Great news for a very ballsy startup. They haven't been afraid of telling people how swipes are going to replace clicks in most terms. At first I was skeptical, but the move by Wordpress just confirms that they truly have something.
Jason is the man. He will run through walls and jump over canyons. (HN: he is also #14 on the leaders page: http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders)
Last year I met with Jason to discuss the project. When he described it to me, I immediately understood the vision and his goals and plan to get there. When he passed me the iPad with the demo, I was sold. Within 24 hours, I committed to be the first investor. I wrote a quick blurb here: http://waynechang.com/2011/01/13/proud-to-be-a-part-of-onswi... - Crazy that post was only two months ago.
Jason, this is awesome. So very awesome. I do have two minor complaints/requests:
1. Custom fonts support. I use two imported fonts from Google Web Fonts on the normal version of my site, and it'd be nice to have them on the mobile version too.
2. Disqus support. It's a little disheartening to tap View Comments and see "Comments are closed" on every entry, especially when they're not. I'm pretty sure Disqus has a mobile view- I've gotten it when using WPtouch.
Regardless, this is basically the slickest web app interface I've seen on my iPad. (Possibly a bit slow on my iPad 1, but that might just be my server to be honest.) Congrats!
Looks great, but the default install didn't work on my blog for some reason. I'll have to look into exactly why. I'm on WP 3.1 with a WooThemes theme. (http://marcusvorwaller.com/blog)
In any case, I'm excited to use it once I get the kinks worked out, nice work.
Just fyi, it seems to be overloaded right now. Cannot load plug.onswipe.com. Kills my site in a normal browser too, not just on the iPad. Is that the expected behavior?
Glad you got it sorted out. I just get a blank white screen for my site, but it sounds like it's working fine for others. I reckon I'll try it out again in a bit once some kinks are worked out.
Any reason why visiting a site from a normal browser would still necessitate loading something from plug.onswipe.com? Can't that be excluded, and only loaded when visiting on an iPad?
I don't own any Apple devices to test this but I am curious if they are enabling WYSIWYG post composing on iphone/ipad using native interface somehow?
For some unknown reason Apple does not enable contentEditable (designMode) in mobile Safari for easy WYSIWYG. This is holding back the web to pre-2003 status (IE 5.5 and Firefox 2.0 had contenteditable).
It looks great in portrait, but the big empty stripe on the right in landscape is a bit distracting - any reason why you're not using the full width of the screen?
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Congrats.
1. Custom fonts support. I use two imported fonts from Google Web Fonts on the normal version of my site, and it'd be nice to have them on the mobile version too.
2. Disqus support. It's a little disheartening to tap View Comments and see "Comments are closed" on every entry, especially when they're not. I'm pretty sure Disqus has a mobile view- I've gotten it when using WPtouch.
Regardless, this is basically the slickest web app interface I've seen on my iPad. (Possibly a bit slow on my iPad 1, but that might just be my server to be honest.) Congrats!
2. is it??? I think it only counts as closed IF the comment count is zero. I use disqus too as does a lot of the world+loves it.
Thank you for the kind words. Wait until you see the newer stuff. We'll be showing it off soon and it's mindblowingly fast/slick.
In any case, I'm excited to use it once I get the kinks worked out, nice work.
Any reason why visiting a site from a normal browser would still necessitate loading something from plug.onswipe.com? Can't that be excluded, and only loaded when visiting on an iPad?
For some unknown reason Apple does not enable contentEditable (designMode) in mobile Safari for easy WYSIWYG. This is holding back the web to pre-2003 status (IE 5.5 and Firefox 2.0 had contenteditable).
relevant: http://ui.stackexchange.com/questions/3618/ideal-column-widt...