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Re: Ask HN: Can you share websites that are pushing the utility of browsers forward?

#121

My site https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/ uses WebGL, Web Workers, WASM, Service Workers, Notifications API, Geolocation API, probably some other web platform features I'm forgetting. The use of workers and WASM is not obvious, but on page load it takes the current orbit parameters for every orbiting satellite that is potentially visible anywhere on Earth and calculates the future position of each satellite eve…

how about google earth

Re: Ask HN: Can you share websites that are pushing the utility of browsers forward?

#122

My site https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/ uses WebGL, Web Workers, WASM, Service Workers, Notifications API, Geolocation API, probably some other web platform features I'm forgetting. The use of workers and WASM is not obvious, but on page load it takes the current orbit parameters for every orbiting satellite that is potentially visible anywhere on Earth and calculates the future position of each satellite eve…

how about google earth

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Re: Ask HN: Can you share websites that are pushing the utility of browsers forward?

#126

My startup, Infurnia ( www.design.infurnia.com) is a web-based architecture design software written in C++ and compiled in WebAssembly. We are also using ThreeJS for rendering, but migrating to WebGL next month.

I'm curious, why are you migrating from ThreeJS to WebGL?

Re: Ask HN: Can you share websites that are pushing the utility of browsers forward?

#127

I don't understand. It's Turing complete. You can do whatever you want. A browser is an Os. Sandboxed, sure. Is this a fashion thing? Going past 5,000+ years of text? Lots of colors, making sounds, motion. What else do you want? We're not getting smell. Haptics are kinky and nobody cares.

> We're not getting smell. why not? https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181127092549.h...

haha cool!

but seriously, smell is too low of bandwidth, too easy to get wrong, too expensive, and the chemistry is too hard

Re: Ask HN: Can you share websites that are pushing the utility of browsers forward?

#128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Solved problem? Most free-tier cloud storages won't even hold a half-hour long 4k video. Uploading Gigabytes of media via p2p takes minutes nowadays, but you have to either pay or use p2p software to actually send it to another person.

If you are sharing a long video file you likely either work with video or are sharing pirated media. If you work with video then the cost of cloud storage is nothing. It’s like $2/month for hundreds of gb storage which is more than worth the price. P2P is unworkable, you have to coordinate with the receiver to send the file while cloud storage is async. You upload it and email the link and your done. Skype file trans…

1. Your assumption is wrong. I use my Q2n-4k, my friend uses his GoPro, we want to share our recordings once in a while.

2. Your assessment of P2P being "unworkable" is just mistaken (besides the obvious fact that two machines have to be online at the same time). Syncthing works great, wormhole worked fine, filepizza worked fine. I remember long time ago I simply used a magnet with a bunch of open trackers attached and it worked wonderful.

Re: Ask HN: Can you share websites that are pushing the utility of browsers forward?

#129
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We built https://cleanfeed.net/ which is an online studio for pro audio. Chances are if you enjoy radio, podcasts or movies, especially during the pandemic, that you've listened to something produced using Cleanfeed. In many cases you wouldn't even realise that co-host or guest is remote.

Just dropped zencastr, looks like you’re comparable. Kind of

What made you drop zencastr?

Re: Ask HN: Can you share websites that are pushing the utility of browsers forward?

#130

https://www.figma.com/ Is becoming the dominant design tool in the last couple companies I’ve worked for. I heard it used web assembly and canvas for a large portion of its app.

It's no longer becoming. It is the dominant design tool.

https://uxtools.co/survey-2021/#toolkit

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