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Spark, Lightbank And Yuri Milner Get In On OnSwipe’s $5M ‘Series Awesome’

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OnSwipe has made my iPad browsing experience significantly more infuriating since it forced itself on scores of unwitting Wordpress blogs. If your blog is hosted on wordpress.org, please test it on an iPad. If you can't do that, at least disable OnSwipe until you can.

Of its many annoying quirks, the worst is that it makes scrolling really choppy. On a tablet, this is utter UX fail. It also strips your blog of any unique design. And the link to switch to the standard site rarely works.

I am stunned that there is so much enthusiasm for a product that creates a problem while solving nothing apparent.

The initial Wordpress version is an earlier version derived from the Padpressed plugin. What were launching on June 21 is a new from the groundup framework. I bet everything this is great. One of the biggest problems is momentum scrolling. Even Joe Hewitt has been trying to solve it. We've got a solution for it and working with WP users to make it awesome.

The point is to do something new with tablet and the canvas it proxides. That's where the enthusiasm comes from.

The point is to do something new with tablet and the canvas it proxides

Do what?

Whatever designers want now that content is touch enabled, it's not predefined. At first, were building some of the early layouts to build out the touch interaction framework. Eventually what's built will be up to a community of developers. What would you build?

The best way to make a web site "touch enabled" is to stick to simple, device-agnostic markup. The inventors of the web have advocated this since day one. The iPad and iPhone owe their very existence to the device-independent web and Apple has clearly put a lot of work into tuning them for it. If it wasn't for this quality of the web, we would all be using Windows PCs running the very native apps that you call "bullshit".

OnSwipe didn't take much input from the developers and designers of the Wordpress blogs that they surprise deployed to. And I don't know what input they or I could give without predefining what you are trying to accomplish.

Hi there. I wanted to let you know that we're sorry about the problems that the Onswipe WordPress plugin has. We're working on releasing an update that addresses these issues, especially the scrolling (it sucks, we know - non-native scrolling is difficult).

If you have any other feedback or "dude, this sucks" feel free to shoot me an email at mark@onswipe.com.

Congrats, Jason! Raising two rounds in less than 6 months, and getting into Business Week[1]. I hope this helps you get over the doldrums from getting turned down by YC this past fall. :)

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[1] http://www.businessweek.com/technology/special_reports/20110...

I'm sure you have better things to do, but blog.onswipe.com is basically unusable on (my) iphone on safari. or atleast holding it horizontally, and vertically is not much better.

Yikes, I know why. I was debugging something back in March and enabled iPhone as a user agent to show iPad stuff. So yeah, not going to work.

wow! Congratulations jason and andres! Publishing apps are dead, long live to Onswipe!

Congrats, I certainly didn't think of OnSwipe as an ad network. This is a massive opportunity.

I haven't said it yet, but this deserves it: Congrats to the OnSwipe team!

Thank you man, it means a lot. Sorry when I was an asshole that one time back in the day. MIA represent!

great job with fundrasing, congrats jason! good luck with your product i will be keeping eye on it!

Awesome, congratulations!!

Congrats Jason!

thank you :)

Nice!

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