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Seen by Ryan on July 21 2010:

This is a cool visual metaphor on the Flipboard for iPad site. Screenshots from websites are rendered like pieces of paper in a stack under the iPad.

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5 comments so far

Scott 21 Jul 10

A tangent but curious: It would be neat to hear 37signals’ thoughts on making Draft a native app. vs. a web app. Considering one of Draft’s big features is posting to Campfire means that it directly benefits from web connectivity. Add to that David’s famous derision of offline access proponents I think that availability of web access is of less consideration in the decision to go native than folks might initially assume.

Sorry for taking such an obvious shot on the offline thing, hope it’s not troll-duncecap-able. I really think it would be interesting discussion on why ipad==native while laptop==web. Or is it just plain obvious and I’m the last to know?

joe larson 21 Jul 10

Ryan – this post is showing up with no title on the SVN page. Moreover, this post as well as your previous posts ‘[Fly on the Wall] “Your HTML hand”’ and ‘Styling for change with rules vs. exceptions’ have shown up in the RSS feed twice, with slightly different titles. Something is wrong with how your stuff gets posted… thanks

Tim 21 Jul 10

I agree and I feel that it also goes very well with Flipboard being an iPad app, since one way that Apple has described surfing the web on the iPad is that you have indeed the web right in your hands.

It also makes sense for them in the way they want to be a mid-point between paper magazine and digital content.

Robert 21 Jul 10

It’s a great metaphor. It’s been in use on Windows Mobile devices for email for quite a while, now, though. Email previews are like letters that you can flip through.

But everything is (apparently) so much cooler and innovative if it’s on the i[Phone|Pad]...