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Re: Arwes: Futuristic Sci-Fi UI Web Framework

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Post by afavour »

eyelidlessness wrote: post #49
zilti wrote: post #45

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Why? React’s component model can be an excellent abstraction for building a “normal website”—or rather, its component parts—for developers who prefer it. React can compile to static HTML, without running any JS client side, and/or can be used to mount or hydrate arbitrary subtrees however one sees fit. (I’d probably favor Preact or Solid for the latter, but React is a perfectly cromulent choice)

React can be used without JS or by hydrating subtrees but those are very uncommon. It’s certainly not React’s “happy path”.

Re: Arwes: Futuristic Sci-Fi UI Web Framework

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Post by kamikaz1k »

afavour wrote: post #71
eyelidlessness wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why? React’s component model can be an excellent abstraction for building a “normal website”—or rather, its component parts—for developers who prefer it. React can compile to static HTML, without running any JS client side, and/or can be used to mount or hydrate arbitrary subtrees however one sees fit. (I’d probably favor Preact or Solid for the latter, but React is a perfectly cromulent choice)

React can be used without JS or by hydrating subtrees but those are very uncommon. It’s certainly not React’s “happy path”.

Literally just a single API call: renderToString

https://react.dev/reference/react-dom/server/renderToString

Re: Arwes: Futuristic Sci-Fi UI Web Framework

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Post by anigbrowl »

ativzzz wrote: post #51
lusus_naturae wrote: post #20

This is what early internet thought "the future" looks like for the web. I am wondering why there isn't design diversity (not using the sociological meaning of the word here) for forward-looking web technologies? Somehow the conversation typically centers around AR/VR or inserting crypto into everything. VisionOS is stereotypically "clean and modern". Web design in general seems so derivative and uninspired, which is…

> I am wondering why there isn't design diversity Because it doesn't serve much practical purpose. Uniquely designed websites take much more effort (and cash for companies) to create, and they look cool, but they are much harder to use for the average user It's fine for things like advertisements - I've never gone the website for a movie but I imagine this is what those websites should try to be. Is it worth the effo…

much harder to use for the average user

Games use sci-fi looking interfaces all the time and ime they're significantly more intuitive than most business software.

Re: Arwes: Futuristic Sci-Fi UI Web Framework

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Post by vanjajaja1 »

prolapso wrote: post #15

Futuristic UIs peaked decades ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xfTryfN050 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exz1KzuthrQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC3k0d4u5BQ I really wish we had more interesting and functional examples nowadays - the web is bloated anyway, why not make more elaborate use of that bloat? Here's another example, albeit just a singular art project: https://virtualself.co/ Still, it requires tas…

Futuristic design is ironically very retro

Re: Arwes: Futuristic Sci-Fi UI Web Framework

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Post by anyfoo »

I clicked straight on the first example of a real website that uses it, and, surprisingly, I really like it: https://soulextract.com

Normally I'm a "no nonsense" kind of guy for the web, actually preferring plain text as much as possible, but for creative/artistic stuff, it's different. It reminds me a bit of the extravagant flash sites of the early 2000s. Playful, and all the whimsy is part of it.

I even like the sounds this website makes. You'd think it would be cheese, but here it just works?

Re: Arwes: Futuristic Sci-Fi UI Web Framework

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Post by rafark »

Pulcinella wrote: post #2

I’m glad that they include pictures of apps that have been made with it. I would appreciate it if there were more sample pictures, but at least there is something included. Too many GUI and other graphical projects fail to include any images or screenshots, which is poor marketing.

This should apply to all products. Have a framework or a library? Show me some examples, use cases, demos of what it can do and how it does it.

Re: Arwes: Futuristic Sci-Fi UI Web Framework

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Post by rafark »

lusus_naturae wrote: post #20

This is what early internet thought "the future" looks like for the web. I am wondering why there isn't design diversity (not using the sociological meaning of the word here) for forward-looking web technologies? Somehow the conversation typically centers around AR/VR or inserting crypto into everything. VisionOS is stereotypically "clean and modern". Web design in general seems so derivative and uninspired, which is…

When flat design started to become a thing I was very excited. It was beautiful. But then EVERYTHING became flat and now I’m extremely bored.

Just recently I started using reddit and stumbled upon the old version of the site. Look at this subreddit, it’s absolutely gorgeous and goes very well with the theme of the discussions:

https://old.reddit.com/r/gameofthrones/

Re: Arwes: Futuristic Sci-Fi UI Web Framework

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Post by jaimex2 »

bamfly wrote: post #28
101008 wrote: post #16

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A bit unfair to compare a new framework with websites made in Flash decades ago... nothing can compete against Flash websites.

There's still no replacement for the specific thing Flash did. I get that Flash itself sucked (the power use...) but it's really damn sad we simply lost what it could do. I'd have thought we'd have a replacement by now, but no. Incidentally, last I checked, no replacement for the marquee tag, either. That tag had a lot of features, in fact, and when I looked a couple years back there seemed to be zero projects that c…

Flash never sucked or had power use issues. Maybe Mac users had a sub par experience.

Mobile first was the issue. Adobe bought it and blundered about, they could still resurrect the thing but have no vision.

Re: Arwes: Futuristic Sci-Fi UI Web Framework

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Post by djbusby »

bbor wrote: post #70
aquajet wrote: post #61

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examples?

Minority Report and iron man I are the classic examples, IMO. Interactive holograms, 3D immersion, etc. can’t wait for this era!! Coming soon, it seems (with the “giant heavy headset” caveat)

Just need web-commected holo-projectors
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