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My webapp: pik

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You'll have problems in Denmark - pik means dick.

I must admit that I found the heading "Do more on the web with pik." rather amusing.

Same in The Netherlands. 'Pik' is slang for penis.

Denmark and Netherlands using the same slang is easy to understand. But it's quite strange that in Brazil it means the exactly same thing.

Also doesn't help that the screenshot on the page includes the words "Reverse Cowgirl"...

Haha, unfortunately I didn't know that. Reminds me of how I looked up "Bing" in a chinese dictionary and found that it means "disease."

maybe he could pivot the site as a porn site.

It would be nice if you had a way to demo it without putting it on the bookmarks bar. Maybe already running on your site, or launchable from the installation button (instead of telling me to install it).

Using Chrome 5.0.342.9 beta on Ubuntu 10.04. Got a popup saying "The latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, or Safari are recommended for using pik."

With Firefox (Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100402 Namoroka/3.6.3), I also got this warning.

Detecting the browser instead of the features is often bad practice: http://www.jibbering.com/faq/faq_notes/not_browser_detect.ht...

I will add that to my whitelist. You should be able to close the warning and continue.

I'm whitelisting OS/Browser combos, and I haven't added linux yet.

I'm using Chromium 4.0.299.0 (36335) on my Mac and I get that popup too.

According to jeresig, author of jQuery, one should not perform browser detection, instead you should use feature detection. Browser agent is not going to give you an accurate picture of what is supported because every browser likes to say they are mozilla/webkit/netscape/etc.

Also add Namoroka and Minefield, test versions of Firefox. Instead of whitelisting, can't you run some test code client-side and only prompt when you're sure the browser doesn't support it?

Using Firefox 3.5.7 on Ubuntu (Karmic) and got the same popup.

Nice. Making the commands visible without clicking the button (but more subtle/better designed) would be nice, else I'll just forget the button is there. Good stuff. And yes, pik means dick in Belgium too.

Most of this feedback is technical; can someone comment on whether they would use this or some future iteration of this project?

I just installed it. I don't know how much I will use it, but it's definitely something I would use, if that makes sense. Readability, bugmenot and google cache are all things that I've never bothered to make easy before.

Definitely not if I have to click it every time I want to use it. I think this would be better suited as a browser plug-in.

Very nice, gave me collapsible threads on HN.

Works fine on Chrome 5.0.342.9 beta Ubuntu 10.04 AMD64.

Is it a clone of Quix? Right?? http://quixapp.com/

It looks like a competitor. Pik has a UI that's in the browser window rather than a pop-up prompt, which allows you to search for commands. Pik also shows you what commands are popular on a given site/page, which makes it easier to discover commands.

I'm using Chromium 5.0.386.0 and it's not supported by your app. Is this right?

Try closing the notification and using it anyways. I'm whitelisting browsers that work and I haven't gotten around to all of them.

Chrome 5.0.375.17 dev on OSX: I am unable to drag the button.

Thanks, I'll look into it. It's working for me on Chrome 5.0.342.9 on OSX.

It's a chrome bug as far as I know. He'll just have to wait until the dev builds are updated to fix this problem.

Yup, definitely can't drag it.

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