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Re: Ask HN: Mobile site

#21

Post by hobarrera » Sun, Mar 15, 2015, 2:24 PM UTC

Where is this mobile site? I'm seeing the same old desktop version on my mobile and no new "Mobile version" link.

I don't see any changes to this one to make it responsive either.

Re: Ask HN: Mobile site

#22

Post by mproud » Sun, Mar 15, 2015, 2:26 PM UTC

I use http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/, except it doesn’t support writing comments directly (you have to click the link go to the original page).

Re: Ask HN: Mobile site

#23

Post by nailer » Sun, Mar 15, 2015, 2:27 PM UTC

nether wrote: post #6

No, I vastly prefer the mobile site on my phone.

Please, on #hnmain:

  width: 100%; // Fixes white borders (browser default table width is normally something like 85%) 
  max-width: 750px; // Keeps columns from getting overly wide on desktop

Re: Ask HN: Mobile site

#24

Post by raldi » Sun, Mar 15, 2015, 2:28 PM UTC

The new frontpage disables Android's double-tap-and-drag-down zoom function, which is a gigantic regression for a site with tiny arrows and tiny links.

Re: Ask HN: Mobile site

#25

Post by magoon » Sun, Mar 15, 2015, 2:28 PM UTC

At least we can still zoom. +1

Re: Ask HN: Mobile site

#26

Post by Mahn » Sun, Mar 15, 2015, 2:29 PM UTC

The header looks a bit odd to me, but otherwise I find it a massive improvement; no need to zoom any longer.

Re: Ask HN: Mobile site

#27

Post by cauterized » Sun, Mar 15, 2015, 2:29 PM UTC

zodvik wrote: post #17

autoreverse wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FWIW font size is ideal for me.

Font size seem ideal on homepage. But, font-size for comments is smaller.

It seems to differ per page. Font size on the homepage and threads page are ridiculously large for me in landscape and ok in portrait. Font size on article comments is ok now - think they may have just tweaked it.

Edit: I take that back. Still unreadably large in portrait.

Re: Ask HN: Mobile site

#28

Post by falcolas » Sun, Mar 15, 2015, 2:30 PM UTC

cddotdotslash wrote: post #4

It's like they added a percentage width to some tables and now it's "mobile." (Edit: spelling)

Amazing the (IMO) improvements a few percentages adds to the readability on mobile.

Re: Ask HN: Mobile site

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Post by realusername » Sun, Mar 15, 2015, 2:31 PM UTC

lvillani wrote: post #18

I use HackerWeb ( http://hackerwebapp.com ) on both my iPhone, iPad and Fire Phone (Firefox OS). It is a superbly executed HTML5 application.

I also use this one, it's really well done and works very well.

Re: Ask HN: Mobile site

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Post by nailer » Sun, Mar 15, 2015, 2:34 PM UTC

hobarrera wrote: post #21

Where is this mobile site? I'm seeing the same old desktop version on my mobile and no new "Mobile version" link. I don't see any changes to this one to make it responsive either.

OP means responsive design, not 2010-era separate mobile site. Front page is responsive (but still needs some fixes), comments pages are still super wide and need scrolling on each line.