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Website is totally obnoxious on a mobile device - no pinch zoom, no scrolling, must press little dots to "scroll".

by coin 12y ago

Apofis 12y ago
Wow, thanks, I didn't even realize there was more than one page because there was no scroll bar.
dangerlibrary 12y ago
It's just as obnoxious to try scroll through on desktop.
- kazinator 12y ago
  Any electronics-related web page that uses "shield" other than as meaning "RF emission/reception blocking element" is automatically obnoxious, mobile or not.
  - patja 12y ago
    it is a very common and well known term in the Arduino world, and the physical appearance of the device with all of the header pins would immediately suggest shield applications to anyone who has spent time with Arduino
    - mhb 12y ago
      Why is 'shield' more appealing than 'daughterboard' anyway? Gender neutrality?
      - kaoD 12y ago
        Linguistic economy.
        kazinator 12y ago
        "Card" is two characters less than "shield", and has a long history in computing denoting a circuit board that is plugged into another circuit board. (Whereas "daughter" is usually not redundant in "daughterboard", it can almost always be dropped from "daughtercard".) Examples: network card; disk controller card; video card; SD card. "Shield" is such an entrenched term in electronics, from long before computing, that it's completely stupid to try give it another meaning. It's also not from some specialized sub-domain whose rare terminology can be reused; shielding is employed in all kinds of devices.
        mhb 12y ago
        Maybe not if you take into account all the people who will need an explanation of why this item is called a 'shield'.
- AJ007 12y ago
  Opened the web site, tried to scroll on my touchscreen, couldn't and immediately closed it. Then I read these comments and went back. A lot of really bad ideas are being used on web sites now to make them look sophisticated. Ironic considering all of the simple to use tools developers now have to measure conversion rates and user engagement.
aikah 12y ago
"Designers" trying to show off and that dont understand anything about basic usability. To the "designers" : Next time do a simple web page without stupid scrolling hacks,for god sake.I'm sick of it ,really. Dont mess up with basic usability just because it looks good on your Macintosh.I guess you didnt even bother testing on mobile. Sorry for that rant,but we are in 2014,and I cant take more of that stuff.
- mthoms 12y ago
  Nope, can confirm it sucks on mac desktops too. At least with an Apple magic mouse.
  - sslayer 12y ago
    I bet it looks brilliant in Lynx
    - sgt 12y ago
      A couple of years ago, your comment (as well as mine) would have been downvoted. Now - only my comment will be downvoted. What's HN going to be in another couple of years?
geerlingguy 12y ago
On desktop, if I scroll, I get jumped to a random part of the screen (Chrome), so it's not just you. I found that if I barely scroll (just a little tap in a direction on the mouse), it might go the same direction I'm scrolling. Otherwise, it goes to a random part of the page.
api 12y ago
Website is also obnoxious on a desktop device.
J_Darnley 12y ago
Even worse on a desktop. No scroll bars, no scrolling at all. That looks like it is because the idiot designer put "overflow: hidden" everywhere.
Noel_lo 12y ago
Sorry for the bad webpage design, we will change it but may take a while, actually there's no web front-end person in our small team, all the site was done by our-self while coding Linux or pcb lay-out.

Website is totally obnoxious on a mobile device - no pinch zoom, no scrolling, must press little dots to "scroll".

by coin 12y ago

Website is totally obnoxious on a mobile device - no pinch zoom, no scrolling, must press little dots to "scroll".

Apofis 12y ago

Wow, thanks, I didn't even realize there was more than one page because there was no scroll bar.

dangerlibrary 12y ago

It's just as obnoxious to try scroll through on desktop.

kazinator 12y ago
Any electronics-related web page that uses "shield" other than as meaning "RF emission/reception blocking element" is automatically obnoxious, mobile or not.
- patja 12y ago
  it is a very common and well known term in the Arduino world, and the physical appearance of the device with all of the header pins would immediately suggest shield applications to anyone who has spent time with Arduino
  - mhb 12y ago
    Why is 'shield' more appealing than 'daughterboard' anyway? Gender neutrality?
    - kaoD 12y ago
      Linguistic economy.
      - kazinator 12y ago
        "Card" is two characters less than "shield", and has a long history in computing denoting a circuit board that is plugged into another circuit board. (Whereas "daughter" is usually not redundant in "daughterboard", it can almost always be dropped from "daughtercard".) Examples: network card; disk controller card; video card; SD card. "Shield" is such an entrenched term in electronics, from long before computing, that it's completely stupid to try give it another meaning. It's also not from some specialized sub-domain whose rare terminology can be reused; shielding is employed in all kinds of devices.
      - mhb 12y ago
        Maybe not if you take into account all the people who will need an explanation of why this item is called a 'shield'.
AJ007 12y ago
Opened the web site, tried to scroll on my touchscreen, couldn't and immediately closed it. Then I read these comments and went back. A lot of really bad ideas are being used on web sites now to make them look sophisticated. Ironic considering all of the simple to use tools developers now have to measure conversion rates and user engagement.

aikah 12y ago

"Designers" trying to show off and that dont understand anything about basic usability. To the "designers" : Next time do a simple web page without stupid scrolling hacks,for god sake.I'm sick of it ,really. Dont mess up with basic usability just because it looks good on your Macintosh.I guess you didnt even bother testing on mobile. Sorry for that rant,but we are in 2014,and I cant take more of that stuff.

mthoms 12y ago
Nope, can confirm it sucks on mac desktops too. At least with an Apple magic mouse.
- sslayer 12y ago
  I bet it looks brilliant in Lynx
  - sgt 12y ago
    A couple of years ago, your comment (as well as mine) would have been downvoted. Now - only my comment will be downvoted. What's HN going to be in another couple of years?

geerlingguy 12y ago

On desktop, if I scroll, I get jumped to a random part of the screen (Chrome), so it's not just you. I found that if I barely scroll (just a little tap in a direction on the mouse), it might go the same direction I'm scrolling. Otherwise, it goes to a random part of the page.

api 12y ago

Website is also obnoxious on a desktop device.

J_Darnley 12y ago

Even worse on a desktop. No scroll bars, no scrolling at all. That looks like it is because the idiot designer put "overflow: hidden" everywhere.

Noel_lo 12y ago

Sorry for the bad webpage design, we will change it but may take a while, actually there's no web front-end person in our small team, all the site was done by our-self while coding Linux or pcb lay-out.