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It should at LEAST say it is targeting the browser for the tests, not someone's ssl site. I had no idea it was testing my phone until I went to the other test s

by watter 10y ago

It should at LEAST say it is targeting the browser for the tests, not someone's ssl site. I had no idea it was testing my phone until I went to the other test site link in the footer. I can't believe you go to such length defending the "UX" when it isn't even obvious what the test is for. Seriously.

gizmo 10y ago
The site has no such obligation. The site is for a very specific target audience: people who write web clients/web browsers. So the site isn't created for you, and it isn't meant for general consumption, and it doesn't have to explain anything. It's a tool for web client developers, like it says in the github README. Which is one click away. If the developers of this tool posted this as a SHOW HN, then yes, you'd have a point. But that's not what happened here.
- watter 10y ago
  Actually I am a developer and this is useful to my work so it is targeted exactly at someone like me. It would still help to have a description without going to github. Just some /constructive/ feedback...
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  - gizmo 10y ago
    Sure, it would help, in that it would have saved you a single click. If you had submitted the link to HN with a descriptive title, then there wouldn't have been any confusion here either. So you're complaining about the site not saying what it does (even though it says so right in the README) while at the same time submitting the link to HN with a title that doesn't say what the link is about. As some /constructive/ feedback, do you appreciate the irony?
    - watter 10y ago
      I didn't submit the link
- bigbugbag 10y ago
  I went to read the readme and it doesn't say anywhere that it is a tool for web client developers. Anyways this kind of info should not be hidden a click away in a github readme, it belongs in the actual web page.

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It should at LEAST say it is targeting the browser for the tests, not someone's ssl site. I had no idea it was testing my phone until I went to the other test s

by watter 10y ago

gizmo 10y ago
The site has no such obligation. The site is for a very specific target audience: people who write web clients/web browsers. So the site isn't created for you, and it isn't meant for general consumption, and it doesn't have to explain anything. It's a tool for web client developers, like it says in the github README. Which is one click away. If the developers of this tool posted this as a SHOW HN, then yes, you'd have a point. But that's not what happened here.
- watter 10y ago
  Actually I am a developer and this is useful to my work so it is targeted exactly at someone like me. It would still help to have a description without going to github. Just some /constructive/ feedback...
  - deleted 10y ago
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  - gizmo 10y ago
    Sure, it would help, in that it would have saved you a single click. If you had submitted the link to HN with a descriptive title, then there wouldn't have been any confusion here either. So you're complaining about the site not saying what it does (even though it says so right in the README) while at the same time submitting the link to HN with a title that doesn't say what the link is about. As some /constructive/ feedback, do you appreciate the irony?
    - watter 10y ago
      I didn't submit the link
- bigbugbag 10y ago
  I went to read the readme and it doesn't say anywhere that it is a tool for web client developers. Anyways this kind of info should not be hidden a click away in a github readme, it belongs in the actual web page.