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Re:An opensource alternative for the TSA’s $300k line assistant by tcfunk on Monday April 04, 2016 @10:23PM (#11427366)
Make a thing responsive, people bitch about how many plugins you're using.

Make a thing vanilla, people bitch about how it doesn't work on their phone.

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Re:An opensource alternative for the TSA’s $300k line assistant by manigandham on Monday April 04, 2016 @11:20PM (#11427545)
None of that stuff is necessary to make things responsive. In fact HTML is responsive by default.
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Re:An opensource alternative for the TSA’s $300k line assistant by pori on Monday April 04, 2016 @10:33PM (#11427411)
A few lines of CSS could have done the trick. Read:

http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/

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Re:An opensource alternative for the TSA’s $300k line assistant by x5n1 on Monday April 04, 2016 @10:28PM (#11427387)
Make 300k off a website and people make a competitor to mock the value you delivered. People are stupid and you can't win. They will always try to force everyone to race to the bottom, because if they can't have it why should you?
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Re:An opensource alternative for the TSA’s $300k line assistant by bogidon on Monday April 04, 2016 @10:38PM (#11427428)
But the app only needs to work on Mobile Safari (let's say 8 or higher?). Not rocket science to make it vanilla.
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Re:An opensource alternative for the TSA’s $300k line assistant by throweway on Monday April 04, 2016 @11:03PM (#11427502)
No it needs to work in any hn readers browser. Different business requirements entirely! The business case here is to get hn traffic to that site and start a discussion.
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Re:An opensource alternative for the TSA’s $300k line assistant by calsy on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @04:22AM (#11428741)
width and floats dont need plugins.
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