Brilliant!
Windows is just bearable with a Mac. Seriously, shame for the Windows crowd.
Wow, shocked. Tooling, huh?
AngularJS is way better and way native than Ember.js. There really is no need for it.
Great UI, great UX. I hate Android, but as Facebook signed ex-Apple engineers and designers, I knew something great would come. And Facebook Home is just perfect.
Most of the beauty, I confess, is due to Helvetica. I hate Roboto more than I hate Android. Especially, when they use the unaesthetic Roboto Condensed (regular width ones are fine). It’s reminiscent of old Nokia phones; the same, cheap look (coupled with pentile matrix display). Terrible, period.
Ah, good old Helvetica. The one we came to love. It looks absolutely gorgeous. Coupled with high interactivity and fluid animations and gestures, Facebook Home is a killer.
The only problem might be that the pictures your friends share are not as good as the ones in the commercials :) Think about the terribly posed, lighted and sometimes downright bad photos in full screen, in your background.
By the way, HTC First doesn’t use the cheap pentile matrix, as far as I can see. It adds to its beauty. The pentile matrix screen (along with Roboto Condensed, of course) is responsible for Samsung Galaxy family’s terrible looks, and HTC First just evades that, with a premium look.
My only problem is that it looks a lot like an old iPhone; the same curves and button placement.
My thoughts, exactly. Perfect pitch.
Very impressive!
Unbelievable. The year is 2013, and Chrome for Android “just” moves the CSS animations to their proper place. No word about the stock browser, yet.
We have made a killer HTML5 mobile app called Tuttur.com, which is available in the App Store. The biggest thing that made this possible, that closed the “native look-and-feel” gap with the native apps, was hardware accelerated CSS transforms that never falter and native-scrolling mechanism.
We use PhoneGap, and will submit the same app to Google Play, but the performance can in no way match the iPhone’s. Even some Galaxy S3 animations are worse than iPhone 3GS animations. Scrolling is terrible. I know the Android user space is accustomed to that kind of petty performance, but, hey?
How ironic? Google is a web company who is a proponent of HTML5 technologies, and Apple is a proprietary software/hardware company. Yet Apple pushed the idea of HTML web apps in 2007 to 2009 (see the related WWDC sessions), and Google never gave enough focus to its mobile web browsers. HTML5 apps will never look and feel good with Android stock browser, never in Gingerbread.
Google, you suck a lot at times.
True, word for word.
