How I built a Hacker News mobile web app, Part 2

Re:How I built a Hacker News mobile web app, Part 2 by phatbyte on Monday March 26, 2012 @10:59AM (#3756965)

First of all, it looks nice, so congrats, I'm sure it consumed many working hours.

But why didn't you go native ? Your controls are pretty much the OSX ones, why did you concentrate so much in the iOS CSS look-a-like interface ?

Also, you could go hybrid, mixing native controls with a webkit view for the data.

Nevertheless, good work.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:How I built a Hacker News mobile web app, Part 2 by marknutter on Monday March 26, 2012 @11:08AM (#3757012)

I believe the entire point of the effort was to see how close to native he could get a web app version of HN. Half the value of this is the deep dives he gives us in his blog post about just how far one can push HTML/CSS these days.

[ Parent | on HN ]