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Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs?
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#182This library allows you to compile your winform C# gui app into a set of html, js, wasm and dll files and run them in the browser: https://github.com/roozbehid/WasmWinforms
Completely blew my mind! Probably not practical but really make me wonder if anything is possible with webassembly.
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#183A classic from 1996. Olia Lialina (@GIFmodel on twitter) wanted to make a website that had the feeling of a movie, far before movies were feasible online. So she made My Boyfriend Came Back From the War. Here's a mirror: http://www.teleportacia.org/war/
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#184ZUI huh? Thanks for introducing me to that term. I didn't know there was a name for a type of interface I've created in WPF a number of times. We've always called it a "semantic zooming" interface. WPF makes this super easy, but turns out it's a little harder in the web, but we've almost matched the UX!
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#185Any examples of websites with ZUIs? Looks interesting!
https://conceptboard.com/
I use it almost every day.
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#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
Try build a complex website with complex journeys and a component architecture and you'll be begging for React. It's probably because you haven't seen the light. I'd never ever go back to using jQuery unless it was for a basic marketing site - even then I'd probably think of using Vue if anything got more complex than a carousel on the page.
Keep the majority of the rendering server side and it isn't a problem at all. Jquery for some UI enhancement.
Why would I choose server side rendering? If I build the site in vue with the most optimized output settings, append hashes to files for perfect caching, drop the files in an S3 bucket, throw a CloudFront CDN on top of it with gzip compression, and build the front end of my backend as a REST api sitting in a lambda function that serves HTTPS requests, I never have to worry about server costs being more than pennies a month unless I need to add on other services to my backend.
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#187The rotating cube interface [1], where each of six parts of a form is on a different face of a cube.
[1] https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/11229/is-this-rotatin...
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#188I once worked at Chase Manhattan Bank and one of their internal networking teams had a web site for wiring requests. They didn’t want to work too hard so their UI was designed to make data entry as slow as possible, mostly by using huge multi-level drop down lists where the slightest twitch would make them collapse and you would have to start over navigating through them, repeat a dozen times for every run of cable,…
Great story...thanks for sharing!
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#189back in 2007 I joined a company in a department where they wrote tailor made websites for clients. One of the sites was built to generate reports for ~50 customer's accounts. It was a single webpage with 50 buttons having the account name on each one of them. So you would see a bunch of different shape buttons on the page, you click a button and you would be redirected to another website. It was internally referred as Death By Buttons.
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#190Django and SQLite for the backend and jQuery for the front end. And a $5 a month server from pythonanywhere.com. Also using a splash page from glitch.com using static html.
Out of interest did you ever have any problems with multiple users using SQllite? Its the common advice that it doesn't work well for multiuser scenarios but I am curious if it is actually a problem for small scale sites.
Even 1 million page views per day is only 12 page view per second on average. Unless your website traffic is really peaky, I don't think you would get too much trouble using sqlite over real db server. And if you do have a problem, swapping db in django is really easy anyway.
Most sites I manage usually only got ~10x increased traffic during their peak hour compared to their least busy hour.