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 does a lot of work under the hood while the application is running (trading performance for speed of development), so if your phone has older hardware or a less optimized browser, Hubbub may run slowly.

If you are noticing input lag on your phone and would like a smoother testing experience, you can visit the URL in a desktop browser. The application should appear in a reduced-size area simulating a phone screen. Firefox and Chrome run Hubbub very well.

Instructions

Visit: http://www.mit.edu/~dynamic/hubbub/

As mentioned above, if your phone is having trouble running the app quickly, feel free to use a desktop browser instead.

If you're using a desktop browser, the width is already set to phone-sized with CSS. We recommend you re-size the height of your window to about the size of a phone for the full experience.

(You can download the complete source from GitHub.)

Shallow Parts

• Login and registration are not implemented
• All feed items are canned; there is currently no way to pull items from Twitter, Facebook, etc.
• The "Share" and "Save" buttons are stubs (these two actions are not directly related to the three essential tasks)
• Marking items as read has been left out (not one of the three essential tasks, and anyway, you'd quickly exhaust the list since it's canned data)
• No persistence - hitting refresh gives you a completely clean slate.