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It's not a container at all. We leverage a plugin that provides a JSON representation of the Wordpress site content. We consume the JSON to display the Wordpre

by gozman 15y ago

It's not a container at all. We leverage a plugin that provides a JSON representation of the Wordpress site content. We consume the JSON to display the Wordpress content within a fully native UI and give access to all the speed, features, and benefits that a fully native app has to offer over web or hybrid apps.

john-n 15y ago
Assuming this is one of the standard JSON plugins for wordpress, be cautious of what this may do to the main sites load. The default install can force calls to skip the total-caching plugin most sites use, as it wont use the cache on any request with parameters.
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jbail 15y ago
As a mobile web developer, I feel compelled to mention that iPhones make it easy to bookmark a web page and put the page icon right on your home screen. Utilizing HTML5 manifests and local storage, you could also have offline access. Creating an interface as good looking and responsive as a native one is definitely doable as well. You don't get an app in the appstore, so that's one advantage you have over an HTML5-based approach...but I would much prefer just getting an awesome mobile web app experience when I view a site in my browser, as opposed to being prompted to download the app. When I'm browsing content, I like to stay in my web browser so I can browse other sites. Switching between a bunch of native apps just to get a decent ui is a poor user experience, IMO. All in all, the product looks really well done though. I don't mean to be disparaging with this comment. I just wanted to point out that it's totally possible to do everything you mention using mobile web techniques. What I've described here might be a direction you could take your product. You could offer both native and mobile web approaches, giving the choice to the Wordpress site owner. If you do want to explore that idea, drop me a note (info in my HN profile). That's a project I'd love to work on.

by gozman 15y ago

john-n 15y ago

Assuming this is one of the standard JSON plugins for wordpress, be cautious of what this may do to the main sites load. The default install can force calls to skip the total-caching plugin most sites use, as it wont use the cache on any request with parameters.

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jbail 15y ago

As a mobile web developer, I feel compelled to mention that iPhones make it easy to bookmark a web page and put the page icon right on your home screen. Utilizing HTML5 manifests and local storage, you could also have offline access. Creating an interface as good looking and responsive as a native one is definitely doable as well. You don't get an app in the appstore, so that's one advantage you have over an HTML5-based approach...but I would much prefer just getting an awesome mobile web app experience when I view a site in my browser, as opposed to being prompted to download the app. When I'm browsing content, I like to stay in my web browser so I can browse other sites. Switching between a bunch of native apps just to get a decent ui is a poor user experience, IMO. All in all, the product looks really well done though. I don't mean to be disparaging with this comment. I just wanted to point out that it's totally possible to do everything you mention using mobile web techniques. What I've described here might be a direction you could take your product. You could offer both native and mobile web approaches, giving the choice to the Wordpress site owner. If you do want to explore that idea, drop me a note (info in my HN profile). That's a project I'd love to work on.