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Onswipe Wants To Make Slate, Forbes And More Feel Like A Native Tablet App

22 points by jasonlbaptiste 15y ago

dools 15y ago
Crunched! Great going Jason. I'm looking forward to the launch so I can play around with adding Decal as a content source via our API!
- jasonlbaptiste 15y ago
  Thanks!!
msy 15y ago
Given the UX carwreck onSwipe's ipad theme on wordpress.com is I hope for Forbes' sake things have got better. Page turning effects and other CSS3 transition icing are cute and all the the combination of slow, juddery scrolling and moving and the complete lack of feedback (click on something, wait, wonder if it's broken, slowly watch content judder up the page, wait patiently to be able to actually read it....) renders sites I usually enjoy unreadable.
- jasonlbaptiste 15y ago
  Completely different framework and way more fluid. That experience will be ported to Wordpress soon too.
- dools 15y ago
  Really? UX carwreck? I have always been kind of pleasantly surprised when I load a wordpress blog on the iPad. Maybe could do with improvement but carwreck is quite strong language ...
olivercameron 15y ago
I've never understood the appeal of Onswipe or iPad themes. The iPad has a gorgeous large screen and a browser that is fully featured and capable (minus Flash), so why do websites resort to dumbing down pages for it? The iPhone, I can see a market for, but not the iPad or similar form factored devices. Why can't websites be websites and apps be apps?
- morganpyne 15y ago
  I agree with you in principle. It seems the majority of attempts at making an ipad theme take from the experience I have on my ipad rather than add to it. However, there are certain things that a site needs to do (differently) to function on an iOS device or indeed any touch-screen device. Primary among these is to remove any notion of or dependency on a hover-state from the UI since this is meaningless on a touch device. Many sites are unusable because of this. There are other minor niggles also such as styling 'pressed' button elements (which never return to their unpressed state) If iOS 'themes' for sites focused on simple usability issues like that instead of trying to do the whole custom iOS 'experience' they would be far more usable.

dools 15y ago

Crunched! Great going Jason. I'm looking forward to the launch so I can play around with adding Decal as a content source via our API!

jasonlbaptiste 15y ago
Thanks!!

msy 15y ago

Given the UX carwreck onSwipe's ipad theme on wordpress.com is I hope for Forbes' sake things have got better. Page turning effects and other CSS3 transition icing are cute and all the the combination of slow, juddery scrolling and moving and the complete lack of feedback (click on something, wait, wonder if it's broken, slowly watch content judder up the page, wait patiently to be able to actually read it....) renders sites I usually enjoy unreadable.

jasonlbaptiste 15y ago
Completely different framework and way more fluid. That experience will be ported to Wordpress soon too.
dools 15y ago
Really? UX carwreck? I have always been kind of pleasantly surprised when I load a wordpress blog on the iPad. Maybe could do with improvement but carwreck is quite strong language ...

olivercameron 15y ago

I've never understood the appeal of Onswipe or iPad themes. The iPad has a gorgeous large screen and a browser that is fully featured and capable (minus Flash), so why do websites resort to dumbing down pages for it? The iPhone, I can see a market for, but not the iPad or similar form factored devices. Why can't websites be websites and apps be apps?

morganpyne 15y ago
I agree with you in principle. It seems the majority of attempts at making an ipad theme take from the experience I have on my ipad rather than add to it. However, there are certain things that a site needs to do (differently) to function on an iOS device or indeed any touch-screen device. Primary among these is to remove any notion of or dependency on a hover-state from the UI since this is meaningless on a touch device. Many sites are unusable because of this. There are other minor niggles also such as styling 'pressed' button elements (which never return to their unpressed state) If iOS 'themes' for sites focused on simple usability issues like that instead of trying to do the whole custom iOS 'experience' they would be far more usable.