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Has anyone else heard the term jank before? It's the first time I've seen it.
by andrethegiant 13y ago
Has anyone else heard the term jank before? It's the first time I've seen it.
- mcpherrinm 13y agoThe Firefox team definitely used the term with this usage, since at least 2011.
- Pwntastic 13y agoI use/have used the term 'janky' before to describe similar kinds of things or things that seem off or strange. Grew up in the midwest fwiw
- azinman2 13y agoWe (at Empirical) use janky to describe animations that aren't butter as this author uses it. Not sure how standard but I suspect many people (native speakers) will understand when in context.
- makepanic 13y agoThere is a website [1] with more informations and talks about "jank". [1] - http://jankfree.org/ http://jankfree.org/
- rmccue 13y ago(I'd guess it's originally related to the concept of "jerk" in physics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerk_%28physics%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerk_%28physics%29 ) It's been used in this context since at least 2010 by the Chrome team: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Talk:janky http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Talk:janky
- codexon 13y agoNo, usually the term I have heard used for this is jitter.