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Re:My webapp: pik by mixmax on Thursday April 29, 2010 @06:03PM (#1306228)
You'll have problems in Denmark - pik means dick.

I must admit that I found the heading "Do more on the web with pik." rather amusing.

Re:My webapp: pik by Luyt on Thursday April 29, 2010 @06:11PM (#1306255)
Same in The Netherlands. 'Pik' is slang for penis.
Re:My webapp: pik by BoppreH on Thursday April 29, 2010 @07:00PM (#1306428)
Denmark and Netherlands using the same slang is easy to understand. But it's quite strange that in Brazil it means the exactly same thing.
Re:My webapp: pik by Qz on Thursday April 29, 2010 @06:31PM (#1306327)
Also doesn't help that the screenshot on the page includes the words "Reverse Cowgirl"...
Re:My webapp: pik by mgj on Thursday April 29, 2010 @06:16PM (#1306277)
Haha, unfortunately I didn't know that. Reminds me of how I looked up "Bing" in a chinese dictionary and found that it means "disease."
Re:My webapp: pik by veemjeem on Thursday April 29, 2010 @07:37PM (#1306533)
maybe he could pivot the site as a porn site.
Re:My webapp: pik by kept on Thursday April 29, 2010 @06:23PM (#1306299)
It would be nice if you had a way to demo it without putting it on the bookmarks bar. Maybe already running on your site, or launchable from the installation button (instead of telling me to install it).
Re:My webapp: pik by nanexcool on Thursday April 29, 2010 @05:56PM (#1306205)
Using Chrome 5.0.342.9 beta on Ubuntu 10.04. Got a popup saying "The latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, or Safari are recommended for using pik."
Re:My webapp: pik by feb on Thursday April 29, 2010 @07:35PM (#1306525)
With Firefox (Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100402 Namoroka/3.6.3), I also got this warning.

Detecting the browser instead of the features is often bad practice: http://www.jibbering.com/faq/faq_notes/not_browser_detect.ht...

Re:My webapp: pik by mgj on Thursday April 29, 2010 @06:11PM (#1306260)
I will add that to my whitelist. You should be able to close the warning and continue.

I'm whitelisting OS/Browser combos, and I haven't added linux yet.

Re:My webapp: pik by veemjeem on Thursday April 29, 2010 @07:36PM (#1306527)
I'm using Chromium 4.0.299.0 (36335) on my Mac and I get that popup too.

According to jeresig, author of jQuery, one should not perform browser detection, instead you should use feature detection. Browser agent is not going to give you an accurate picture of what is supported because every browser likes to say they are mozilla/webkit/netscape/etc.

Re:My webapp: pik by ElbertF on Thursday April 29, 2010 @08:16PM (#1306643)
Also add Namoroka and Minefield, test versions of Firefox. Instead of whitelisting, can't you run some test code client-side and only prompt when you're sure the browser doesn't support it?
Re:My webapp: pik by dimarco on Thursday April 29, 2010 @06:18PM (#1306282)
Using Firefox 3.5.7 on Ubuntu (Karmic) and got the same popup.
Re:My webapp: pik by petervandijck on Thursday April 29, 2010 @08:46PM (#1306716)
Nice. Making the commands visible without clicking the button (but more subtle/better designed) would be nice, else I'll just forget the button is there. Good stuff. And yes, pik means dick in Belgium too.
Re:My webapp: pik by mgj on Thursday April 29, 2010 @06:38PM (#1306354)
Most of this feedback is technical; can someone comment on whether they would use this or some future iteration of this project?
Re:My webapp: pik by philh on Thursday April 29, 2010 @07:39PM (#1306539)
I just installed it. I don't know how much I will use it, but it's definitely something I would use, if that makes sense. Readability, bugmenot and google cache are all things that I've never bothered to make easy before.
Re:My webapp: pik by ElbertF on Thursday April 29, 2010 @08:35PM (#1306683)
Definitely not if I have to click it every time I want to use it. I think this would be better suited as a browser plug-in.
Re:My webapp: pik by postfuturist on Thursday April 29, 2010 @08:08PM (#1306624)
Very nice, gave me collapsible threads on HN.

Works fine on Chrome 5.0.342.9 beta Ubuntu 10.04 AMD64.

Re:My webapp: pik by arpitnext on Thursday April 29, 2010 @06:38PM (#1306352)
Is it a clone of Quix? Right?? http://quixapp.com/
Re:My webapp: pik by mgj on Thursday April 29, 2010 @06:43PM (#1306370)
It looks like a competitor. Pik has a UI that's in the browser window rather than a pop-up prompt, which allows you to search for commands. Pik also shows you what commands are popular on a given site/page, which makes it easier to discover commands.
Re:My webapp: pik by hroman on Thursday April 29, 2010 @06:29PM (#1306323)
I'm using Chromium 5.0.386.0 and it's not supported by your app. Is this right?
Re:My webapp: pik by mgj on Thursday April 29, 2010 @06:32PM (#1306329)
Try closing the notification and using it anyways. I'm whitelisting browsers that work and I haven't gotten around to all of them.
Re:My webapp: pik by snprbob86 on Thursday April 29, 2010 @06:22PM (#1306296)
Chrome 5.0.375.17 dev on OSX: I am unable to drag the button.
Re:My webapp: pik by mgj on Thursday April 29, 2010 @06:25PM (#1306304)
Thanks, I'll look into it. It's working for me on Chrome 5.0.342.9 on OSX.
Re:My webapp: pik by bjtitus on Thursday April 29, 2010 @06:29PM (#1306320)
It's a chrome bug as far as I know. He'll just have to wait until the dev builds are updated to fix this problem.
Re:My webapp: pik by grigory on Thursday April 29, 2010 @07:08PM (#1306446)
Yup, definitely can't drag it.