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Platform Requirements

Our vision for Hubbub is a mobile application, compatible with all of the major smartphone lines. We implemented it using HTML5 and JavaScript, so it can run in any modern browser. Theoretically, any phone with a suitably advanced browser should be able to use Hubbub. In reality, running a browser with a JavaScript interpreter to run an application is fairly demanding, and one of our prototyping tools emits fairly demanding code, so if your phone has older hardware or a less optimized browser, Hubbub may run slowly. This is the price you pay for portability, but we expect that as phones advance over time, this issue will become less troublesome.

If you're noticing input lag, your phone is probably not completely up to the demands. If your phone has issues with the site, there's a workaround; visit the URL in a desktop browser, and the application should appear in a reduced-size area simulating a phone screen. Hubbub runs well on both Firefox and Chrome.

Instructions

Visit the URL at

Shallow Parts

  • Login and registration are not implemented
  • All feed items are pre-canned; there is currently no way to pull items from your own accounts
  • The "Share" and "Save" buttons are dummies (these two actions are not part of the three essential tasks)
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