Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia

Post by KarlKemp » Mon, Dec 06, 2021, 6:09 PM UTC

kreeben wrote: post #32

one of the worst things about the current WP GUI is that when you hover over a hyperlinked word with the expectation that your anxious yearning for the definition of that word be fulfilled you're often forced to click through to the actual page, because the popup lacks a concise enough representation of that word, because the definition could not be contained within that small a space, or, the definition of the word…

Post by KarlKemp » Mon, Dec 06, 2021, 6:11 PM UTC

klntsky wrote: post #50

Can we have this but in a form of a userstyle, without all the features that require JS?

Post by matt123456789 » Mon, Dec 06, 2021, 6:13 PM UTC

Post by crocodiletears » Mon, Dec 06, 2021, 6:14 PM UTC

munificent wrote: post #42

crocodiletears wrote: post #18

From the screenshot: I absolutely adore the positioning of the table of contents. The design looks clean, utilitarian, and overall well executed. That being said - and this is more a critique of modern design - I absolutely hate the suffocating roundness of the element corners. It's an aesthetic that drips with overfamiliarity and a patronizing attitude. It's the visual equivalent of being put in a padded room, or ha…

That's, uh, a pretty intense reaction to some curves. There is a long history of rounded corners in graphic design. In the real world, perfectly sharp edges do not exist. Even on the printed page, ink bleed tends to gently round all corners. This is a good thing, because sharp corners interact poorly with some parts of our visual system. Sharp corners in a design can be as jarring as extremely high contrast or satura…

Post by 0des » Mon, Dec 06, 2021, 6:16 PM UTC

marginalia_nu wrote: post #62

0des wrote: post #6

OP, thanks for making this, I bet it was fun to build. That being said, I want someone to do the opposite of what this does. Less chrome, less bytes over the wire, less predictive search, less "flatness?", less timely, more timeless .

Got you, fam. https://encyclopedia.marginalia.nu/wiki-start.html (I built this mostly for myself, because I find it incredibly difficult to read text that has hyperlinks and images in the text)