Show HN: Swipe-to-delete goodness for the mobile web

[akane]

https://github.com/ankane/swipeout

[sethbannon]

Super cool. Small issue: if you swipe one entry, then immediately swipe another, it only cancels the first swipe. You have to swipe a second time to bring up the delete option. Seems like it should both cancel the first swipe and bring up the delete option at once.

[akane → sethbannon]

Right now, it's implemented just like the iOS mail app. Your suggestion sounds more intuitive though. I'm curious to hear if others feel the same way.

[jsloat → akane]

That was my initial reaction as well. Cool project!

[hayksaakian]

I'd hesitate on implementing this. What kind of discoverability does this have? Do er simple assume all our users have been trained in this technique by others?

[akane → hayksaakian]

Yes, this assumes users are aware of the swipe-to-delete paradigm. I would still recommend adding a delete option in a more obvious place for each item.

[nsp]

This is fantastic - feels native (iPhone 5, iOS 6.1). Semi related: does anyone know of a good js library for displaying side navigation(a la face books app) or detecting swipes from the edge of the screen?

[akane → nsp]

Glad you like it :) You should be able to accomplish edge swipe detection with Hammer.js http://eightmedia.github.com/hammer.js/

[ferongr]

Webkit only :(

Misses CSS rules and a transform (AFAICT) for Gecko, Presto (RIP) and Trident.

[akane → ferongr]

My bad, updated it to include other browsers.

[ferongr → akane]

Tested on Firefox for Android Nightly and it seems to work great.

[CrazedGeek]

Feels great on Chrome on Android. My only nitpick might be that the delete button is really close to the edge of the screen; a larger margin would be nice, I think.

[akane → CrazedGeek]

Thanks, I'll play around with that.