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Show HN: A different interface for reading Hacker News
- moeffju 16y agoThis 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. The source is on https://github.com/moeffju/pyxis https://github.com/moeffju/pyxis, so feel free to fork it and improve on it.
- mooism2 16y agoDoesn't work for me --- nothing loads in either pane, nothing happens when I click on either of the links at the top. (I'm using Firefox 3.6.13.)
- zrgiu 16y agosame here, but works on Chrome. And it's even pretty nice, I like it. Maybe figure out some way to show comments side by side with the original page?
- moeffju 16y agoIf you want to see comments and link at once, http://hnvue.com/ http://hnvue.com/ was linked in this thread and does that.
- kib2 16y agoSame here: it's working with Chrome 11.0.672.2 dev , and the page allows nested frames like this: http://screencast.com/t/Tg32EOZXXA http://screencast.com/t/Tg32EOZXXA
- moeffju 16y agoIt works for me on Firefox 4 on OS X. I'll check with 3.6 as soon as I'm back home. Do you get any output in the javascript console / error console?
- moeffju 16y agoDuh, I left a console.log statement in the JS and never notice because Chrome supports it out of the box, and my Firefox has Firebug installed. I pushed a fixed version, can you try again in a few minutes (when the github page is regenerated)?
- mooism2 16y agoYes, it works fine in Firefox now :-)
- petewailes 16y agohttp://searchlightdigital.com/2011-02-21_1408.png http://searchlightdigital.com/2011-02-21_1408.png it's just HN, all the way down...
- johndbritton 16y agoThe line under each link "51 points, 27 comments" should be clickable and take you directly to the HN thread.
- moeffju 16y agoThat's a great idea, I put it on my j list. I hope to have time to hack on this tonight.
- statictype 16y agoHas potential. 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
- Herald_MJ 16y agoI prefer http://www.hnvue.com http://www.hnvue.com
- moeffju 16y agoInteresting, 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.
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- thunk 16y agoBriefly amuse yourself by clicking "Show HN: A different interface for reading Hacker News" in each nested frame.
- phillco 16y agoBriefly?
- mbpr 16y agoha cool . . . pretty similar to something I crudely put together awhile back: http://hackskimmer.heroku.com 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.
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y agoDoesn't work in Firefox 1.5.0.6. Not that I expect it would - nothing whizzy does. Mind you, that's part of the reason why I use it.
- bkhl 16y agoPretty 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.