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Re:Show HN: Wick – A free and open-source creation suite by salzig on Friday December 23, 2016 @10:33AM (#13245179)
Closed in rage mode on mobile.

Zoom disabled? Rly?

Re:Show HN: Wick – A free and open-source creation suite by hugs on Friday December 23, 2016 @10:44AM (#13245243)
It looks like it wasn't tested on (or designed for?) mobile. Works great on desktop Chrome, though.
Re:Show HN: Wick – A free and open-source creation suite by salzig on Friday December 23, 2016 @10:59AM (#13245341)
There is a difference in "not optimized for" and actively killing it with "user-scalable=no".
Re:Show HN: Wick – A free and open-source creation suite by hugs on Friday December 23, 2016 @11:22AM (#13245505)
Agree. This project will be 100x more useful/popular if it also works well on mobile. But this is a Show HN. Pointing out a frustrating UX bug is fine. However, it's a new project. Bugs would be expected at this point. Going into rage mode isn't helpful.
Re:Show HN: Wick – A free and open-source creation suite by salzig on Friday December 23, 2016 @01:57PM (#13246524)
You're right. Was a bit rude, but reflected my feel in that moment. It's very frustrating when developers kill mobile experience by copy&pasting html boilerplate without even reading the stuff they paste.
Re:Show HN: Wick – A free and open-source creation suite by lukaszkups on Friday December 23, 2016 @11:28AM (#13245547)
who would like to develop a game on mobile device anyway? ^^
Re:Show HN: Wick – A free and open-source creation suite by hugs on Friday December 23, 2016 @11:52AM (#13245691)
Not 100% sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but there are two legit use cases:

1) Design on desktop, but publish for playing on mobile phones/tablets.

2) Design on iPad/tablet with connected keyboard. Play on tablet/phone with or without keyboard. (A phone would probably be too small for the Wick editor, but I can see it being useable on a larger touchscreen.)

Re:Show HN: Wick – A free and open-source creation suite by evilDagmar on Friday December 23, 2016 @12:19PM (#13245869)
To put this in clearer terms, there's a huge difference between building a model ship on your desk, and building a model ship in a bottle on your desk.

Putting a well-instrumented usable UI together is hard enough without scope creep including doing a UI that's also useable on a phone.

Re:Show HN: Wick – A free and open-source creation suite by hugs on Friday December 23, 2016 @01:05PM (#13246193)
I agree that editing on a small screen-sized phone would be silly. But targeting phones for playback of Wick-created content would be a worthy goal. Also a worthy goal would be making the editor work on tablets if the screen was big enough (iPad, iPad Pro, etc.).
Re:Show HN: Wick – A free and open-source creation suite by azamat-bagatov on Friday December 23, 2016 @10:42AM (#13245233)
Sorry 'bout that, the mobile website is currently a lil borked
Re:Show HN: Wick – A free and open-source creation suite by salzig on Friday December 23, 2016 @02:04PM (#13246576)
sorry for the rude comment. It's hurting me when someone seems to have copy&paste code without reading it, and is killing mobile experience by that.

To make it more helpful: Would be nice if you could remove "user-scalable=no" from the <meta name="viewport" ...> value, maybe also the minimum and maximum scale. It's not very helpful to limit the user in it's ability to zoom the page on mobile. Some people don't get the overview they needed, others are unable to read the site because they can't zoom in.

So it helps a lot to just remove that limitation.

Re:Show HN: Wick – A free and open-source creation suite by hugs on Friday December 23, 2016 @04:09PM (#13247243)
Thanks. That's way more helpful and actionable. I submitted a pull request and now it's merged in. Which device are you using?

https://github.com/zrispo/wick/issues/311

https://github.com/zrispo/wick/commit/78ec7e4929435b2513abba...