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Sliderland – Creative coding with 64 HTML sliders

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Re: Sliderland – Creative coding with 64 HTML sliders

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Post by squarefoot »

panzerboiler wrote: post #18
squarefoot wrote: post #16

Nice demo, but it pushes CPU usage from 1% to 17-20%, and could encourage the use of the wrong control for a given task. As an example, I've often seen on web pages check boxes (an input widget) used to represent read only boolean values where check marks would have been the correct choice.

Relax. It's a web toy inspired by another web toy. Nothing serious and nothing to be worried about. If you want to change the world for the better, fight against google, twitter, facebook, and their tracking ads networks. Those are the places where a serious amount of CPU cycles are wasted every second producing toxic matter. We need more creative (mis)uses of the web, not less.

I wasn't bashing the creativity, however it should be noted somewhere that it's not the optimal way to use those controls. Although it seem obvious to most of us, people looking for programming examples might take it more seriously. I recall a colleague back in the day (late 90s to early 2k, VB or possibly Delphi) telling me: "heh, I didn't know where to find a sorting function for this and that, so I dragged on the app form a visual component (grid, list etc) having a similar method, made it invisible, then copied data back and forth using its cell/list/array sorting method: problem solved". Different context as my colleague knew it wasn't an optimal solution, but you get the point. I'd also encourage more creative (mis)uses of the web, but possibly with some warnings attached just in case.

Re: Sliderland – Creative coding with 64 HTML sliders

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Post by a9h74j »

oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #25
toqy wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

it also uses canvas, not actual html sliders

Oh yes — I see this comment in the source: > in case you're wondering, i use a canvas instead of HTML sliders for consistent display across browsers which makes the emphasis on sliders even stranger, to me.

Darn, I thought this was going to be my solution to outliers in scientific data plots.

Re: Sliderland – Creative coding with 64 HTML sliders

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Post by sph »

squarefoot wrote: post #32
panzerboiler wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Relax. It's a web toy inspired by another web toy. Nothing serious and nothing to be worried about. If you want to change the world for the better, fight against google, twitter, facebook, and their tracking ads networks. Those are the places where a serious amount of CPU cycles are wasted every second producing toxic matter. We need more creative (mis)uses of the web, not less.

I wasn't bashing the creativity, however it should be noted somewhere that it's not the optimal way to use those controls. Although it seem obvious to most of us, people looking for programming examples might take it more seriously. I recall a colleague back in the day (late 90s to early 2k, VB or possibly Delphi) telling me: "heh, I didn't know where to find a sorting function for this and that, so I dragged on the…

This is not an app, it's not encouraging anything. Art isn't as interesting if you only do things the optimal way.
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