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Comment by iradik | Hacker News Reader

I thought that was awesome. Discovering this on info-fueled hacker news made it more special.

I'd make several changes:

#1 Fix the F-11 message. Is this an IE thing? Do a browser detect, and display the right message.

#2 Get rid of the share on Twitter links at the end. just tacky.

#3 Get rid of the countdown. 30s break is cool, but countdown display speeds time up. Make the countdown hidden. If the user presses spacebar before 30s is up, should say "try harder" and reset the countdown.

#4 get rid of the cursing wasn't that funny

Anyways, I really liked this, especially the music and the white space.

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And what a hacker-news response that was! Like when my wife tells me her problems, and I try to fix them instead of just listening. Its an Engineer thing I guess.

It's interesting to see diversity in how people react to a little cursing.

Where do you live? I found the 'cursing' to be totally natural.

#1 Fix the F-11 message. Is this an IE thing? Do a browser detect, and display the right message.

No, it's an IE, Firefox, Chrome and Opera-thing. All browsers use F11 for fullscreen and i don't think there's an api for reading which button they use anyway. :P

Not on OS X. I'm sure I've seen a tiny js library on github that does browser sniffing and gives you the relevant keyboard shortcut. Can't find it now.

There isn't an API for that, but it's super easy to check the current browser/platform and update the text accordingly.

And you don't really need any library: http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/obj_navigator.asp

All the talk about "press space", when clicking the left mouse button (what I first did, instinctively) did the same thing, also made it feel confusing and not very polished.

I really liked #4, the juxtaposition of the relaxing site and "vulgar" cursing made me laugh out loud, and feel more relaxed.

I agree especially with #4. The cursing ripped me from my quiet place.

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