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SQLook – A free online SQLite database manager with a Windows 2000 interface

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Re: SQLook – A free online SQLite database manager with a Windows 2000 interface

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Post by FpUser »

IshKebab wrote: post #31
hliyan wrote: post #21

The user experience is so (paradoxically) refreshing. Back then you could fit so much useful information and controls into a single screenful; interfaces responded instantly; it was easy to figure where things are and what I'm looking at. With "modern" UIs, you can't get a big picture of what you're working on because there is so much white space and scrolling; the application is slower than your fingers; with each a…

> interfaces responded instantly I wish this nostalgic myth would die. Back in the Win 9x days we all had laughably slow spinning disks and hardly any RAM. Interfaces for simple programs like Minesweeper and Notepad were instant, sure. But anything heavy like Word, IE, Encarta, Visual Studio, etc. were definitely not. Most of those kinds of apps are way faster now than they were in the 90s, mostly thanks to SSDs. (Vi…

>"Most of those kinds of apps are way faster now"

Some calculation intensive parts sure are thanks to modern CPU with plenty of cache and RAM and multiple cores.

GUI on the other hand are often atrocious

Re: SQLook – A free online SQLite database manager with a Windows 2000 interface

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Post by hot_gril »

hliyan wrote: post #21

The user experience is so (paradoxically) refreshing. Back then you could fit so much useful information and controls into a single screenful; interfaces responded instantly; it was easy to figure where things are and what I'm looking at. With "modern" UIs, you can't get a big picture of what you're working on because there is so much white space and scrolling; the application is slower than your fingers; with each a…

A lot of modern websites even add an intentional delay for buttons to respond or even load because it "looks nice."

Re: SQLook – A free online SQLite database manager with a Windows 2000 interface

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thomastay wrote: post #28

I think it's pretty cool that the source code is all in a single file called app.js, and it's just doing simple DOM manipulations, no React, no minification, no libraries. I like to think it's just written like that too, a gigantic file that the author just iterates on.

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Re: SQLook – A free online SQLite database manager with a Windows 2000 interface

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Post by hobobaggins »

GranPC wrote: post #46
thomastay wrote: post #28

I think it's pretty cool that the source code is all in a single file called app.js, and it's just doing simple DOM manipulations, no React, no minification, no libraries. I like to think it's just written like that too, a gigantic file that the author just iterates on.

And that's the "magic" that makes it so snappy and fast to load. I built a web-based game just like that and I am confident that my choice not to use any of the "modern web dev stack" is the reason I managed to hit my 60 FPS performance target on an iPhone 6s in 2024.

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Re: SQLook – A free online SQLite database manager with a Windows 2000 interface

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Post by hobobaggins »

karamanolev wrote: post #37
BrouteMinou wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, I initially thought that the first dialog box was a screencap of a "real" one... Impressive!

Pixel-aligned non-antialiased interfaces make it so much easier to reproduce. Good luck emulating current-gen desktop OS rendering on a different software and hardware stack...

Easy to criticize, hard to actually build something.

Re: SQLook – A free online SQLite database manager with a Windows 2000 interface

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Post by dspillett »

IshKebab wrote: post #36
exe34 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

when you click save or when memory has to be paged/loaded, etc, yes. when it comes to responding to user input - while memory is being swapped, yes. in contrast, even when the computer wasn't responding, it never lost keystrokes. I'd type ahead and then the characters would appear when it was ready. now, the windows computer just randomly loses characters and loses focus for no reason. if it's not paying attention wh…

Windows doesn't randomly lose characters or focus for me.

My problem with Windows today is it taking so long waiting for it to switch focus sometimes. If I don't artificially wait, a few keystrokes go to the previous target or off into the aether.

Re: SQLook – A free online SQLite database manager with a Windows 2000 interface

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hliyan wrote: post #21

The user experience is so (paradoxically) refreshing. Back then you could fit so much useful information and controls into a single screenful; interfaces responded instantly; it was easy to figure where things are and what I'm looking at. With "modern" UIs, you can't get a big picture of what you're working on because there is so much white space and scrolling; the application is slower than your fingers; with each a…

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