb

Re: Hacker News Web App for Mobile

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Post by nns » Thu, Aug 08, 2013, 3:35 PM UTC

This is really great (except for the Orange!). But love the interface. Kudos.

My only gripe with all HN interfaces is that none of them can login and hence are read-only. You cant really comment on anything.

Re: Hacker News Web App for Mobile

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Post by HPLovecraft » Thu, Aug 08, 2013, 3:39 PM UTC

hi this is awesome, thanks for sharing!

I do have a problem with it on the iphone, it only shows like 2 or 3 items, then below this its blank - however you can click the blank spot and the link works.... anyone else?