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This does not seem to be an issue with Observable (more an issue with d3 that it has not chosen to have copy-pastable examples elsewhere), but in any case this
by svat 3y ago
This does not seem to be an issue with Observable (more an issue with d3 that it has not chosen to have copy-pastable examples elsewhere), but in any case this comment does not seem relevant to this post, as this post is precisely about how the new Observable Framework removes some of the earlier problems with Observable notebooks (“It’s all just standard JavaScript now—no custom syntax” etc).
- svat 3y agoLike if Microsoft for some reason decided to put all their Azure examples in files that opened in MS Paint, imagine a “My issue with Paint is that…” comment like the above. You should judge MS Paint by how good it is for its stated purpose, not by how it gets in the way when you're not trying to use it. It makes no sense to say “My issue with X is that Y uses it and...” (that would an issue with Y) especially on a post that's about Z and how it's different from X. In this case, Observable Framework is an open-source static-site generator that runs on your machine and uses standard Javascript, so really don't understand what's the connection to specific hosted Observable notebooks. (But I guess it's of some interest/disappointment to the Observable folks that at least some people are encountering their Observable project mainly in the context of looking for d3 examples.)