I use this on a daily basis on my iPad. The best part is that it loads articles within the same tab. That doesn't often work for many stuff (chrome experiments, for eg), but for most purposes, it saves me the hassle of shifting tabs and hunting for content.
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 ?
This is by far the best performing web app I've ever used, nothing comes remotely close - it really and truly is amazing. Huge congrats to the creator of this.
Very cool and very fast. One small request is that (on the iPhone) the app's window sizes to the viewport and so you can't scroll the address bar up out of view. On < iPhone5 this means that with both the app's nav bar and the browser's nav bar in play there's very little real estate left.
However... having added it as a desktop icon it's phenomenal (no browser chrome). Very impressed. Would be great if it told you at the start that this was the outcome from adding it :)
Great work! I recommend adding a manifest.webapp file so that Firefox users (and Firefox OS users) can add this as an "app". The manifest file is minimal, and then just a few lines of JavaScript will give you an "install" button. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Apps/Manifest
I take no credit for this. I found the link for this in another Hacker News thread [1] and thought that more people should know about it, so I submitted it.
Personally I won't be very excited before I see an app that's open source. I don't understand why somebody wouldn't share the code for such a simple thing.
> Personally I won't be very excited before I see an app that's open source. I don't understand why somebody wouldn't share the code for such a simple thing.
As for iOS, it doesn't matter whether you get the source code because you have no way to make sure that what you see is what you get (from the App store).
I've been using this for a while. Great execution all around. The only gripe I have is not being able to collapse an entire thread of comments. Right now you can collapse individual comments but it's not that useful for long threads.
This is a great example where a mobile web app can really shine. Throw this thing into phonegap and you wouldn't be able to distinguish it from a native app. So awesome.
Comments are collapsed due to you have visited comments before. Next time when you visit (i think after 5 minutes), it will only display new comments. Old comments will be collapsed.
I couldn't figure out best way to collapse threads and collapse comments.
Awesome job on this! My only complaint is there's a bit too much padding in the list to make browsing articles practical on an iPhone5 . The text size option helps a little bit with this, but really if you reduced the padding that would give it just the right balance between readability and practicality. Right now it is pretty, but presents too much of a pain to try to see an entire front page's worth of results.
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[1]: https://github.com/swerage/hntab
However... having added it as a desktop icon it's phenomenal (no browser chrome). Very impressed. Would be great if it told you at the start that this was the outcome from adding it :)
Also, please consider adding this to the Chrome Web Store so I can install it on my Chromebook. :)
https://developers.google.com/chrome/apps/docs/developers_gu...
Let me know if you can install on your chromebook.
Nicely done :).
One small nitpick: On Ask HN page you can open the threads only if you click on the comment link. Clicking on thread names doesn't work.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6177361
See also http://ihackernews.com/ or http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/ or (broken ssl cert) https://msean5423.news.ycombinator.com.moovapp.com/, and now http://hn.premii.com/. I was looking into writing one myself.
Personally I won't be very excited before I see an app that's open source. I don't understand why somebody wouldn't share the code for such a simple thing.
https://github.com/cheeaun/hackerweb
As for iOS, it doesn't matter whether you get the source code because you have no way to make sure that what you see is what you get (from the App store).
This is a great example where a mobile web app can really shine. Throw this thing into phonegap and you wouldn't be able to distinguish it from a native app. So awesome.
I couldn't figure out best way to collapse threads and collapse comments.
many thks
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many thks
Maybe once it loads I will change my mind.