This is excessively beautiful, both the website and the library's UI. But I have to ask: what's the rationale on dedicating such an elaborate and gorgeous website for just a library? Are you hoping to get hired for web design? Are you seeking fame and repute? Do you merely do it for the love of the game? Why, for the love of all that's good, pray tell why put all this effort into mere documentation ?
Show HN: Bonsplit – Tabs and splits for native macOS apps
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Re: Show HN: Bonsplit – Tabs and splits for native macOS apps
#12The title really should include "library"...
I clicked it thinking it was an MDI app.
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#14I don't know why, but I thought this was going to sandbox style tab/split support for the all the baselines macos apps. This is very cool, but somehow got myself disappointed that something I didn't know I wanted doesn't exist.
You're not the only one. I first assumed it was a library when I was scanning the headlines, but then when I started opening up tabs moments later I thought it added tabs and splits to existing apps. I remember something that brought tabs system-wide to Windows so it's not even too crazy of an idea.
Re: Show HN: Bonsplit – Tabs and splits for native macOS apps
#15This is very interesting, I haven’t touched macOS development for quite a while but it’s good to know that libraries are still being written for both AppKit and SwiftUI on macOS. I do feel that this library would benefit from an explanation on why this was needed. AFAIR AppKit already provides a native tabbing API where you can “just” (that “just” is doing a lot of heavy lifting) implement a few delegate methods and…
Re: Show HN: Bonsplit – Tabs and splits for native macOS apps
#16Getting drag and drop right is hard, it's so much more complex than you might think.
Re: Show HN: Bonsplit – Tabs and splits for native macOS apps
#17This is excessively beautiful, both the website and the library's UI. But I have to ask: what's the rationale on dedicating such an elaborate and gorgeous website for just a library? Are you hoping to get hired for web design? Are you seeking fame and repute? Do you merely do it for the love of the game? Why, for the love of all that's good, pray tell why put all this effort into mere documentation ?