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Hacker News reader for iPhone (new native app)

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Re: Hacker News reader for iPhone (new native app)

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Post by bensummers »

Could you do something like Readability on the article text? One of the most painful things about reading HN on the iPhone is waiting for the stuff around the article to load. Even having an option to only load images on demand would be a good start.

http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/

Re: Hacker News reader for iPhone (new native app)

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Post by danh »

bensummers wrote: post #3

Could you do something like Readability on the article text? One of the most painful things about reading HN on the iPhone is waiting for the stuff around the article to load. Even having an option to only load images on demand would be a good start. http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/

One way to achieve almost the same effect is through Google's mobile reformatting thingy:

http://www.google.com/gwt/x?u=news.ycombinator.com

Fast, simple and ugly as hell...

Re: Hacker News reader for iPhone (new native app)

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Post by ironkeith »

I don't know about this; it doesn't appear to support authentication, or allow me to upvote/downvote (I get that it probably can't). My only gripe with using HN in Mobile Safari is that sometimes when I go to upvote/downvote I press the wrong one (my thumb lacks precision). This doesn't solve that problem for me, so I can't really see myself spending $2 for increased padding.

Re: Hacker News reader for iPhone (new native app)

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Post by mitchellh »

Sorry for the slightly off topic, but I can't watch the video for this app due to the following. Its probably an issue with Vimeo but I figured I'd just post it here.

My flash debug player through this off for the video player, seems that vimeo is missing a crossdomain.xml on their assets server? Or I have a finicky flash player.

  SecurityError: Error #2123: Security sandbox violation: Loader.content: http://bitcast.vimeo.com/vimeo/swf/moogaloop_np.swf?clip%5Fid=8131906&server=vimeo%2Ecom&show%5Ftitle=0&show%5Fbyline=0&show%5Fportrait=1&color=00adef&fullscreen=1&autoplay=1&embed%5Flocation=http%253A%252F%252Fmichaelgrinich%2Ecom%252Fhackernews%252F&moogaloop%5Ftype=moogaloop cannot access http://assets.vimeo.com/portraits/defaults/d.75.jpg. No policy files granted access.
	at flash.display::Loader/get content()
	at com.as3.moogaloop4::ClipInfo/onPortraitComplete()
	at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
	at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
	at com.as3.classes.loader::MassLoader/onComplete()
	at com.as3.classes.loader::MassLoader/onFileComplete()
	at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
	at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
	at com.as3.classes.loader.items::ImageItem/onComplete()

Re: Hacker News reader for iPhone (new native app)

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Post by grinich »

mitchellh wrote: post #8

Sorry for the slightly off topic, but I can't watch the video for this app due to the following. Its probably an issue with Vimeo but I figured I'd just post it here. My flash debug player through this off for the video player, seems that vimeo is missing a crossdomain.xml on their assets server? Or I have a finicky flash player. SecurityError: Error #2123: Security sandbox violation: Loader.content: http://bitcast.v…

Hmm. I'll check it out. What's your browser/os?
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