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by tambourine_man 5362 days ago
God I hate the mobile version of extremetech.

Sorry, off topic, but this overengenering trend of reinventing everything in JavaScript is a pain.

All this trouble for making your content presentation and interaction worse and less accessible.

It would be a much better experience if you just let my perfectly capable browser simply scroll your site.
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mrsebastian 5362 days ago
Hey -- yes, the mobile version does seem to polarize readers somewhat. Some like it, some hate it (it's OnSwipe, by the way -- received a fair bit of press, when it was launched earlier this year).

If you have some specific functionality issues with it, lemme know and I'll file them as bugs. I think it just inherently has some usability issues, tho' :(

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tambourine_man 5361 days ago
Hi, Here are some bugs on my iPhone 3G:

Screen flickers between the black and white (background/foreground) while scrolling.

Since you can't scroll to an arbitrary position (you are locked into some jump stops), sometimes the block of text is just too big and you have to choose between reading the beginning or end of the paragraph (or trying to read while scrolling, peeking under your thumb).

Top-leftmost “Contents” badge covers, ironically, the content underneath it.

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