Google News for Mobile Enhanced for webOS

I like the way the new site looks, but it annoys me a little that clicking on links opens up a new card. Between the new site having more pictures and the sites you click on tending to be full web pages, memory use for Google news has gone up dramatically. Don't try to use this site with too many other cards open.

It was in English before, and now it defaulted to French.

Easy to change though. :)

The web site is nice and all, but the fact that I can access the google calendar that I back up to is nice. Im many ways its actually nicer to imput info into it than it is to imput on the Pre!??

I'm just happy another platforn besides the iPhone is looked at. Go webOS!

OK, perhaps someone could help me. The site comes up in Japanese. I found the drop-down menu to change it, but how do I lock that in? I change it to US, but that's all I can do....unless the instructions are in Japanese....lol

Thanks for your help in advance.

Mine defaults to French. They need to not use the IP address to determine country of origin or at least update their IP look up database.

Not sure I understand the purpose of using a misleading title for this article. It hasn't been enhanced for webOS; it's just been enhanced for touch-based WebKit browsers. :)

Anyway, interesting tidbit of news. I don't use that site, but maybe I will give it a shot now.

I've been waiting for the "clicking a link opens up a new card" for a while now. In the old version of the site, if you opened it up the the same card the back button wouldn't bring you back to where you were on Google news -- you'd get (essentially) a reload of the Google news page. This is much better.

Up until now I've had to open my keyboard and {ORANGE}+click on links when reading Google news.

Actually, I don't like it! I much prefer condensed headlines so I can skim over them faster. That other stuff should be shown once you click on the article. I wish this was an optional setting. Oh well.

I don't know how "optimized" it really is... clicking those damned text menu links is a beoch.

"Optimizing" for a mobile platform doesn't just mean making it render a little better and fitting nicer on a small screen (both of which do count to *some* extent of course)... it means big, honkin' tap targets and a fundamental shift in the way the data is presented. I'm not bashing Google here, MOST sites get this wrong.

Many people think it's as easy as optimizing your HTML/CSS/JS and shrinking stuff. That's only a small part of the equation at best and it's more difficult to get right than that implies by a mile.

You guys should try NewsRoom for $5 in the Catalog. I never thought I'd pay $5 for a cellphone app, but after the reviews... I thought a decent RSS reader might be worth $5.

I think it still has a bit of room for improvement, but it definitely does show the true potential of webOS. I hope all webOS apps look like NewsRoom in the future.

I use Google Reader which pulls in the news I'm interested in. It works very well in the webOS browser too.

I'm seeing a nasty memory leak (in user space) triggered by the enhanced website. I start w/ a URL/bookmark pointed at the Sci/Tech page. Then use link to 'Frontpage.' After that, I can't open any new cards (links from the webpage, emails, new apps). I've worked through a few reset cycles and combinations of apps that I open before running through the above w/ the same results. Something with those pages just chews up space. I haven't worked it in the SDK/emulator. Anyone else seeing something similar?