Awesome work!
Hacker News Web App for Mobile
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Re: Hacker News Web App for Mobile
#122Cool, but can it render its own site? Click on this article from within the app...
..... No: http://o7.no/11PNaX2
Just shows the menu links and "Loading"
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#123This is the first website I've ever added to my home screen on iOS, and I was completely unaware that by doing so, I could view the site as if it was a full screen app, not having to deal with the safari interface. I was completely unaware of that, and can now really see the utility in adding web apps to the home screen Also, this is great. Really a solid interface. EDIT: I would honestly like to see this scale on de…
Have you seen http://hackerwebapp.com/? It's very similar and equally slick, but styled specifically to match native iOS apps.
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#124hitting the system back button on android should go back in the web app. currently it just closes the page.
I recommend you look at how angular handles this.
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#125I wish the real HN website would get a facelift...I mean seriously, at this point it's just lazy.
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#126This is excellent. I have used http://hackerwebapp.com/ on my iPhone for a while now, but I will put this in rotation to see how they compare. At first glance, they seem very similar and equally slick. A few comments/suggestions based on my experience on iPhone 5 iOS 6 Safari (presuming that OP is the creator, or the creator is in this thread somewhere):
When I collapse a comment, I think all subcomments should disappear as well. However, I understand that there are valid use cases for both behaviors. Maybe you could work both functionalities into the UI?
I don't think you should be pushing onto the history stack every time I toggle between Article and Comments view. It's weird that if I toggle 5 times, I have to click the back button in the top left 5 times to get back to the main news feed. That back button should probably just always go straight back to the main news feed view.
I encountered bugs trying to highlight text on comments. When I press and hold on a word, the word highlights as expected, but when I then release my touch, it registers a click, which then collapses the entire comment I was trying to highlight. I'm not sure exactly how Safari passes DOM events, but there's probably a way for you to identify "long clicks" and ignore them.
Several of the loading spinners you show over buttons are awkwardly positioned. It looks like you place the spinner precisely on the pixel I clicked. It would be nicer to center it over the button I clicked.
The article view screwed up on a lot of articles, but I'm sure you're aware of that. :)
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#127This is the first website I've ever added to my home screen on iOS, and I was completely unaware that by doing so, I could view the site as if it was a full screen app, not having to deal with the safari interface. I was completely unaware of that, and can now really see the utility in adding web apps to the home screen Also, this is great. Really a solid interface. EDIT: I would honestly like to see this scale on de…
I hadn't known that either, nice find!
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#128hitting the system back button on android should go back in the web app. currently it just closes the page. I recommend you look at how angular handles this.
As far as I know, web apps don't have direct access to or control over the Android back button. I think the solution is to add history events, because in browsers the Android back button defaults to navigating back in history, but this web app already seems to be doing that.
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#129I wrote this client. Never submitted to HN, because I wasn't sure if anyone will like it. After it reached to the FP, my vps server stop responding. So I moved it to S3. S3 doesn't gzip content. Now it takes twice the time to load the app. Thanks EtienneK for submitting to HN. Also forgot to mention that you can download an android app from play store. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.premii.hn
What are you using for stripping the content from the links?
I am using readability.
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#130Well done! Is there a way to see more articles once you reach the bottom? Also what font did you use for the webpage icon?
No, there is no way to see more articles. I never clicked on the next button on HN so i didn't bother to implement that. It should be easy to add it.
I am using icomoon.io for icon font.