Re:Show HN: A different interface for reading Hacker News
by moeffju on Monday February 21, 2011 @08:15AM
(#2245279)
This is something I hacked up in about two hours using the iHackerNews API, serve, haml, and jQuery. It was inspired by the view many apps use on tablets in widescreen mode - list of items on the left, expanded content on the right.
The UI is not polished at all, but I wanted to get this out to get feedback.
On my TODO list for Pyxis:
- Better UI
- Load more pages (currently only the first page of the frontpage is loaded)
- Use the history API to make the UI state shareable.
Re:Show HN: A different interface for reading Hacker News
by moeffju on Monday February 21, 2011 @10:15AM
(#2245659)
Interesting, I didn't know about that. I prefer the link/comments toggle instead of the side-by-side view because I like content panes to be as big as possible, but hnvue is very useful anyway.
Re:Show HN: A different interface for reading Hacker News
by bkhl on Monday February 21, 2011 @01:16PM
(#2246460)
Pretty cool. Why not have another column for comments instead of making users to click? Maybe put this as an option for users to select, because I'm sure there are a lot of people who are using widescreen monitors and are not fully utilizing it. I'm suggesting this as an option, because there are other batch of people who uses vertical mode.
(I'm using Firefox 3.6.13.)
I pushed a fixed version, can you try again in a few minutes (when the github page is regenerated)?
The UI is not polished at all, but I wanted to get this out to get feedback.
On my TODO list for Pyxis: - Better UI - Load more pages (currently only the first page of the frontpage is loaded) - Use the history API to make the UI state shareable.
The source is on https://github.com/moeffju/pyxis, so feel free to fork it and improve on it.
1) Make the 'x comments' part a separate link that opens the comments tab.
2) try and put the domain linked to somewhere
Otherwise, I like this interface
http://hackskimmer.heroku.com
it uses viewtext to make things 'readable', which unfortunately seems to be choking right now
I wanted to put something together to let me get through hackernews quickly when i didn't want to get caught up in the comments.