This is something I hacked up in about two hours using the iHackerNews API, serve, haml, and jQuery. It was inspired by the view many apps use on tablets in widescreen mode - list of items on the left, expanded content on the right.
The UI is not polished at all, but I wanted to get this out to get feedback.
On my TODO list for Pyxis:
- Better UI
- Load more pages (currently only the first page of the frontpage is loaded)
- Use the history API to make the UI state shareable.
Interesting, I didn't know about that. I prefer the link/comments toggle instead of the side-by-side view because I like content panes to be as big as possible, but hnvue is very useful anyway.
Pretty cool. Why not have another column for comments instead of making users to click? Maybe put this as an option for users to select, because I'm sure there are a lot of people who are using widescreen monitors and are not fully utilizing it. I'm suggesting this as an option, because there are other batch of people who uses vertical mode.
(I'm using Firefox 3.6.13.)