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

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

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Post by miki123211 » Mon, Oct 07, 2019, 5:10 AM UTC

mwcampbell wrote: post #352

miki123211 wrote: post #289

repl.it's jobs page[1] is basically a bash terminal running on the web. You navigate it by using standard commands like cd and ls, and read files with cat, more or similar. This is NOT a bash emulator, this is an actual bash, running in a Docker container somewhere. repl.it lets you build an app, in almost any language, on the web, and run it. If it's a console app using stdin/stdout, they even provide you with a ter…

Have you found any practical way to use this web-based terminal with a screen reader? I haven't.

OCR works, kinda sorta. The NVDA's plugin does its job pretty well.

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

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Post by jetti » Wed, Oct 09, 2019, 1:02 PM UTC

mpfundstein wrote: post #351

jetti wrote: post #232

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My wife was actually going to do this for a website. She is a teacher and wanted a small site for her classroom so that the kids and parents could keep up to date with the goings on in the classroom and she wanted to use Google Slides for this since she has used it for work before. I was shocked and was trying to talk her out of it. At the end of the day, she decided the site wasn't necessary or worth the effort so n…

I bet if you wouldn’t have crushed her creative spirit, this side would exist now. Made with google slides. Why did you try to talk her out of it? What was the gain? Feeling superior?

She wanted to create the site the day before parent orientation. She ended up not doing the site because she figured it wasn't worth the time to make something that the parents wouldn't even visit as the parents of her students are mostly not involved in their children's education.

My main argument against using Google Slides is the URL was not going to be easy to remember when telling parents. I pointed her to things like wordpress or wix that would allow her to have a free account but also would allow her to have a URL that would be easy to communicate. She didn't want to spend any money on a domain name either.

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

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Post by collyw » Wed, Oct 09, 2019, 7:56 PM UTC

benbristow wrote: post #172

collyw wrote: post #155

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Keep the majority of the rendering server side and it isn't a problem at all. Jquery for some UI enhancement.

Then you end up having the page refresh loads of times and having a less smooth experience.

All the SPA apps I have worked on have been significantly slower than the server side rendered apps I have written myself.

Page refresh loads are rarely the problem, its usually a database issue, or just a shit load of API calls to load different menus that would be done in one call with server side rendering.

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

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Post by thirdsun » Fri, Oct 11, 2019, 11:57 AM UTC

heffer wrote: post #174

oftenwrong wrote: post #79

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I'm glad to see this site making progress and gaining attention. I remember it used to be "GNOD": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7465980 Also similar, and by another HN user: https://diskprices.com/ https://battprices.com/

These are great. I miss a page like this for Canada. In Germany, where I'm originally from, we have geizhals.de for product and price comparison that works a lot like these pages you linked and has been around for ages. They have an English version you can check out here: https://skinflint.co.uk/?cat=nb (this links directly to the Laptop section so you can check out their filtering capabilities). Here's their listing…

> In Germany, where I'm originally from, we have geizhals.de for product and price comparison that works a lot like these pages you linked and has been around for ages.

Geizhals is not only useful as a price aggregator, but also when it comes to product discovery itself - often I look for products with very specific attributes, which may be represented by different names and keys between sellers and manufacturers. Geizhals' ability to collect and aggregate them in such detail is second to none. At that point pricing information is just an extra.