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Re: Show HN: Angular 2 HN – A progressive Hacker News client that works offline

#31

Is there a hacker news client which focuses more on typography. I use official hacker news site on Web. On a Retina Mac book Pro with 13-inch screen. I find the fonts too small. Also, one major issue is the line height. Even with browser zomming, the text lines seem to be too close together. I wonder if other hacker news members also find this problematic.

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Re: Show HN: Angular 2 HN – A progressive Hacker News client that works offline

#32
This is well done, but it proves to me that we are not there yet with javascript really replacing mobile apps, even on a such a simple app:

When you click on a news and then you go back to the ng2 app it takes more than a second to load back the js code when compared to any native HN app.

This is a big limitation for a news reader: of course the javascript app cannot stay in memory when you leave the page and then come back to it.

Re: Show HN: Angular 2 HN – A progressive Hacker News client that works offline

#33

This is well done, but it proves to me that we are not there yet with javascript really replacing mobile apps, even on a such a simple app: When you click on a news and then you go back to the ng2 app it takes more than a second to load back the js code when compared to any native HN app. This is a big limitation for a news reader: of course the javascript app cannot stay in memory when you leave the page and then co…

Why can't it? What's keeping the browser from caching it?

Re: Show HN: Angular 2 HN – A progressive Hacker News client that works offline

#34

Is there a hacker news client which focuses more on typography. I use official hacker news site on Web. On a Retina Mac book Pro with 13-inch screen. I find the fonts too small. Also, one major issue is the line height. Even with browser zomming, the text lines seem to be too close together. I wonder if other hacker news members also find this problematic.

I'm on a plain Linux laptop with a 15-inch screen. HN is the only site which I always read at a 175% zoom.

Re: Show HN: Angular 2 HN – A progressive Hacker News client that works offline

#35

Is there a hacker news client which focuses more on typography. I use official hacker news site on Web. On a Retina Mac book Pro with 13-inch screen. I find the fonts too small. Also, one major issue is the line height. Even with browser zomming, the text lines seem to be too close together. I wonder if other hacker news members also find this problematic.

Checkout mackernews.com I Made that app to scratch my own itch for precisely the reasons you bring up. :)

Re: Show HN: Angular 2 HN – A progressive Hacker News client that works offline

#36

Is there a hacker news client which focuses more on typography. I use official hacker news site on Web. On a Retina Mac book Pro with 13-inch screen. I find the fonts too small. Also, one major issue is the line height. Even with browser zomming, the text lines seem to be too close together. I wonder if other hacker news members also find this problematic.

Did you try this one: https://react-hn.appspot.com/

Re: Show HN: Angular 2 HN – A progressive Hacker News client that works offline

#37

This is well done, but it proves to me that we are not there yet with javascript really replacing mobile apps, even on a such a simple app: When you click on a news and then you go back to the ng2 app it takes more than a second to load back the js code when compared to any native HN app. This is a big limitation for a news reader: of course the javascript app cannot stay in memory when you leave the page and then co…

That sounds more like a UX flaw in the app than something wrong with JS. Why would a newsreader close itself when you actually read the news? It makes more sense to open articles in a new tab (or whatever your specific device does), and leave the reader open, avoiding this problem. That is a fairly universal mechanism anymore when working from a page/app acting as a content hub.

Re: Show HN: Angular 2 HN – A progressive Hacker News client that works offline

#40

Is there a hacker news client which focuses more on typography. I use official hacker news site on Web. On a Retina Mac book Pro with 13-inch screen. I find the fonts too small. Also, one major issue is the line height. Even with browser zomming, the text lines seem to be too close together. I wonder if other hacker news members also find this problematic.

Thanks for this, I usually prefer smaller fonts when reading online but I do agree that the official Hacker News site is quite small. More than a few people have mentioned they would prefer having the ability to increase size/line spacing so I'm going to try to add this.
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