I already hate LW’s attempts to “help” with rollovers and overriden click behaviors, which make it difficult to open new tabs for content on Mobile. A dedicated app IMO would be far worse than the current app, named “Chrome”.
I can imagine some benefit to some to having offline access with occasional sync, but I seriously doubt it’s worth the multi-master/merge difficulties to allow posting, voting, or tracking of read-status on offline and online/browser simultaneously.
Huh, do you have any concrete examples of this? I think almost all of our buttons that could be links, are indeed links, and if you notice anything that is a weird javascript link that takes you to a different page but you can’t open in a new tab, please let us know. I would consider that a straightforward bug, since I also hate links that I can’t open in new tabs.
problem 1: tap on a green comment count, to see new comments. comments expand, but ALSO article popover appears, obscuring half the screen, with no way to dismiss (except clicking on blank area, which may or may not exist in the view—most areas on the screen do things).
problem 2: long-press on an article. get menu that includes “open in new tab”, but ALSO article popover that obscures other article titles I may want to open tabs for, with same problems as above.
Ah, yeah. I agree that the popovers could use a lot of work on mobile. I was thinking you were referring to something else. In this case I agree with you and am reasonably annoyed at how we handle this myself.
[curmudgeon vote here]
I already hate LW’s attempts to “help” with rollovers and overriden click behaviors, which make it difficult to open new tabs for content on Mobile. A dedicated app IMO would be far worse than the current app, named “Chrome”.
I can imagine some benefit to some to having offline access with occasional sync, but I seriously doubt it’s worth the multi-master/merge difficulties to allow posting, voting, or tracking of read-status on offline and online/browser simultaneously.
Huh, do you have any concrete examples of this? I think almost all of our buttons that could be links, are indeed links, and if you notice anything that is a weird javascript link that takes you to a different page but you can’t open in a new tab, please let us know. I would consider that a straightforward bug, since I also hate links that I can’t open in new tabs.
Sure. Chrome on iOS (iPad mini), viewing https://www.lesswrong.com/allPosts .
problem 1: tap on a green comment count, to see new comments. comments expand, but ALSO article popover appears, obscuring half the screen, with no way to dismiss (except clicking on blank area, which may or may not exist in the view—most areas on the screen do things).
problem 2: long-press on an article. get menu that includes “open in new tab”, but ALSO article popover that obscures other article titles I may want to open tabs for, with same problems as above.
Ah, yeah. I agree that the popovers could use a lot of work on mobile. I was thinking you were referring to something else. In this case I agree with you and am reasonably annoyed at how we handle this myself.