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by bwsd 5320 days ago
OnSwipe is a solution looking for a problem to solve and does not bring any additional functionality to a website using it.

There are lots of creative and attractive themes out there. Unfortunately, OnSwipe replaces that creativity with a renderer that makes every page look the same (i.e. boring).

One of the biggest advantages of the iPad is its full-featured web support on a mobile platform; OnSwipe wipes out this advantage. It removes built-in iPad features (e.g. scrolling, page zoom, etc.) making reading pages awkward and unnatural. And it introduces a cheesy, unnecessary bouncing effect.

For this and other reasons I find OnSwipe to be useless and a bane to my web browsing experience.