Jon’s Shitlist

1. You embedded your web application in a native application, and tried to trick me into thinking that you had actually spent time on this. This is a sin.

2. You used controls which attempt to mimic those of the substrate platfom: the bullshit interaction of your iPhone-y navigation bar only served to highlight your incompetence to experienced users, and confuse inexperienced ones.

3. You made some sort of bullshit header attempt to hover at the top of your view. All the time, I see bullshit websites that have some sort of terrible navigation bar that sits at the top of the view, no matter how far down you are scrolled; but because it is bullshit, when you start dragging to scroll, the header disappears, and reappears when scrolling has stopped. This is bullshit.

4. You overused animation. Don’t do this: your app is laggy, and that is the opposite of unbad.

5. You tried to make it look like iOS. The whole point of making web applications is that your don’t have to spend resources building a separate app on each platform. If you are content to force all users, regardless of their platform, to use an app that looks like you disemboweled iOS and filled her with bullshit, then you should have just made a nice native app for iOS and ignored the other platforms.

Welcome to my shitlist.

(Source: jonmsterling.com)