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Onswipe Partners With Automattic To Power iPad Traffic

47 points by PStamatiou 16y ago

Mystalic 16y ago
Congrats, Jason!
cesarsalazar12 16y ago
Great news for a very ballsy startup. They haven't been afraid of telling people how swipes are going to replace clicks in most terms. At first I was skeptical, but the move by Wordpress just confirms that they truly have something.
reymundolopez 16y ago
Sweet, finally a good wordpress theme for iPad (I know is not just a theme)
- jasonlbaptiste 16y ago
  wait until you see what is coming, it's breathtaking. thank you for the kind words.
ttol 16y ago
Jason is the man. He will run through walls and jump over canyons. (HN: he is also #14 on the leaders page: http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders) Last year I met with Jason to discuss the project. When he described it to me, I immediately understood the vision and his goals and plan to get there. When he passed me the iPad with the demo, I was sold. Within 24 hours, I committed to be the first investor. I wrote a quick blurb here: http://waynechang.com/2011/01/13/proud-to-be-a-part-of-onswipe/ http://waynechang.com/2011/01/13/proud-to-be-a-part-of-onswi... - Crazy that post was only two months ago.
- jasonlbaptiste 16y ago
  Wayne, seriously thank you for the faith and being an awesome friend all these years. Everyone here would be lucky to have him as an angel.
- jeffepp 16y ago
  truth. JLB + Andres are both awesome guys.
brk 16y ago
Awesome progress. Very happy to see this announcement. Congrats.
CrazedGeek 16y ago
Jason, this is awesome. So very awesome. I do have two minor complaints/requests: 1. Custom fonts support. I use two imported fonts from Google Web Fonts on the normal version of my site, and it'd be nice to have them on the mobile version too. 2. Disqus support. It's a little disheartening to tap View Comments and see "Comments are closed" on every entry, especially when they're not. I'm pretty sure Disqus has a mobile view- I've gotten it when using WPtouch. Regardless, this is basically the slickest web app interface I've seen on my iPad. (Possibly a bit slow on my iPad 1, but that might just be my server to be honest.) Congrats!
- jasonlbaptiste 16y ago
  1. We have all the native iOs fonts. We're working on something cool with typekit :) 2. is it??? I think it only counts as closed IF the comment count is zero. I use disqus too as does a lot of the world+loves it. Thank you for the kind words. Wait until you see the newer stuff. We'll be showing it off soon and it's mindblowingly fast/slick.
zzzmarcus 16y ago
Looks great, but the default install didn't work on my blog for some reason. I'll have to look into exactly why. I'm on WP 3.1 with a WooThemes theme. (http://marcusvorwaller.com/blog http://marcusvorwaller.com/blog) In any case, I'm excited to use it once I get the kinks worked out, nice work.
- andreshb 16y ago
  send me an e-mail to a@onswipe.com
boctor 16y ago
Looks nice, but it consistently crashes Safari on my iPad 1 on every blog I tried.
tnorthcutt 16y ago
Just fyi, it seems to be overloaded right now. Cannot load plug.onswipe.com. Kills my site in a normal browser too, not just on the iPad. Is that the expected behavior?
- cr1st1an 16y ago
  Hi, this was unexpected. Everything should be working ok now... thanks! :)
  - tnorthcutt 16y ago
    Glad you got it sorted out. I just get a blank white screen for my site, but it sounds like it's working fine for others. I reckon I'll try it out again in a bit once some kinks are worked out. Any reason why visiting a site from a normal browser would still necessitate loading something from plug.onswipe.com? Can't that be excluded, and only loaded when visiting on an iPad?
    - cr1st1an 16y ago
      Hi, that behavior doesn't seem related to the plugin. Would you like to share your link anyhow?
alphadog 16y ago
How does this plugin handle shortcodes?
- andreshb 16y ago
  Should work on the articles, do you have any that don't work?
ck2 16y ago
I don't own any Apple devices to test this but I am curious if they are enabling WYSIWYG post composing on iphone/ipad using native interface somehow? For some unknown reason Apple does not enable contentEditable (designMode) in mobile Safari for easy WYSIWYG. This is holding back the web to pre-2003 status (IE 5.5 and Firefox 2.0 had contenteditable).
- armandososa 16y ago
  we don't do that, but sounds like a good idea for the future :)
1tw 16y ago
It looks great in portrait, but the big empty stripe on the right in landscape is a bit distracting - any reason why you're not using the full width of the screen?
- andreshb 16y ago
  It might just be the size of your image, do you have a url I can check out?
- armandososa 16y ago
  Very wide text columns are not very pleasant to read. relevant: http://ui.stackexchange.com/questions/3618/ideal-column-width-for-paragraphs-online http://ui.stackexchange.com/questions/3618/ideal-column-widt...
andujo 16y ago
Congrats Jason and Andres!
rkudeshi 16y ago
This is very impressive, but it removes some of the unique personality of individual blogs. As a reader, is there any way to disable it systemwide?

47 points by PStamatiou 16y ago

Congrats, Jason!

Great news for a very ballsy startup. They haven't been afraid of telling people how swipes are going to replace clicks in most terms. At first I was skeptical, but the move by Wordpress just confirms that they truly have something.

reymundolopez 16y ago

Sweet, finally a good wordpress theme for iPad (I know is not just a theme)

jasonlbaptiste 16y ago
wait until you see what is coming, it's breathtaking. thank you for the kind words.

ttol 16y ago

Jason is the man. He will run through walls and jump over canyons. (HN: he is also #14 on the leaders page: http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders) Last year I met with Jason to discuss the project. When he described it to me, I immediately understood the vision and his goals and plan to get there. When he passed me the iPad with the demo, I was sold. Within 24 hours, I committed to be the first investor. I wrote a quick blurb here: http://waynechang.com/2011/01/13/proud-to-be-a-part-of-onswipe/ http://waynechang.com/2011/01/13/proud-to-be-a-part-of-onswi... - Crazy that post was only two months ago.

jasonlbaptiste 16y ago
Wayne, seriously thank you for the faith and being an awesome friend all these years. Everyone here would be lucky to have him as an angel.
jeffepp 16y ago
truth. JLB + Andres are both awesome guys.

brk 16y ago

Awesome progress. Very happy to see this announcement. Congrats.

CrazedGeek 16y ago

Jason, this is awesome. So very awesome. I do have two minor complaints/requests: 1. Custom fonts support. I use two imported fonts from Google Web Fonts on the normal version of my site, and it'd be nice to have them on the mobile version too. 2. Disqus support. It's a little disheartening to tap View Comments and see "Comments are closed" on every entry, especially when they're not. I'm pretty sure Disqus has a mobile view- I've gotten it when using WPtouch. Regardless, this is basically the slickest web app interface I've seen on my iPad. (Possibly a bit slow on my iPad 1, but that might just be my server to be honest.) Congrats!

jasonlbaptiste 16y ago
1. We have all the native iOs fonts. We're working on something cool with typekit :) 2. is it??? I think it only counts as closed IF the comment count is zero. I use disqus too as does a lot of the world+loves it. Thank you for the kind words. Wait until you see the newer stuff. We'll be showing it off soon and it's mindblowingly fast/slick.

zzzmarcus 16y ago

Looks great, but the default install didn't work on my blog for some reason. I'll have to look into exactly why. I'm on WP 3.1 with a WooThemes theme. (http://marcusvorwaller.com/blog http://marcusvorwaller.com/blog) In any case, I'm excited to use it once I get the kinks worked out, nice work.

andreshb 16y ago
send me an e-mail to a@onswipe.com

boctor 16y ago

Looks nice, but it consistently crashes Safari on my iPad 1 on every blog I tried.

tnorthcutt 16y ago

Just fyi, it seems to be overloaded right now. Cannot load plug.onswipe.com. Kills my site in a normal browser too, not just on the iPad. Is that the expected behavior?

cr1st1an 16y ago
Hi, this was unexpected. Everything should be working ok now... thanks! :)
- tnorthcutt 16y ago
  Glad you got it sorted out. I just get a blank white screen for my site, but it sounds like it's working fine for others. I reckon I'll try it out again in a bit once some kinks are worked out. Any reason why visiting a site from a normal browser would still necessitate loading something from plug.onswipe.com? Can't that be excluded, and only loaded when visiting on an iPad?
  - cr1st1an 16y ago
    Hi, that behavior doesn't seem related to the plugin. Would you like to share your link anyhow?

alphadog 16y ago

How does this plugin handle shortcodes?

andreshb 16y ago
Should work on the articles, do you have any that don't work?

ck2 16y ago

I don't own any Apple devices to test this but I am curious if they are enabling WYSIWYG post composing on iphone/ipad using native interface somehow? For some unknown reason Apple does not enable contentEditable (designMode) in mobile Safari for easy WYSIWYG. This is holding back the web to pre-2003 status (IE 5.5 and Firefox 2.0 had contenteditable).

armandososa 16y ago
we don't do that, but sounds like a good idea for the future :)

1tw 16y ago

It looks great in portrait, but the big empty stripe on the right in landscape is a bit distracting - any reason why you're not using the full width of the screen?

andreshb 16y ago
It might just be the size of your image, do you have a url I can check out?
armandososa 16y ago
Very wide text columns are not very pleasant to read. relevant: http://ui.stackexchange.com/questions/3618/ideal-column-width-for-paragraphs-online http://ui.stackexchange.com/questions/3618/ideal-column-widt...

andujo 16y ago

Congrats Jason and Andres!

rkudeshi 16y ago

This is very impressive, but it removes some of the unique personality of individual blogs. As a reader, is there any way to disable it systemwide?