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2 time in this article you claim close.io got it better that everyone else. If you really wanted this article to be interesting you would have gone in depth without the "we better than other SaaS".
Instead you posted an overview that is not interesting to anyone
If you don't have anything to give to the discussion, maybe you should not comment.
I do fully agree that buttons color really doesn't matter, which may explain OP new vs old website conversion rate, frankly it's about the same layout, without any different call to actions.
Seriously a well thought app is a well thought app, you don't need to go flat just because it will be the next 6 months crave before textures pops back again....
Does it warrant (another) blog post to tell us that our job titles means nothing? certainly not.
But when you see LinkedIn push back when they had one of the best known html5 app in the appstore, that warrants questions, specially since they are farther in the process than most teams
(they created an html5 app, iterated on it for couple of months, decided to revert back because of memory performances )
The lack of teams being open about their process or them being more in the shadow certainly does not helps, we need more success story with html5 being in the appstores. It still certainly considered a risk by management teams when you associate all your mobile efforts with html5.
Things you need to be careful is too much animations at the same time & accessing and modifying the DOM while you animate, you need to "block access", something IOS does natively it seems.
But for Android that's another story, one device it's goint to be pretty good, on another it's complete crap and you need to deactivate animations all together.
Seriously backbone is not hard to learn, fucking easy to extend, specially removing the rendering boilerplates, thats like 30 seconds of extending the view system.
You also do not address the main point, most examples are plain backbone, why is that? probably because handling your own "marionnette" is easy.
Congrats to them, they got the money without the 18 months contract...
I'm really sad these guys lost their jobs because of these remarks, I don't think the way she handled that is the way we need to move forward.
it becomes for us like an advanced, usable, faq system
First, using data attribute is too intrusive, a json object would have been much better, we just cannot add these attributes everywhere in our app.
Using a json object would also make it possible for anyone to create a UI tool for creating guides.
Also a "scenario" concept would be nice, having the ability to have multiple scenarios in a page is essential for a support team.
Last thing, the UX is fantastic, it's clean and simple :)
"Parking lots and entire floors of cubicles were nearly empty because some employees were working as little as possible and leaving early."
That's certainly not what I heard from how it worked at yahoo, I guess all those managers just don't care if the devs do not delivers there weekly items.
Not to say that Yahoo structure is not fucked up and that this step was not necessary, but the reasoning given in this article is weak
Personally i don't trust their stats, it's lower than the average for text messages, which really does not make any sense to me.
often an article will sit on top without any comments
I think that self regulate much of HN comments, and you think twice before being an asshole (if you know about that..).
Yea I designer can learn how to do dev stuff, is he going to do it efficiently in a work environment? I think not. The author talk about front-end development like it's coming increasingly easy, it's the contrary, it's more complex than it ever was.
Front-end development is not anymore about doing some css, html & creating a poorly written jquery plugins. It's a whole stack now, you got preprocessors to make css more powerful, a whole lot of tools to automate process, and js mvc to the booth & much more advanced javascript code to handle.
Is there exceptions? of course there are, some engineer are incredibly gifted designers and the other way is true, but in general? it's going to stay separate jobs.
On android that's another game and you can forget about all those cozy animations and only devices with android 4.0+ will perform well, or at all (in my case anyway).
Also I'm really not sure why people currently associate html5 apps with bad battery life, personally I did not see any noticeable differences in usage from a native one, hell native use a lot more the gpu so it should be worse.
I mean, good for him, I'm not surprise he was taken in
It really does not tell me if I can use it to do freelance contract, which is the base of the question...
We already have 3 good options for OS, We have the cool iOS, the ios copy, android, and the alternative from microsoft.
What we have here is a glorified Android that you can write apps in js, yay, 100 bucks it will never take off.
Its walking alone in the bad part of town at midnight having a student skirt with a sign that is saying rape me" type of stupid.
What can go wrong?? huh...
Seems weird to mee, but hey, anything to make money in the end I guess
What he is selling is a programming framework to do games and it is not licenced to be resold, simple as that.
If the guy would be in the US, it's clear that action would be easily enforceable. Softlayer should atleast take down the website.