A minimal, UI-focused programming language for web designers

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Post by benjamindc » Tue, Sep 02, 2014, 8:50 AM UTC

A minimal, UI-focused programming language for web designers
uilang.com

Re: A minimal, UI-focused programming language for web designers

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Post by yoran » Tue, Sep 02, 2014, 9:01 AM UTC

Bon boulot Ben!

Re: A minimal, UI-focused programming language for web designers

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Post by pestaa » Tue, Sep 02, 2014, 9:15 AM UTC

It makes easy things slightly easier, and slightly harder things impossible. Stupid idea.

Re: A minimal, UI-focused programming language for web designers

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Post by benjamindc » Tue, Sep 02, 2014, 9:18 AM UTC

pestaa wrote: post #3

It makes easy things slightly easier, and slightly harder things impossible. Stupid idea.

If these things are easy for you, then you're probably not uilang's target audience ;)

Re: A minimal, UI-focused programming language for web designers

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Post by axefrog » Tue, Sep 02, 2014, 9:18 AM UTC

All of the examples are basically differently-styled variations of "clicking on X adds/removes class Y on element Z". Is this all it can do? Would have liked to see some slightly more varied use cases.

Re: A minimal, UI-focused programming language for web designers

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Post by gchp » Tue, Sep 02, 2014, 9:21 AM UTC

axefrog wrote: post #5

All of the examples are basically differently-styled variations of "clicking on X adds/removes class Y on element Z". Is this all it can do? Would have liked to see some slightly more varied use cases.

I was thinking the same. From the few examples given, it seems to be only useful to toggling classes from click events. Would like to see some more use cases.

Re: A minimal, UI-focused programming language for web designers

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Post by benjamindc » Tue, Sep 02, 2014, 9:22 AM UTC

In case you're interested in learning more about the motivation behind creating uilang, I wrote a little piece on Medium: https://medium.com/@bdc/the-educational-side-of-uilang-92d39...

Re: A minimal, UI-focused programming language for web designers

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Post by pestaa » Tue, Sep 02, 2014, 9:25 AM UTC

benjamindc wrote: post #4

pestaa wrote: post #3

It makes easy things slightly easier, and slightly harder things impossible. Stupid idea.

If these things are easy for you, then you're probably not uilang's target audience ;)

Perhaps. The end result of simplifying a task is always the same: "oh but I want to check the value of this field on the page", "can I check the local time to do this", "how do I respond to mouse movements", etc. Real programming can't be abstracted into DSLs in abused HTML elements.

The target audience of uilang should never, in my opinion, try to build websites.

Sorry I'm bitter today.

Re: A minimal, UI-focused programming language for web designers

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Post by nodesolomon » Tue, Sep 02, 2014, 9:25 AM UTC

I think its a good idea, but it needs a bit more work.

Re: A minimal, UI-focused programming language for web designers

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Post by jonrimmer » Tue, Sep 02, 2014, 9:26 AM UTC

benjamindc wrote: post #4

pestaa wrote: post #3

It makes easy things slightly easier, and slightly harder things impossible. Stupid idea.

If these things are easy for you, then you're probably not uilang's target audience ;)

So who is the target audience? How many web designers are capable of writing the HTML and CSS necessary to create animated tabs, accordions and overlays, but can't figure out the few lines of JavaScript/jQuery necessary to toggle classes on elements? I've never met a single person who would fit that description.