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4 points by elviejo 2y ago

elviejo 2y ago
Breck Yunits continues working in scroll. On this demo in the textarea you can see a code editor to submit a form. What makes it special is that DSL used to create the form is the same DSL used to send the form by email.
- elviejo 2y ago
  There have been 3 videos to develop this DSL. 1st the original idea: https://breckyunits.com/oneTextarea.html https://breckyunits.com/oneTextarea.html Then an implementation https://www.youtube.com/live/97T0TaYTYrw?si=_3MxIHaQ0HVWwMS4 https://www.youtube.com/live/97T0TaYTYrw?si=_3MxIHaQ0HVWwMS4 And the latest email of the form: https://www.youtube.com/live/_3jrpATE1cY?si=EiCZV89PhHB-aU0c https://www.youtube.com/live/_3jrpATE1cY?si=EiCZV89PhHB-aU0c
breck 2y ago
Awesome! Fun building this today with you elviejo! We'll have to meet in person sometime. Aloha everyone! I would LOVE if anyone would be brave enough to record a user test using Loom.com (or other similar screen capture software), and explore this demo! If you are not sure what a Loom user test is, check out my comment history for dozens of them. Together we can make web forms better for 5 billion people!
- one_love 2y ago
  https://streamable.com/dp2akp https://streamable.com/dp2akp
  - breck 2y ago
    This was SO helpful. Thank you so much! Immediately I realize that we need placeholder text in the textarea. Just tried to do it but actually requires a CodeMirror plugin, so will have to tackle tomorrow (https://github.com/breck7/scroll/issues/135 https://github.com/breck7/scroll/issues/135). I was rooting for you to press a keyboard key that would trigger the autocomplete, such as "n", and then it may have clicked, but so helpful to see your (painful) experience so I know we need to surface that better, and provide more guidance. Tomorrow's version should be a lot better. Thanks again!!! Also, appreciated the commentary on the blog post. Definitely not my best writing, and I will clean that up at some point too. This made my day. Thank you.
    - one_love 2y ago
      Any time! I think the blog is good. It targets engineers and those are of course important people to convince. Maybe a paragraph that explained in concrete terms the benefits for the end-user could be helpful.
  - breck 2y ago
    Okay, I've updated now with an example! Thanks again.
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4 points by elviejo 2y ago

Breck Yunits continues working in scroll. On this demo in the textarea you can see a code editor to submit a form. What makes it special is that DSL used to create the form is the same DSL used to send the form by email.

elviejo 2y ago
There have been 3 videos to develop this DSL. 1st the original idea: https://breckyunits.com/oneTextarea.html https://breckyunits.com/oneTextarea.html Then an implementation https://www.youtube.com/live/97T0TaYTYrw?si=_3MxIHaQ0HVWwMS4 https://www.youtube.com/live/97T0TaYTYrw?si=_3MxIHaQ0HVWwMS4 And the latest email of the form: https://www.youtube.com/live/_3jrpATE1cY?si=EiCZV89PhHB-aU0c https://www.youtube.com/live/_3jrpATE1cY?si=EiCZV89PhHB-aU0c

breck 2y ago

Awesome! Fun building this today with you elviejo! We'll have to meet in person sometime. Aloha everyone! I would LOVE if anyone would be brave enough to record a user test using Loom.com (or other similar screen capture software), and explore this demo! If you are not sure what a Loom user test is, check out my comment history for dozens of them. Together we can make web forms better for 5 billion people!

one_love 2y ago
https://streamable.com/dp2akp https://streamable.com/dp2akp
- breck 2y ago
  This was SO helpful. Thank you so much! Immediately I realize that we need placeholder text in the textarea. Just tried to do it but actually requires a CodeMirror plugin, so will have to tackle tomorrow (https://github.com/breck7/scroll/issues/135 https://github.com/breck7/scroll/issues/135). I was rooting for you to press a keyboard key that would trigger the autocomplete, such as "n", and then it may have clicked, but so helpful to see your (painful) experience so I know we need to surface that better, and provide more guidance. Tomorrow's version should be a lot better. Thanks again!!! Also, appreciated the commentary on the blog post. Definitely not my best writing, and I will clean that up at some point too. This made my day. Thank you.
  - one_love 2y ago
    Any time! I think the blog is good. It targets engineers and those are of course important people to convince. Maybe a paragraph that explained in concrete terms the benefits for the end-user could be helpful.
- breck 2y ago
  Okay, I've updated now with an example! Thanks again.

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