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I have a largish open-source portfolio, including a markdown parser, a regex engine, some music synthesis, and some more researchy stuff like a font renderer and a prototype of concurrent text editing using CRDT's. I'm lucky to be working at Google where I get paid 20% time to work on this, but the motivation is definitely not money. The biggest item in my portfolio is xi-editor, and I confess I'm wrestling with some…
I built a very accurate value estimator for properties en Amsterdam for the sake of it. Then put it here amsterprice.com . It is slowly starting to pick up, but as itnis for free I am only watching hosting bucks go. Still proud of it! :)
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This could mess up a lot of modals pretty badly.
I'd be ok with all modals going away to be honest.
For example I'm working on one site now where a modal lets you sign in (which involves selecting from or searching through a long list of third parties) and if it wasn't a modal it would have to take you to a new page which would be a poor UX.
So long as they're not used for those awful "sign up for our mailing list" purposes, have been set up to work well on all browsers and viewport sizes, and are accessible, I think they can be okay.
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I'd be ok with all modals going away to be honest.
I don't like a lot of them but sometimes they're needed for the site. For example I'm working on one site now where a modal lets you sign in (which involves selecting from or searching through a long list of third parties) and if it wasn't a modal it would have to take you to a new page which would be a poor UX. So long as they're not used for those awful "sign up for our mailing list" purposes, have been set up to w…
A new page is the correct UX design choice and with HTML5 features can make the experience seamless and far less jarring than a modal that needs heaps of testing to get right across all browsers and screen forms.
But that was essentially my original point. Modals, when used by sign up to spam are annoying. When used to do anything else they're essentially trying to replicate a desktop experience that quite frankly isn't required of a website - even on "web 2.0" or full on web applications.
Also, please link an example of a modal done well across all browsers / screen sizes. I simply have never seen one in the wild that works better than an inline page element would have.
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Went looking for it, and it's showing up as mainly developed/owned by the Google org on GitHub: https://github.com/google/xi-editor Kind of feels a bit weird to be considering if/how/etc to commercialise it personally, when it would potentially be considered Google's property (?). Even though you're clearly the main author as per its commits & README.md. Then again, I have no idea how Google looks upon that kind of t…
The thoughts on commercialization are a hypothetical. As I said in my original comment, it's off the table (though I gave other reasons than being employed by Google). I'm just saying that if there were a revenue stream, then I'd be incentivized very differently (and more in line with what users need) than purely as a labor-of-love open source project. And yes, if there were a good reason to, Google could bring consi…