How to build the best of breed web apps(html5rocks.com)

http://www.html5rocks.com/webappfieldguide/toc/index/

10 comments

I'm not sure I want to take advice on design from a site which thinks that flipping paper pages is a suitable metaphor for a browser. It's clever but, in my opinion, it's a poor interface.

Wasn't there a link on here recently about poor skeuomorphic interfaces?

cynwoody14 anni fa

Thanks for teaching me a new word.

My initial hurdle was figuring out how to turn the page. Clicked in a bunch of different places to no avail. Fiddled with the little dots. Finally discovered the arrow keys work. Duh!

What followed was reasonable, but hardly remarkable, advice.

However, an ordinary blog post or a PDF would have worked much better than that cute but stupid skeuomorphism.

grannyg00se14 anni fa

This is pretty bad. I tried with CSS turned off and it was still unusable. Trying to deal with this makes me want to go to craigslist for some counter style. Balance out the excessives.

tnuc14 anni fa

Oh the irony.

If only the web app about web apps was usable.

ddrager14 anni fa

Yikes - I would like to read this but I can't even save it to Instapaper for my reading time on my mobile device. Irony...

tomkr14 anni fa

I agree with the sentiment, the interface seems to be aimed at looking nice more than being usable, which would make it so much easier to use as a reference. But if you follow the check-list in the "book", it is not actually a web app itself. It's aimed at someone reading its content, not really using it as an application. So I guess they kind of found a loophole for themselves.

I do think it's really pretty though.

hengli14 anni fa

Gah, I want to read the contents of this book but the design is so terrible.

ThomPete14 anni fa

A good read with good tips and well designed (aesthtically)

Don't listen to the haters. This is good stuff with valuable content.

Natsu14 anni fa

I would have read more of it, but I got too annoyed trying to get the pages to flip properly. It doesn't help that they interfere with my mouse gestures plugin...

dm814 anni fa

Is there any open source project/jquery plugin for flipping book pages?

vkjelseth14 anni fa

Turn.js looks pretty good and was on HN about a week ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3555152

jrvarela5614 anni fa

what is this? i just see some wood panel and two circles

robomartin14 anni fa

My question would be about SEO. Don't you run the risk of making a site that looks like a single (or just a few) pages regardless of how deep your content might be?

Alind14 anni fa

Actually, regardless the design of this site, contents are good though

rufugee14 anni fa

It's about 1000% better than anything I've ever done, it's free, and the content is good. Seems like the guy is trying to help people build better web apps...that is a noble intent IMHO. Why not offer constructive criticism instead of all this negativity?