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My webapp: pik
- nanexcool 16y agoUsing Chrome 5.0.342.9 beta on Ubuntu 10.04. Got a popup saying "The latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, or Safari are recommended for using pik."
- mgj 16y agoI will add that to my whitelist. You should be able to close the warning and continue. I'm whitelisting OS/Browser combos, and I haven't added linux yet.
- veemjeem 16y agoI'm using Chromium 4.0.299.0 (36335) on my Mac and I get that popup too. According to jeresig, author of jQuery, one should not perform browser detection, instead you should use feature detection. Browser agent is not going to give you an accurate picture of what is supported because every browser likes to say they are mozilla/webkit/netscape/etc.
- ElbertF 16y agoAlso add Namoroka and Minefield, test versions of Firefox. Instead of whitelisting, can't you run some test code client-side and only prompt when you're sure the browser doesn't support it?
- dimarco 16y agoUsing Firefox 3.5.7 on Ubuntu (Karmic) and got the same popup.
- feb 16y agoWith Firefox (Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100402 Namoroka/3.6.3), I also got this warning. Detecting the browser instead of the features is often bad practice: http://www.jibbering.com/faq/faq_notes/not_browser_detect.html http://www.jibbering.com/faq/faq_notes/not_browser_detect.ht...
- mixmax 16y agoYou'll have problems in Denmark - pik means dick. I must admit that I found the heading "Do more on the web with pik." rather amusing.
- Luyt 16y agoSame in The Netherlands. 'Pik' is slang for penis.
- BoppreH 16y agoDenmark and Netherlands using the same slang is easy to understand. But it's quite strange that in Brazil it means the exactly same thing.
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- mgj 16y agoHaha, unfortunately I didn't know that. Reminds me of how I looked up "Bing" in a chinese dictionary and found that it means "disease."
- Qz 16y agoAlso doesn't help that the screenshot on the page includes the words "Reverse Cowgirl"...
- veemjeem 16y agomaybe he could pivot the site as a porn site.
- snprbob86 16y agoChrome 5.0.375.17 dev on OSX: I am unable to drag the button.
- kept 16y agoIt would be nice if you had a way to demo it without putting it on the bookmarks bar. Maybe already running on your site, or launchable from the installation button (instead of telling me to install it).
- hroman 16y agoI'm using Chromium 5.0.386.0 and it's not supported by your app. Is this right?
- mgj 16y agoTry closing the notification and using it anyways. I'm whitelisting browsers that work and I haven't gotten around to all of them.
- arpitnext 16y agoIs it a clone of Quix? Right?? http://quixapp.com/ http://quixapp.com/
- mgj 16y agoIt looks like a competitor. Pik has a UI that's in the browser window rather than a pop-up prompt, which allows you to search for commands. Pik also shows you what commands are popular on a given site/page, which makes it easier to discover commands.
- mgj 16y agoMost of this feedback is technical; can someone comment on whether they would use this or some future iteration of this project?
- philh 16y agoI just installed it. I don't know how much I will use it, but it's definitely something I would use, if that makes sense. Readability, bugmenot and google cache are all things that I've never bothered to make easy before.
- ElbertF 16y agoDefinitely not if I have to click it every time I want to use it. I think this would be better suited as a browser plug-in.
- postfuturist 16y agoVery nice, gave me collapsible threads on HN. Works fine on Chrome 5.0.342.9 beta Ubuntu 10.04 AMD64.
- petervandijck 16y agoNice. Making the commands visible without clicking the button (but more subtle/better designed) would be nice, else I'll just forget the button is there. Good stuff. And yes, pik means dick in Belgium too.