User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment • Hacker News Board

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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Post by kevingadd » Thu, Jul 04, 2019, 6:01 AM UTC

jonas21 wrote: post #168

OJFord wrote: post #130

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> 5) works better with Javascript disabled Ironically, I find there's (broadly) two sorts of JS-enabled website: - completely broken without (often just a blank canvas) - works better without than with The most entertaining 'works better' example I've had is a site that gave me a free upgrade, because I was blocking client-side price manipulation. Google Maps however: block canvas fingerprinting, and it's Goodbye CPU…

Google Maps uses the Canvas API to draw the map. If you disable it, what do you expect to happen?

Server side map tile rasterization like the old days, maybe

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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Post by pubkraal » Thu, Jul 04, 2019, 6:22 AM UTC

smoyer wrote: post #98

xenocyon wrote: post #74

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I rather miss those early days. Web 1.0 is looked down on for its visual clutter (and definitely the hatred of image backgrounds and animated text was well-deserved), but Web 2.0 has just as much if not more clutter, and of a darker nature.

My kids always insisted on using the blink and marquee tags together :O

I’m not sure why the overlords of HTML had to remove blink in the first place.

I have a daily need for both tags.

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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Post by coconut85 » Thu, Jul 04, 2019, 7:20 AM UTC

Lol, I couldn't even move further than the first step. Absolutely frustrating. Love it!

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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Post by OJFord » Thu, Jul 04, 2019, 7:59 AM UTC

jonas21 wrote: post #168

OJFord wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 5) works better with Javascript disabled Ironically, I find there's (broadly) two sorts of JS-enabled website: - completely broken without (often just a blank canvas) - works better without than with The most entertaining 'works better' example I've had is a site that gave me a free upgrade, because I was blocking client-side price manipulation. Google Maps however: block canvas fingerprinting, and it's Goodbye CPU…

Google Maps uses the Canvas API to draw the map. If you disable it, what do you expect to happen?

It still works (perhaps only some of the API deemed 'fingerprinty' is blocked, I don't know) - slowly - it just shoots CPU usage up and battery down.

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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Post by Crinus » Thu, Jul 04, 2019, 10:01 AM UTC

l0b0 wrote: post #185

lbotos wrote: post #184

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So, I'm younger, but there was absolutely a shift in thinking from web 1.0 to 2.0 in that 2006-2008 era. You could even call it the Ajaxian era. http://ajaxian.com/ I read that blog every day and the techniques and tooling (jquery/mootools/etc) absolutely shifted the thinking that birthed our "modern" react/vue style single page app. This is like saying that Classical -> Baroque never happened because people still pa…

No, what happened was that a lot of people said "web 2.0!", a bunch of other people said "AJAX!", and only the AJAX thing actually happened. Web 2.0 meant the semantic web, not the asynchronously loaded web.

For as far as i remember 'web 2.0' meant replicating Mac OS X's Aqua on the web (very poorly, of course) with gradients and shadows (not necessarily through CSS, thanks to IE6, but it helped) and unnecessary javascript everywhere.

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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Post by mistro » Thu, Jul 04, 2019, 11:33 AM UTC

TheRealSteel wrote: post #170

outworlder wrote: post #159

"Select all pictures with a bow" Then you have an actual bow. Like in archery. Next to a bowtie. Ok fine. "Select all pictures of glasses" Now you have a glass window. And glasses, as in spectacles. Holy crap, that triggers me.

Clever. I would have gone with 'Select all images related to set'. If I recall correctly, 'set' has the most definitions of any English word, plus it could lead to some interesting contradictions, paradoxes, and confusion - any answer could be right! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_paradox

I'm pretty sure it changed relatively recently and is now "put", which has over 200 definitions (many of which overlap with "set")!

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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Post by Khoth » Thu, Jul 04, 2019, 11:45 AM UTC

ghettoimp wrote: post #71

Oh man, well played! Gave up at the user agreement, where you can't "accept" or dismiss until (presumably) you scroll to the bottom. The scrollbar is screwed up so that (1) wheeling is super slow and (2) you can't grab the elevator and drag it to the bottom of the shaft.

Part of the user agreement, near the top, is "I agree not to speed up the scrolling by holding down alt"

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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Post by bristleworm » Thu, Jul 04, 2019, 11:59 AM UTC

That was at the same time surprisingly entertaining and frustrating. Well done!

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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Post by joyjoyjoy » Thu, Jul 04, 2019, 12:14 PM UTC

Great. Love it.

"Your password must have at least 1 Numeral."

Please add: Your password must not end with a numeral.

Re: User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

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Post by lisavanh » Thu, Jul 04, 2019, 12:33 PM UTC

jcranmer wrote: post #57

SamWhited wrote: post #52

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I scrolled down and still couldn't see the checkboxes under the last row. Maybe it also doesn't work on Firefox, because as trivial as it is to make a site that works everywhere no one does. Normally this frustrates me, but if that's the case here it kind of makes sense.

The checkboxes are actually above all of the images. I tried scrolling down, realized I couldn't, then scrolled up to find the unfilled row at the top...

LOL LEGEND