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Tell HN: Hacker News Lite - Have a look
I have recently started following hacker news and the size of the fonts and layout were making it a bit hard for me to read on my little netbook. So I just wrote a few lines of code to reformat the hacker news for me.
Have a look at the 'Lite' version here http://www.skillendar.com/hackernews
Just so you know, it's a cut down version and submissions, comments etc. will still have to be done on the original hacker news website.
If you guys like it, feel free to use it for easy reading.
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y agoClickable: http://www.skillendar.com/hackernews http://www.skillendar.com/hackernews
- jrgifford 16y agoIsn't working in Google Chrome Dev channel.
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y agoOut of curiousity, why did you reply to me?
- bmelton 16y agoBecause generally, the person who makes the clickable link is the person affiliated with the project, would be my guess. I generally don't pay much attention to usernames around here (or anywhere) -- and it'd be easy to see how one might jump to the conclusion that the 'clickable' provider was the same person who posted the OP.
- jrgifford 16y agoPrecisely the conclusion that I jumped to.
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y agoActually, in my experience most of the time the clickable link is not provided by the person submitting the item in the first place. It's a cause of constant, low-level irritation to me that people submit things like this and then don't make a clickable link in the comments. I don't understand why they don't, but they don't. It's almost as if they don't care. Curious, and annoying.
- sunsai 16y agoSorry mate, I am new to Hacker News; I will remember next time :)
- sunsai 16y agoI have only tested it on IE7, IE8, FF3.6, Chrome 10.0. If you let me know the problem you are experiencing, I shall look into it.
- jrgifford 16y agoDoesn't load - it just sits there, like it's a blank HTML page with no content. It's the Ubuntu (Like that matters) Chrome 11.0.696.12 dev. - http://img.jamesg.tk/doesnt-work http://img.jamesg.tk/doesnt-work - (Screenshots of the page, and then of the source.) - Also, works fine in Firefox 4 RC.
- pclark 16y agoWhy doesn't the url change as you browse? For one thing, means you can't go back in the browser.
- Baadier 16y agoI have the same expierience loading the site on my Blackberry with a it hangiong on a blank page,the site shows when I reload it with Javascript on
- Baadier 16y agoI have the same experience loading the site on my Blackberry with a it hanging on a blank page,the site shows when I reload it with Javascript on
- sunsai 16y agoI just tested it on my BB torch and its working fine except the font style is not getting applied properly.
- sunsai 16y agoSorry guys, it's mainly to do with the security settings on your browsers. I am using JQuery/ AJAX to call the proxy on my server which is getting blocked by your OS/Browser. This is the only optimum way that I could think of to parse the Hacker news website and reformat the HTML
- sunsai 16y agoI shall post a non ajax version of this tomorrow
- sunsai 16y agoI said that I would do this tomorrow in my last post, but couldn't resist the temptation to play with the code again :) here you go http://www.skillendar.com/hackernews/noajax.aspx http://www.skillendar.com/hackernews/noajax.aspx this is the non-Ajax version.
- sunsai 16y agoHas anyone tried the new version yet?http://www.skillendar.com/hackernews/noajax.aspx http://www.skillendar.com/hackernews/noajax.aspx I have added a 2 minutes cache to speed up the browsing as well