Comment by Vilkku | Hacker News Reader

Comment by Vilkku | Hacker News Reader

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Looks pretty nice. Some criticisms:

* I dislike how the website hijacks scrolling, the phone doesn't fit on a Macbook 13" screen so I tried to scroll down, but that just scrolled in the app

* When scrolling out to a view where I see many months at once it can only show a few events, in the demo it only shows Gym, and when I zoom in a bit more it also shows Hockey with kids. I feel these recurring events should have the lowest priority when zoomed out, it's more important to see "special" one-off events.

* It's not clear that there are events hidden. When zoomed out a lot it's of course expected that this is the case, but when zoomed out a bit more it might be unclear if all events for a time period are visible or not.

Hi, thanks for the feedback. Sorry for hijacking the scroll, but it just had to be done :) Your second point on recurring events is good, I will look at that. Even more so the last point, that one is really important, but I haven't found a good way to solve it yet. Thanks /Peter

You could hijack the scroll only when the mouse is over the phone's screen not the entire page. Very interesting UI!

That's already what happens for me. I can scroll the page just fine if my cursor is off the demo device.

In Firefox the scrollwheel is hijacked regardless of where the cursor is.

The downside is I can't actually scroll in the page at all on my Firefox, works ok on Chrome though

Agree re: scrolling - it would have been difficult/impossible to get across the behaviour of the app in the is regard without hijacking.

Third point, what if you show a horizontal stack of the events. Only one showing at the time, and the others being thin lines. Scrolling sideways would shift the view of the horizontal stack.

Perhaps heatmap showing number of events.

I only now went back and used the scroll bar to find the text under the phone. Could you hijack the scroll wheel only when the mouse is over the phone?

I agree with the parent on the scrolling issue, it's quite confusing and unusable to me.

I think the scroll-jacking is necessary here because of how the "app" works. I usually hate it too.

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