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Also I think people miss, this isn't just a phone full of webapps, it's about opening up the native functionality of the phone to JavaScript. So operating the camera, accelerometer, contacts list API, etc.
This is a real question and no trolling: Why is nobody building a second kind of browser, one which is not based on html and css. A browser which is geared towards app execution and development. A browser which can run apps which can be programmed in a way that is similar to programming Android apps. Where I can for example have a footer without doing some css hacks. DNS and most of our backends could still be reused…
Not 100% sure what you mean, but wasn't Java ME a portable solution, a platform geared towards app execution and development? And in a limited sense it even succeeded... Not sure I want a 2nd iteration though.
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I surf this site on my iphone daily. Yes I occassionally downvote something I did not mean to, yes dead link annoys me if I lose what I typed. But the user experience of sharing and gathering opinions of intelligent well informed people from all corners of the world and backgrounds more than compensates. IMO of course. And thats what I mean - Craigslist is the other "broken" site that does UX well. Its not meant to b…
Please don't say "UX" when you mean "content".
The User Interface is the text box, the outstanding orange/grey theme. But the experience is, upvote buttons that are too small to use well, and great insightful posts from clever informed people. Also me.
I do mean experience. Its a holistic thing.
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No adblock on mobile (yet?) :P Rooted Android phones can install apps[0] that block most ads (I think it only blocks connections to the ads and doesn't do any fancy CSS rules). And Firefox on Android has Adblock Plus browser extension which as far as I know blocks ads like it does on the desktop version. No root needed for this. [0]: AdAway (I use this) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.adaway Adblock…
Firefox Mobile has Adblock Plus available.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/adblock-plus/
I still don't understand why Firefox OS will go anywhere when webOS did not. Aren't we talking about basically the same thing? HTML5/JS/CSS? Is it timing, the changed environment that now focuses attention on web apps? Is it the reputation of Mozilla vs that of Palm/HP? I'm not saying web apps won't have a place, I'm just extremely confused about the seeming contradiction or about-face here.
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Please don't say "UX" when you mean "content".
My experience of HN is mostly reading the content. The User Interface is the text box, the outstanding orange/grey theme. But the experience is, upvote buttons that are too small to use well, and great insightful posts from clever informed people. Also me. I do mean experience. Its a holistic thing.
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Not at all. Dead serious. If HTML/CSS/javascript had been properly developed we wouldn't even have to deal with all the issues surrounding web dev. All these issues have been addressed by OS development decades ago (e.g. duplex connectivity, UX layout, MVC split, performance, just to name a few), yet we still have to deal with them now. Million of man-hours have been wasted due to them.. So no, this is not trolling.…
Mobile apps have made it possible to write your app once and have it work on multiple platforms? Gee, I must have missed that (as I post to HN, a web app that works on multiple platforms).
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I worked as a front-end developer for an adnetwork for two years, so I take a little responsibility for your experience. I tried my best, but there just wasn't that much interest in getting it right. Here's why I think we're all having a hard time with advertising in mobile. Basically, adnetworks are still learning how to do it right, the same way designers and developers are still learning how to do mobile websites…
I'll provide a different option: it takes too much time to get it right! iOS for example provides so many default widget toolkits complete with gradient, sheen, and dropshadow which make it really easy to create a polished experience quickly. The web has no such concept (well, bootstrap is sorta close but not nearly as polished and not for mobile). Why does the web not have these polished frameworks? Simple - ROI. Th…
And pre-made toolkits still require you to tinker with them to get layouts right, make them fit your design and make ads work OK in them. That's true for both the web and native toolkits.