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Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs?

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Re: Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs?

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Post by faizshah »

jho406 wrote: post #111

I wrote a library for React, Redux and Rails. Allowing you to build SPA without APIs. https://github.com/jho406/Breezy Breezy's insight is that frontends are wildly complex due to the industry vertical (say.. childwelfare), so instead of shaping your state for business, breezy shapes it for content. Content being a header, footer, body as opposed to a post model or user model. This means each page is represented as a…

This is actually really cool! I am definitely gonna try this this weekend, awesome work :)

How complicated would it be to do something like this for Ember, is it tightly coupled to react and redux? I might give a try at forking it.

Re: Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs?

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Post by jedimastert »

namrog84 wrote: post #7

Go spend 5 minutes here on pc desktop. http://cyberspaceandtime.com/Gaano9Y6KAU.video+related I came across this site a few weeks ago. And it's quite unlike anything I've seen. And try to inspect the site using browser inspector. It's a very different ui than I've ever seen before.

What fresh hell is this?

Re: Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs?

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Post by ilovetux »

_v7gu wrote: post #123
melvinroest wrote: post #21

This is a bit of an odd answer, even in a question that expects odd answers. That is because it sounds so normal, yet I have Googled for it and almost no one advocates for it. They do maybe advocate for it in terms of design, but I mean in making actual static websites. Enter Google Slides: the product for your uncle Joe and aunt Lysa to create their own websites without knowing how to code! I even have an example we…

Hey, I had the same idea long ago: creating a website-like functioning slide show. There was no Google Slides back then so I used Powerpoint and I had no way of putting the "website" on internet.

PowerPoint provides the ability to save as a web page [0].

[0] https://smallbusiness.chron.com/convert-powerpoint-presentat...

Re: Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs?

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Post by tiborsaas »

collyw wrote: post #141
mosselman wrote: post #10

I've heard that some people build UIs with thousands of dependencies, in JavaScript that hits the server for text that is then parsed to object that are then passed through all sorts of classes that each spit out HTML. They also do some weird stuff with events like key-ups in order to re-render input fields based on objects rather than letting the browser manage those kinds of things. Sounds pretty weird to me.

Server side rendering is very underrated.

Not really, PHP is used on 80% of the web. I know, some of it are API-s, but it's still huge. PHP is SSR by design.

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Post by htfu »

ehnto wrote: post #206

Vimium may not be a web UI itself but it layers on top of them, and I have found it to be a way more efficient and concise way to navigate the web.

The issue for me is, since it hooks into the current page, hence doesn't work if it's blank, slow loading etc, you end up reverting to basic shortcuts often enough, breaking flow. Still well worth it just for d u j k and f, though :)

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Post by pmarreck »

AndrewStephens wrote: post #195
zxcvbn4038 wrote: post #45

I once worked at Chase Manhattan Bank and one of their internal networking teams had a web site for wiring requests. They didn’t want to work too hard so their UI was designed to make data entry as slow as possible, mostly by using huge multi-level drop down lists where the slightest twitch would make them collapse and you would have to start over navigating through them, repeat a dozen times for every run of cable,…

Whole books could be written on the terribleness of Lotus Notes. For those too young to remember the 90s, LN really was as bad as everyone says, turning what should be simple (email, maybe a few custom forms) into swampy morasses of pain. When intranet webapps came along everyone breathed a huge sigh of relief.

> When intranet webapps came along everyone breathed a huge sigh of relief

Not so fast. As a web developer we still had to contend with the horror of IE5/6/7 for a few more years, and initially WITHOUT anything resembling the utility of something like JQuery!

Re: Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs?

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Post by alluro2 »

jaimex2 wrote: post #88

Back in the days of Flash the web was full of interesting and weird UIs with tons of art and animation. ie - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-2sKZjawq4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHbQmqmmIFk Now its just the same boring Bootstrap/Material design cookie cutter crap everywhere.

Ooh, 2advanced - as a high-school kid, I must have starred at versions of their "website" for more than 15h in total, in awe, and trying to soak in the pure awesomeness, hoping that it would affect how good early versions of my site will turn out :) Where "my site" was approx 200h of work over something like 15 revisions and complete redo's for a "portfolio" site with 1 design in it :D Good times - I think my parents would have preferred if I just hang out outside and did drugs at that point :D

Re: Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs?

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Post by ilovetux »

ssijak wrote: post #192

Well, not that novel tech wise, but design always cracks me up https://www.lingscars.com

Thanks, I found this site on HN a while back but have been unable to find it again when I wanted to show the ascii art in the source code to a friend. I've bookmarked it now so I won't lose it.
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