I've seen a website favicon be used to show loading and other information at the top of the browser inside the tab. that was really cool. They made the emoji cycle through multiple so that the favicon was animated.
Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs?
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Re: Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs?
#32I've heard that some people build UIs with thousands of dependencies, in JavaScript that hits the server for text that is then parsed to object that are then passed through all sorts of classes that each spit out HTML. They also do some weird stuff with events like key-ups in order to re-render input fields based on objects rather than letting the browser manage those kinds of things. Sounds pretty weird to me.
Sounds weird if you phrase it in a weird way, yes. Just like communicating with strangers via on-demand electric currents is weird as well, if you phrase it like that.
I'd argue, one is simply weird because you're (or your hypothetical audience) is not used to it. The other is weird because it's mainly that way due to path dependency.
Re: Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs?
#33I would say the website which shows you and tells you what you're doing in the browser; https://clickclickclick.click/
Re: Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs?
#34I've heard that some people build UIs with thousands of dependencies, in JavaScript that hits the server for text that is then parsed to object that are then passed through all sorts of classes that each spit out HTML. They also do some weird stuff with events like key-ups in order to re-render input fields based on objects rather than letting the browser manage those kinds of things. Sounds pretty weird to me.
Sounds weird if you phrase it in a weird way, yes. Just like communicating with strangers via on-demand electric currents is weird as well, if you phrase it like that.
I can push ideas into other people mind by sending carefully created pressure waves at them
Re: Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs?
#35I've heard that some people build UIs with thousands of dependencies, in JavaScript that hits the server for text that is then parsed to object that are then passed through all sorts of classes that each spit out HTML. They also do some weird stuff with events like key-ups in order to re-render input fields based on objects rather than letting the browser manage those kinds of things. Sounds pretty weird to me.
Sounds weird if you phrase it in a weird way, yes. Just like communicating with strangers via on-demand electric currents is weird as well, if you phrase it like that.
Yep even explaining what happens to give you a dial tone on a landline is pretty crazy when you first look into it.
It surprises many people to learn that the tone isn’t “always there” and that signalling happens with the exchange to create it. This includes checking billing status and other things.
These systems are so robust we mostly take them for granted.
Re: Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs?
#36Weird? Maybe. Super simple single page responsive website, no JS, CSS + HTML only: https://isabellegrell.com/
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sounds weird if you phrase it in a weird way, yes. Just like communicating with strangers via on-demand electric currents is weird as well, if you phrase it like that.
I have been thinking about this weirdness a lot. In my book communicating via electric currents while seeming weird, isn't because of it's pure practicality. Digitizing these currents instead of transmiting an analog signal seems weird, but isn't because it allows faster, errorfree and more diverse communications etc. You can go on and follow the technical developement, but you will inevitably reach a point where peo…
> "In my book..."
As I was reading, for a second there I thought you'd actually written a book called "Communicating via electric currents seems weird". Sounds amazing! Where can I buy this book??
Re: Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs?
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sounds weird if you phrase it in a weird way, yes. Just like communicating with strangers via on-demand electric currents is weird as well, if you phrase it like that.
I have been thinking about this weirdness a lot. In my book communicating via electric currents while seeming weird, isn't because of it's pure practicality. Digitizing these currents instead of transmiting an analog signal seems weird, but isn't because it allows faster, errorfree and more diverse communications etc. You can go on and follow the technical developement, but you will inevitably reach a point where peo…
A 10X programmer or 100X programmer finds a way to remove layers of abstractions.
Re: Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs?
#39I like http://zombo.com/
You can do anything at zombocom
Re: Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs?
#40Not sure if this counts as weird or novel web UI, but I wrote a small library to stream Dear ImGui's vertex and index buffers to browsers via websockets, and just render them using WebGL's drawElements [0]. There a couple of examples linked in the README for anyone interested.