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> Text search for "minute" This is the sort of thing I love about the web, and composability in general I suppose. The people who designed the HN UI didn't th
by jstanley 9y ago
> Text search for "minute"
This is the sort of thing I love about the web, and composability in general I suppose.
The people who designed the HN UI didn't think or care about that feature at all, but just by virtue of the fact that the user has powerful general-purpose tools at his disposal, and the HN UI is just as valid as content as the actual content is, the user can piece it together for himself.
This would not be possible if HN were a traditionally-designed desktop application instead of a web page.
The web returns us lots of the composability that was lost when "progressing" from CLI applications to GUI applications.
- wruza 9y agoIow, everything is searchable if you put it into Word-like text container. Of course Word had issues like jumping tables and blocks floating at wrong positions between versions, but who doesn’t.
- KajMagnus 9y ago@cygx, @usrusr, @jstanley: Here's one way to show new comments at HN: https://www.talkyard.io/-32/how-hacker-news-can-be-improved-3-things https://www.talkyard.io/-32/how-hacker-news-can-be-improved-... — part 1: "Finding new comments". Video, + live demo if you click "Recent comments" in the upper right corner.