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cubiq.org is a personal blog at cubiq.org about programming and web. Since 2009, 39 different Hacker News readers have linked it 41 times, most often “Add to Home Screen”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (21) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN links Matteo Spinelli's cubiq.org posts on mobile web work: the iScroll touch-scrolling library, a fix for the iPhone 300ms click delay, add-to-home-screen, and HTML5 game articles.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 21 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /iscroll-46 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2011-05-20
- Add to Home Screen5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2011-10-22
- Remove OnClick delay on Webkit for iOS3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-06-08
- Build your very own PC keyboard2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-01-13
- Hexagame, the making of an HTML5 game2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-03-09
- Project Underpants explained2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-05-29
- SwipeView: simple solution to endless seamlessly loopable carousels for mobile2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-12-21
- /iscroll2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-06-20
- Building a pure CSS 3D City2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-07-12
What Hacker News says?
I never said anything about "lack of access to capabilities". Native applications, in the vast majority of cases, are just better in every way than the similar web versions. They're faster, cleaner, and more capable. If both are being offered, it makes no sense to choose the web version. My company makes an iOS-compatible web application with no plans for a native client right now. We use some JavaScript[1] to remin…
Comment linking /add-to-home-screen
on “Why apps are not the future”Submitted Open Source made me the man I am as a story · 205 points
HN discussioniScroll is the industry standard for this. I've seen it used on a lot of web apps and it works pretty well. http://cubiq.org/iscroll-4
Comment linking /iscroll-4
on “Hacker News Web App for Mobile”Submitted Building a pure CSS 3D City as a story · 78 points
HN discussionI like cubiq's solution: http://cubiq.org/remove-onclick-delay-on-webkit-for-iphone It uses event capturing so you can bind the listener to an outer div containing many buttons, rather than each button individually.
Comment linking /remove-onclick-delay-on-webkit-for-iphone
on “IOS browsers have a 300ms click delay - But developers can bypass it”Submitted Don't go native UI on your mobile web app as a story · 18 points
HN discussionI really wanted to try out the frogpad back when it was first released, but never bought one. If you handled the chording in software I imagine it wouldn't require wiring very different from what people use to make regular DIY keyboards: http://cubiq.org/build-your-very-own-pc-keyboard Given the heavy use of chording in a one handed keyboard, I'm guessing Topre keys might be a better choice than any Cherry MX variet…
Comment linking /build-your-very-own-pc-keyboard
on “How to create a handheld Linux terminal”Submitted Text-only dot matrix LCD animation as a story · 15 points
HN discussioniScroll [1] does a pretty reasonable job of rebuilding the scrolling events. [1] http://cubiq.org/iscroll
Comment linking /iscroll
on “How we make 5000 row tables fast in Streak”Submitted Cease and decist lameness against respected mobile web dev's open source project as a story · 10 points
HN discussionLink: http://cubiq.org/iscroll-4
Comment linking /iscroll-4
on “Scrollability”Submitted IScroll 5 ready for beta test as a story · 5 points
HN discussionMaybe because of this? http://cubiq.org/remove-onclick-delay-on-webkit-for-iphone I didn't actually check the project source, so I could be wrong.
Comment linking /remove-onclick-delay-on-webkit-for-iphone
on “App-UI”Submitted Device orientation augmented UI the CSS way as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI would be more concerned about the memory consumption (especially on mobile). On ios in particular I recall[1] something about jpg taking up significantly more than their file size in memory, due to decoding the image. png's don't suffer from that (an ios optimization for pngs or something), but they tend to be overall larger for big files (retina size). I would think webp.js would be even worse off than jpg in reg…
Comment linking /testing-memory-usage-on-mobile-safari
on “WebM and WebP Hand Ported to JavaScript for All Browsers”Submitted Add to Home Screen as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI wrote my first app with phonegap. I loved it at first but moved to Titanium because PhoneGap (UIWebView) is really slow. Now doing native. Can someone point out a phonegap app that isn't trivial/doesn't suck? Also, it's a lot of work to do even simple things like, say, have your search field stay at the top when you scroll. http://cubiq.org/scrolling-div-for-mobile-webkit-turns-3/16
Comment linking /scrolling-div-for-mobile-webkit-turns-3/16
on “PhoneGap AppStore Approval”Submitted Hexagame, the making of an HTML5 game as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttp://cubiq.org/project-underpants-explained - browser fingerprinting demo, they say flash being off reduces your anonymity. You can measure fonts using JS to avoid having to have flash to do font based fingerprinting, eg http://www.lalit.org/lab/javascript-css-font-detect/ . There's also the option to attempt to set the font and then get the style of the element and see if it's using the new font (works only on FF…
Comment linking /project-underpants-explained
on “Deanonymizing You: I know who you are after 1 click online or a mobile call”Submitted Build your very own PC keyboard as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI was surprised by the lack of fixed headers/footers, too. They say it's coming, but in the mean time you can use iScroll without any side-effects: http://cubiq.org/iscroll-4 And, as you say, use the 'fixed' CSS in newer Safari versions that support it.
Comment linking /iscroll-4
on “JQuery Mobile 1.0.1 Released”Submitted Building a Pure CSS 3D City as a story · 2 points
HN discussiontrue, infinite scrolling and footer do not work together, unless footer is position:fixed, which is often the case on mobile. Infinite scrolling is pretty much the norm on mobile and is increasingly popular on desktop, pinterest and twitter are examples. I have found only a couple of libraries that attempt some of the techniques used by LinkedIn team. One is [infinity.js]( http://airbnb.github.io/infinity/ ) by airb…
Comment linking /swipeview
on “Techniques for smooth infinite scrolling in HTML5”Submitted Will using iScroll for desktop webapp will break or improve usability? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe script has been superseded by iScroll 4: http://cubiq.org/iscroll-4
Comment linking /iscroll-4
on “Joe Hewitt’s First Post-Facebook Web Gift: Inertial Scrolling For All”Submitted Playing with CSS3 gradients as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI've been using iScroll ( http://cubiq.org/iscroll ) and it works quite well. Works on the desktop too unlike Scrollability.
Comment linking /iscroll
on “Joe Hewitt’s First Post-Facebook Web Gift: Inertial Scrolling For All”Submitted Remove OnClick delay on Webkit for iOS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIf you are looking for a technical article check Cubiq'a excellent series of articles on the subject. http://cubiq.org/hexagame-the-making-of-an-html5-game As a bonus you can play with the source code as it's all open source.
Comment linking /hexagame-the-making-of-an-html5-game
on “HTML5 as a gaming platform”Submitted Add to home screen as a story · 1 points
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