Good features with community-based origins are often integrated into software. That's the way stuff works and there isn't really anything wrong with that.
- Blake Robinson
from Alert Thingy
WP has been integrating some of the popular plugin features for a while now. I worry that WP will pass a tipping point, and the software will become unwieldy.
- Bill Sodeman
The old NYTimes mobile web site actually seems to perform better
- E. Sengo Kiruluta
I actually think that of all the old guard, the NY Times gets it (the web) better than the others. Of course, haven't used the iPhone app yet.
- Deepak Singh
Interestingly http://msnbc.msn.com was a much better mobile news site (to me) but iPhone 2.0 switched the fonts to serifed.
- Chris Messina
@Chris - Isn't a serif font better for readability? (waiting for Messina schooling on this one.)
- Chris Brogan
@Chris - on printed media serif is more readable. On screen sans serif is the way to go.
- David Petar Novakovic
from twhirl
@Edward Kiruluta (ekiruluta): I'm generally much less happy with iPhone apps than with the corresponding web-app versions: NYT, NNW, Hahlo in place of Twitteriffic.
- Bill Barol
from NoiseRiver
Serif is good for print, and I like reading longer posts in 20px Georgia, but in this case, sans-serif was better. In sum, in depends. ;)
- Chris Messina
I like NYT app because it loads for reading when I'm away from 3G or WiFi, like in the subway...
- Len Edgerly
Ok, offline reading is definitely valuable. Can't wait for deployment of Gears for Safari!
- Chris Messina
I agree. It would be better if it updated only the sections you are really interested in. Having to pull everything every time it updates makes no sense. As usual "newspapers" still try to cover too much and provide too lenghtly content for these devices.
- Christian Oliver
from twhirl