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Onswipe Partners With Automattic To Power iPad Traffic

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Jason is the man. He will run through walls and jump over canyons. (HN: he is also #14 on the leaders page: http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders)

Last year I met with Jason to discuss the project. When he described it to me, I immediately understood the vision and his goals and plan to get there. When he passed me the iPad with the demo, I was sold. Within 24 hours, I committed to be the first investor. I wrote a quick blurb here: http://waynechang.com/2011/01/13/proud-to-be-a-part-of-onswi... - Crazy that post was only two months ago.

Wayne, seriously thank you for the faith and being an awesome friend all these years. Everyone here would be lucky to have him as an angel.

truth. JLB + Andres are both awesome guys.

Jason, this is awesome. So very awesome. I do have two minor complaints/requests:

1. Custom fonts support. I use two imported fonts from Google Web Fonts on the normal version of my site, and it'd be nice to have them on the mobile version too.

2. Disqus support. It's a little disheartening to tap View Comments and see "Comments are closed" on every entry, especially when they're not. I'm pretty sure Disqus has a mobile view- I've gotten it when using WPtouch.

Regardless, this is basically the slickest web app interface I've seen on my iPad. (Possibly a bit slow on my iPad 1, but that might just be my server to be honest.) Congrats!

1. We have all the native iOs fonts. We're working on something cool with typekit :)

2. is it??? I think it only counts as closed IF the comment count is zero. I use disqus too as does a lot of the world+loves it.

Thank you for the kind words. Wait until you see the newer stuff. We'll be showing it off soon and it's mindblowingly fast/slick.

Great news for a very ballsy startup. They haven't been afraid of telling people how swipes are going to replace clicks in most terms. At first I was skeptical, but the move by Wordpress just confirms that they truly have something.

Sweet, finally a good wordpress theme for iPad (I know is not just a theme)

wait until you see what is coming, it's breathtaking. thank you for the kind words.

Awesome progress. Very happy to see this announcement.

Congrats.

Just fyi, it seems to be overloaded right now. Cannot load plug.onswipe.com. Kills my site in a normal browser too, not just on the iPad. Is that the expected behavior?

Hi, this was unexpected. Everything should be working ok now... thanks! :)

Glad you got it sorted out. I just get a blank white screen for my site, but it sounds like it's working fine for others. I reckon I'll try it out again in a bit once some kinks are worked out.

Any reason why visiting a site from a normal browser would still necessitate loading something from plug.onswipe.com? Can't that be excluded, and only loaded when visiting on an iPad?

Hi, that behavior doesn't seem related to the plugin. Would you like to share your link anyhow?

I don't own any Apple devices to test this but I am curious if they are enabling WYSIWYG post composing on iphone/ipad using native interface somehow?

For some unknown reason Apple does not enable contentEditable (designMode) in mobile Safari for easy WYSIWYG. This is holding back the web to pre-2003 status (IE 5.5 and Firefox 2.0 had contenteditable).

we don't do that, but sounds like a good idea for the future :)

Looks great, but the default install didn't work on my blog for some reason. I'll have to look into exactly why. I'm on WP 3.1 with a WooThemes theme. (http://marcusvorwaller.com/blog)

In any case, I'm excited to use it once I get the kinks worked out, nice work.

send me an e-mail to a@onswipe.com

Congrats, Jason!

It looks great in portrait, but the big empty stripe on the right in landscape is a bit distracting - any reason why you're not using the full width of the screen?

Very wide text columns are not very pleasant to read.

relevant: http://ui.stackexchange.com/questions/3618/ideal-column-widt...

It might just be the size of your image, do you have a url I can check out?

This is very impressive, but it removes some of the unique personality of individual blogs. As a reader, is there any way to disable it systemwide?

Looks nice, but it consistently crashes Safari on my iPad 1 on every blog I tried.

Congrats Jason and Andres!

How does this plugin handle shortcodes?

Should work on the articles, do you have any that don't work?

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