Re:My HN November app: Quick Brown Frog
by kaffeinecoma on Friday November 26, 2010 @09:43PM
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Huppie, tried to contact you but I can't find your email.
Can you tell me what OS/Browser you were using? One of the major goals of the app is for it to be blazing fast, and not have any lag issues. I mainly use OSX+Safari, but I test on Firefox, Chrome and IE8, and it works quite well for me in testing.
I also agree with what you have to say about the random wikipedia links; I tried really hard to filter out as much boilerplate stuff as I can, but sadly Wikipedia isn't as structured as you might expect it to be.
Thanks very much for the feedback.
I'm sure you won't get this request very often (until you go international...), but I'm using these practices mostly for practicing my dvorak skills ;-). Would it be possible to have a setting for a keyboard layouts?
As I write this I realize that different layouts would mean a different lesson structure as well...
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Okay, here some more feedback after trying some practises in my native tongue (dutch).
- Response seems quite slow. If I type above 50wpm the text can't keep up with me (which is _very_ annoying and makes it quite hard to use).
- If you miss a letter (or space), everything else is considered 'wrong'. It might be nice if you would recognize (after two or three 'wrong' letters) that it actually misses a letter or space, and add a visual confirmation of that.
- If you give a custom url and press <enter> that doesn't work, you'll have to click the 'go' button.
- Using a random wiki article usually just sucks, most of the random articles are articles with a lot of 'sidebar' information that you'll have to type. First hit today was this one, try it ;-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buochs