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A plain-text way to get your point across quickly and artfully in the browser

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Re: A plain-text way to get your point across quickly and artfully in the browser

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post #11

Skip to the demo (in case you get distracted by the colours and other aspects of the website and lose interest): https://author.quickpoint.me/demo/story

Both the website and this demo does a terrible job of showing how good the plain text renders, to the point I have no interest in looking further.

Perhaps they meant "...in the browser on your phone."

Re: A plain-text way to get your point across quickly and artfully in the browser

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post #3

"You need to enable JavaScript to run this app." Very plain text! But I'm not sure what the point was.

What is the definition of plain text? There is hardly any such thing

The browser will happily render text files, but +1 for it shouldn't require js. =)

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/84/pg84.txt

Re: A plain-text way to get your point across quickly and artfully in the browser

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Feedback: navigation within a slide deck needs to happen with `history.replaceState` not `history.pushState` so that it is possible to leave the page again after scrolling around a bit. As it is the back button forces me to back out through my entire scroll history to get to the web page I was previously on which is an anger-inducing experience I would not want to subject others to. As mentioned if plain text is your…

That was something I thought deeply about. I decided that an imaginary user would see a page change as a navigation event. Pressing back and having the whole thing poof could be just as anger inducing. Most SPAs use some type of router to do just that.. I imagine I won’t hear from anyone who prefers it that way so until I can afford some user testing I won’t know. Quite a bit of anxiety about that one. I had initially used replaceState…

Yes, plain text to create it not displayed as plain text. I didn’t write the post so the title may be a little misleading. Flashy JS heavy output for minimal input is the point.

Re: A plain-text way to get your point across quickly and artfully in the browser

#26

Feedback: navigation within a slide deck needs to happen with `history.replaceState` not `history.pushState` so that it is possible to leave the page again after scrolling around a bit. As it is the back button forces me to back out through my entire scroll history to get to the web page I was previously on which is an anger-inducing experience I would not want to subject others to. As mentioned if plain text is your…

Yeah, same problem here. this was annoying enough for me to close the browser and give up.

Sorry to hear that. Maybe I should add a user setting?

Re: A plain-text way to get your point across quickly and artfully in the browser

#27
post #3

"You need to enable JavaScript to run this app." Very plain text! But I'm not sure what the point was.

What is the definition of plain text? There is hardly any such thing

In this case I meant you can use plain old text to render a webpage… which is what you do anyway but I thought I’d make up another way that people who love text but don’t code might find useful.

Re: A plain-text way to get your point across quickly and artfully in the browser

#28
post #11

Skip to the demo (in case you get distracted by the colours and other aspects of the website and lose interest): https://author.quickpoint.me/demo/story

Yeah. Hacker news readers should go straight to the demo…

Re: A plain-text way to get your point across quickly and artfully in the browser

#29
post #19
post #11

Skip to the demo (in case you get distracted by the colours and other aspects of the website and lose interest): https://author.quickpoint.me/demo/story

It won't even open on mobile if the page hasn't been loaded in landscape orientation. This seems to be all about being flashy and JS-heavy, rather than just getting the point across.

There’s two sides to it, an author creating something using plain text in the authoring tool and a reader viewing the final product. So the author uses plain text to get their point across to the reader.

When you’ve created something you can publish it and the reader can view it at a URL. The author obviously isn’t trying to get a point across to themselves in the app.

The authoring tool is a web app and does quite a lot so it is JS heavy. It works well on mobile but the demo only works in landscape as the mobile version is slimmed down so you do have to rotate your phone.

Re: A plain-text way to get your point across quickly and artfully in the browser

#30

Feedback: navigation within a slide deck needs to happen with `history.replaceState` not `history.pushState` so that it is possible to leave the page again after scrolling around a bit. As it is the back button forces me to back out through my entire scroll history to get to the web page I was previously on which is an anger-inducing experience I would not want to subject others to. As mentioned if plain text is your…

That was something I thought deeply about. I decided that an imaginary user would see a page change as a navigation event. Pressing back and having the whole thing poof could be just as anger inducing. Most SPAs use some type of router to do just that.. I imagine I won’t hear from anyone who prefers it that way so until I can afford some user testing I won’t know. Quite a bit of anxiety about that one. I had initiall…

I scrolled down. Then I scrolled up. Then I scrolled down. Then I scrolled up. Then I was ready to leave so I hit the back button. Only instead of that happening, I was scrolled up, and down, and up, and down, and up, and then I could leave.

Taken to the extreme, I think it becomes more apparent which choice is better.

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