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Introducing a new HTML element – welcome <clippy>

#1

Post by edent » Thu, Jun 13, 2019, 11:12 AM UTC

Introducing a new HTML element – welcome
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Re: Introducing a new HTML element – welcome <clippy>

#2

Post by thehodge » Thu, Jun 13, 2019, 11:27 AM UTC

With some UIs on the modern web, I’d love for clippy to appear and tell me what to do

Re: Introducing a new HTML element – welcome <clippy>

#3

Post by gruez » Thu, Jun 13, 2019, 11:27 AM UTC

The element might not be controversial, but the element certainly is, as seen recent discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19866584

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Post by CodinM » Thu, Jun 13, 2019, 11:28 AM UTC

...I do not need more new age HTML tags. If doesn't by default make a toast, it's useless. If I need to style it, I'll just make a or and do my thing.

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#5

Post by bryanrasmussen » Thu, Jun 13, 2019, 11:29 AM UTC

thehodge wrote: post #2

With some UIs on the modern web, I’d love for clippy to appear and tell me what to do

It looks like you're having some trouble understanding the purposes of our many different circular icons with squiggly things inside them, would you like some help?

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Post by usermac » Thu, Jun 13, 2019, 11:30 AM UTC

I read it—hilarious. Thanks. "move fast, break things" really got me.

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Post by mschuster91 » Thu, Jun 13, 2019, 11:32 AM UTC

bryanrasmussen wrote: post #5

thehodge wrote: post #2

With some UIs on the modern web, I’d love for clippy to appear and tell me what to do

It looks like you're having some trouble understanding the purposes of our many different circular icons with squiggly things inside them, would you like some help?

No thanks but sensible alt attributes and hover labels would be a great start ;)

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Post by Terretta » Thu, Jun 13, 2019, 11:32 AM UTC

Note, this is a sarcastic opening to a serious proposal — that Google not dump elements into the WHATWG HTML spec without user discussion and use cases:

    The way Google has gone about this seems to be…
    
    1. Ooh! I have a cool idea!
    2. Other people in Google agree with me!
    3. Other Google projects could benefit from this?
    4. Let's stick it in Chrome!
    5. Oh, guess we should tell the community what we're doing.

He thinks maybe is fine (pattern of a notification container showing up and disappearing again makes sense), but concerned how it’s been introduced.

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jun 13, 2019, 11:33 AM UTC

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#10

Post by DCoder » Thu, Jun 13, 2019, 11:33 AM UTC

For another and possibly more egregious example, look at Chrome's handling [0].

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ar1qj1/x/egl52...