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Website is totally obnoxious on a mobile device - no pinch zoom, no scrolling, must press little dots to "scroll".
Website is totally obnoxious on a mobile device - no pinch zoom, no scrolling, must press little dots to "scroll".
It's just as obnoxious to try scroll through on desktop.
Great effort, lovely little device. Building your own hardware is not easy to do cost effectively! But a few niggles: - Quoting RAM and flash in Mbits? Whilst that may be the norm for buying components, I'd argue most people familiar with OpenWrt and the Raspberry-Pi generation are going to miss this detail and think "Oh wow, 512MB RAM and 128MB flash!", when in fact it's 1/8th of that. - There's some mention of a st…
The Mbit thing is quite common in the embedded world. When I saw this my first thought was "oh wow, twice the specs of my current favorite OpenWRT hack platform (the TL-703N) at about the same price and with gpio exposed . Awesome.)"
- OpenWrt's table of hardware page: http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/start
- Raspberry Pi specs: http://www.raspberrypi.org/product/model-b/
- Minnowboard Max specs: http://www.minnowboard.org/meet-minnowboard-max/
- Beaglebone Black specs: http://beagleboard.org/black
Oh and I love the reference to TL-WR703N, that little thing was pretty special! I was always disappointed by the MR3020, which is basically identical but a lot larger for no obvious reason.
Once it exists, its almost like computorium, becoming the center of nearly every maker project and then staying there because its so cheap you don't have to choose which projects get your precious dev boards.
This is a fantastic step towards that goal.
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It's just as obnoxious to try scroll through on desktop.
Any electronics-related web page that uses "shield" other than as meaning "RF emission/reception blocking element" is automatically obnoxious, mobile or not.
Can anyone comment on the read/write performance of SPI flash? Seems like it would be similar in performance to SD card, but without the wear leveling?
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I bet if we could read their Chinese website, the copy would be perfect. Some manager who probably doesn't speak much English has tasked a random person on their staff who went to college in the US or UK with writing their English copy, without realizing the difference between "this person can communicate effectively 1:1 in English" and "this person can write formal English like a native speaker". In other words, a t…
Yes, the Chinese website ( http://cn.wrtnode.com/ ) is perfectly fine. (Chinese is my second language.) However, I would not immediately characterise the copy as written by a US/UK college grad though - it feels like it is written by someone who learnt English on the mainland. I don't really know why companies in various parts of East Asia don't hire/outsource to someone who actually is highly fluent in English to wr…
I always find it hard to take things seriously when they are written in poor english. "Will coming soon" makes me worry about the quality of the rest of the project, maybe more than I should.
Next time you translate your website to Chinese let us know how it goes. Personally I appreciate that they have made the site accessible to me as an English speaker and am fine reading around any grammatical shortcomings.
When I was taking Chinese classes in university, people would sometimes poke fun at the eccentric or badly accented English. I would as them how their Chinese sounds to their native-speaking instructors.
It is strange how the reaction to that was always one of confusion or dismissal.
http://www.linuxx.eu/2014/08/banana-pi-raspberry-pi-upgraded...
Website is totally obnoxious on a mobile device - no pinch zoom, no scrolling, must press little dots to "scroll".
"Designers" trying to show off and that dont understand anything about basic usability. To the "designers" : Next time do a simple web page without stupid scrolling hacks,for god sake.I'm sick of it ,really. Dont mess up with basic usability just because it looks good on your Macintosh.I guess you didnt even bother testing on mobile. Sorry for that rant,but we are in 2014,and I cant take more of that stuff.