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No. Just simple heuristics that work for most users at the expense of people who admit, like OP's opening statement, "I’m a weirdo". Building responsive client
by hombre_fatal 6y ago
No. Just simple heuristics that work for most users at the expense of people who admit, like OP's opening statement, "I’m a weirdo".
Building responsive client UI is hard. In my experience here, the falsehoods HNers believe about clients is that it's somehow not hard. Or just a silver bullet away from being easy (like replacing JS with $faveLang). Or that resources are infinite such that every defect is explained by incompetence (except for, presumably, that HNer who is intimately familiar with resource finitude in their own life).
- jariel 6y agoIt's 'hard' largely because the standards bodies and browser makers fail to provide simple and expedient means to do the most basic of operations, making every little thing a designer wants to do a giant hack. For something so universal ... there should be a very clear and unambiguous function call and at least a rational way to move through the fragmentation molasses.