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Re: Hacker News Web App for Mobile

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post #39

This is really great (except for the Orange!). But love the interface. Kudos. My only gripe with all HN interfaces is that none of them can login and hence are read-only. You cant really comment on anything.

You can change to a dark theme in the settings.

Re: Hacker News Web App for Mobile

#43

This is the first website I've ever added to my home screen on iOS, and I was completely unaware that by doing so, I could view the site as if it was a full screen app, not having to deal with the safari interface. I was completely unaware of that, and can now really see the utility in adding web apps to the home screen Also, this is great. Really a solid interface. EDIT: I would honestly like to see this scale on de…

It works fine as a desktop app actually. The sidebar is just one part of the app, and if you click on a post, you get the full article / comments on the right side.

Looks like no framework was used to build this (except for Zepto, I guess). Total size for JS is 55kb, for comparison Angular 1.0.7 minified is 78kb. CSS adds another 30kb, including the ico font that's base64 encoded in style.css. 115kb for the whole page on a fresh load, on subsequent loads it's only something like 4-5kb. Very nice!

Re: Hacker News Web App for Mobile

#44

hi this is awesome, thanks for sharing! I do have a problem with it on the iphone, it only shows like 2 or 3 items, then below this its blank - however you can click the blank spot and the link works.... anyone else?

I see the same thing on an iPad (iOS 5.1), where a screenful of items show but everything after the scroll is invisible... until you hit the spot where the comment link should be and a few more items become visible.

Re: Hacker News Web App for Mobile

#45

hi this is awesome, thanks for sharing! I do have a problem with it on the iphone, it only shows like 2 or 3 items, then below this its blank - however you can click the blank spot and the link works.... anyone else?

I see the same thing on an iPad (iOS 5.1), where a screenful of items show but everything after the scroll is invisible... until you hit the spot where the comment link should be and a few more items become visible.

I am on 5.1 as well (5.1.1)

Re: Hacker News Web App for Mobile

#48
post #46

How do you make the "panning" so smooth? I really want to know what was done to get this kind of smoothness and performance in a web app.

Do you mean the vertical swiping? If so, it's smooth because there's nothing special going on. It's just the page being swiped up and down, i.e. native behavior.

Re: Hacker News Web App for Mobile

#50
post #6

I use http://ihackernews.com/ on my mobile. The only issue is that sometimes comments are not displayed because the app reach the api requests limit. Any similar issue with your app ?

Speaking of their error page, they have a typo on there. "...to many requests" instead of "...too many".
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