Any examples of websites with ZUIs? Looks interesting!
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Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs?
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#13Google Maps has a ZUI in Chrome ;) more or less.
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#14Ist this why the web died and went to facebook?
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#15I'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.
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#16I'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.
That's indeed weird. How would they not lose track of their dependencies? How do they keep their code lean and load times fast?
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#17Go spend 5 minutes here on pc desktop. http://cyberspaceandtime.com/Gaano9Y6KAU.video+related I came across this site a few weeks ago. And it's quite unlike anything I've seen. And try to inspect the site using browser inspector. It's a very different ui than I've ever seen before.
What the hell is this?! TempleOS gone social network?!
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#18I'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.
That's indeed weird. How would they not lose track of their dependencies? How do they keep their code lean and load times fast?
They just hope that Google will keep pouring infinite money into making their JavaScript engine faster.
And they never kept track of their dependencies in the first place. That's the job of some build tool. Whatever it pulls in is fine.
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#19Well, HN is pretty weird for the web of today. That's also why it's so nice to use it. I wish more sites had simple, lean UI that let the text communicate its message, instead of being interactive marketing brochures.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's indeed weird. How would they not lose track of their dependencies? How do they keep their code lean and load times fast?
They just hope that Google will keep pouring infinite money into making their JavaScript engine faster. And they never kept track of their dependencies in the first place. That's the job of some build tool. Whatever it pulls in is fine.
What Google giveth, NPM taketh away.