Oooops, OT (not what you thought (really) but once there were a time...)
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Ask HN: Can you share websites that are pushing the utility of browsers forward?
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#92We are building https://studio.foxglove.dev/ which is a visualization tool for robotics. Click “Explore sample data” to see a demo. Uses WebGL and some WebAssembly.
Wow - this looks great. What's the tech-stack for this? Other than WebGL - what do you use for the UI?
React + Typescript. Forgot to mention it’s open source so you can see for yourself:
Re: Ask HN: Can you share websites that are pushing the utility of browsers forward?
#93My 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…
Wow this is incredible. Can you add geostationary satellites too?
That seems out of scope for a site dedicated to visible satellite passes. Geostationary satellites are way too far away to be visible, and don't move relative to the observer.
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#94This is a nice example https://www.3dorderbook.com/
That is an awesome visualization. Hats off.
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#95https://hal9.com helps data scientists build faster web applications.
It uses WebGL and WebAssembly to process larger datasets, perform inference in the browser with TensorFlow.js, and enables running Python code with Pyodide.
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#96https://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.
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#97I feel like this isn't exactly what you're asking for, but the storytelling in: https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football feels like it opened up new my thoughts on how something could be communicated via the medium of the Internet and just made me think to some extent how woefully underutilized the browser/internet has been used as a story telling medium (at least to my limited experiences of these things)
Holy cow. That was awesome. Thank you for sharing.
Makes one think what the internet could be like in an alternate reality or something.
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#99I work at https://PaperlessPost.com which isn't trying to melt anyones face with bleeding edge tech, it is blending these new features into a product to provide utility for normal people. For us this advanced stuff comes in based on the design you choose. Most of the "Flyer" designs have layers of animation, some examples that would use custom encoders and decoders implemented with WebWorkers, WebGL, WebAssembly along with some use of WebCodecs which is only available in Chrome now.
https://paperlesspost.com/flyer/grill-time
https://paperlesspost.com/flyer/roll-the-dice.
But other designs without animation would use 2d canvas in the editor and static images when they are sent out. In my mind the most advances stuff you will find out there is really about the "engines" that have been made in JS that might use some of these new APIs but without a sizable abstraction layer on top of them are likely not much more than a tech demo. Something like Google Maps or any of the web audio or graphics editors usually has way more "engine" type code with very carefully thought out performance considerations within it and the code that actually calls these APIs is often wrapped up and abstracted away as much as possible so that these APIs are called as little as possible.
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#100This is a nice example https://www.3dorderbook.com/
Thanks for sharing it! I made this a few weeks ago as part of a blog article and was really impressed how easy three.js was to use. Overall much easier to get into than using C++ and OpenGL where the window setup required several hours to set up back in the day.