Re:Show HN: New calendar app idea
by petermolyneux on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @03:01AM
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Hi, thanks for the feedback.
Sorry for hijacking the scroll, but it just had to be done :) Your second point on recurring events is good, I will look at that. Even more so the last point, that one is really important, but I haven't found a good way to solve it yet.
Thanks /Peter
You could hijack the scroll only when the mouse is over the phone's screen not the entire page. Very interesting UI!
That's already what happens for me. I can scroll the page just fine if my cursor is off the demo device.
Re:Show HN: New calendar app idea
by georgehotelling on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @09:42AM
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In Firefox the scrollwheel is hijacked regardless of where the cursor is.
The downside is I can't actually scroll in the page at all on my Firefox, works ok on Chrome though
Re:Show HN: New calendar app idea
by josephcooney on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @03:10AM
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Agree re: scrolling - it would have been difficult/impossible to get across the behaviour of the app in the is regard without hijacking.
Third point, what if you show a horizontal stack of the events. Only one showing at the time, and the others being thin lines. Scrolling sideways would shift the view of the horizontal stack.
Perhaps heatmap showing number of events.
Re:Show HN: New calendar app idea
by TorKlingberg on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @05:19AM
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I only now went back and used the scroll bar to find the text under the phone. Could you hijack the scroll wheel only when the mouse is over the phone?
Re:Show HN: New calendar app idea
by SunShiranui on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @06:41AM
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I agree with the parent on the scrolling issue, it's quite confusing and unusable to me.
* I dislike how the website hijacks scrolling, the phone doesn't fit on a Macbook 13" screen so I tried to scroll down, but that just scrolled in the app
* When scrolling out to a view where I see many months at once it can only show a few events, in the demo it only shows Gym, and when I zoom in a bit more it also shows Hockey with kids. I feel these recurring events should have the lowest priority when zoomed out, it's more important to see "special" one-off events.
* It's not clear that there are events hidden. When zoomed out a lot it's of course expected that this is the case, but when zoomed out a bit more it might be unclear if all events for a time period are visible or not.