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Could someone explain to me the difference between a "card" and any other rectangular grouping of content?
by techpeace 11y ago
Could someone explain to me the difference between a "card" and any other rectangular grouping of content?
- kenbellows 11y agoVisually, a card often has a header and/or footer and is generally embeddable into a standard article body (e.g. Twitter's embeddable tweet cards). Content-wise, a card serves a very specific semantic purpose: presenting a self-contained block of data to a user in a standalone way. The metaphor employed here is something like a trading card or baseball card, such that a block of data or metadata about a particular subject is called out in a self-contained way that is easily understandable and digestable.
- aaronbrethorst 11y agoHype, as far as I can tell. (e.g. https://blog.intercom.io/why-cards-are-the-future-of-the-web/ https://blog.intercom.io/why-cards-are-the-future-of-the-web... seems just a wee bit excessive in its enthusiasm for cards.)