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Re: HTML-based weather app

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Post by taf2 »

installed it on my phone, but i just see a spinning wheel and a pink background... the 3d effect when flipping to the other locations looks nice, but perhaps the location api times out or there's a service call that's timing out because it looks to be frozen, for my location.

Re: HTML-based weather app

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Post by suhailpatel »

Great design but not sure why this needs to be iOS only and why it needs to be installed to the homescreen.

I still don't think it's better than a native app because it took 30 seconds to actually show anything from a black screen and then a minute or so to load the data on stable fast WiFi (bet it'd be worse over 3G).

A native app has UI code and fancy animations on board and if this was an initial impression of something I wasn't really interested in observing, i'd uninstall it straight away. Granted it does load faster on subsequent launches (caching maybe?) but it's the initial launch which matters to me.

Re: HTML-based weather app

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Post by zevyoura »

elliottkember wrote: post #10
pan69 wrote: post #3

For the love of God, if this is HTML then why is it only working on iOS devices? Is the iPhone/iPad the new Internet Explorer?

If this is HTML, then why not take the source and make a cross-browser version? I guess I don't see the harm in just making an HTML iPhone app. Personally, for instance, I wouldn't be happy if I shipped something as "cross-browser" that looked just awful in most browsers no matter what I tried.

>If this is HTML, then why not take the source and make a cross-browser version?

Given that there's no apparent license agreement, this would presumably be copyright infringement.

Re: HTML-based weather app

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Post by nilliams »

nickpresta wrote: post #9

✓ Claims to be an HTML5 app ✓ Requires iOS for no apparent reason ✓ You must install to homescreen first, even if you are on iOS What does this do and why did you make the above decisions? EDIT: To get around this, open up your JS console, put a breakpoint on line 509 inside sunny.js and set `window.navigator.standalone = true;`. Things should be fine from that point on if you have "emulate touch events" turned on.

I don't think the snarky checklist is necessary and am pretty saddened you've got upvotes for merely stating the obvious in such a derisive way.

We don't know the context in which the creator made this, and who is to say that just because something is written in HTML you have a God-given right to be able to run it in your desktop browser.

I hope more apps like this do appear and push e.g. Android to sort out their home screen/web app integration. We should be able to have the experience this app provides on iOS everywhere by now, here's hoping Android get this sorted soon.

Re: HTML-based weather app

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Post by nilliams »

suhailpatel wrote: post #14

Great design but not sure why this needs to be iOS only and why it needs to be installed to the homescreen. I still don't think it's better than a native app because it took 30 seconds to actually show anything from a black screen and then a minute or so to load the data on stable fast WiFi (bet it'd be worse over 3G). A native app has UI code and fancy animations on board and if this was an initial impression of som…

Is the initial launch not simply comparable to downloading a native app from the app-store?
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