martin_ky

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by martin_ky 9y ago
I don't think it's the added security, that makes new software slower and less responsive.
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by martin_ky 9y ago
I don't know if it's just me, but I have to exert significant energy to convince (typically) new hires, that it does not really hurt anything if we use older versions of some dependencies, as long as they are stable and we are not
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by martin_ky 9y ago
I beg to differ. I find UI programming (and by extension any kind of graphics programming) interesting and rewarding. I can see the results of my work immediately. The visual confirmation after each code-compile-debug cycle is satisfactory.
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by martin_ky 9y ago
> Has this been tried before? Yes, on Windows this technology is called OLE (Object Linking and Embedding). It allows embedding (parts) of other applications' documents in a document. Nowadays only a few programs besides the MS Offi
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by martin_ky 9y ago
I am genuinely curious to learn what do you mean by "delivered in a modern way"? Which parts of Excel are obsolete and could be modernized?
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by martin_ky 9y ago
Thanks for the tip. The command line flag for Chrome is --disable-remote-fonts and it works as of version 60. But this breaks also other, more useful uses of web fonts, such as font icons. I guess my gripe is mostly with web designers who p
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by martin_ky 9y ago
I wish browsers provided a setting to prefer internal system fonts over web fonts (or even option to disable web fonts completely). Readability is still important - not everyone has a >200 ppi display. Fonts distributed with the operatin
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by martin_ky 9y ago
> Now that I'm forced to dive into it, I see that they just reinvent square wheels in a wrong ways that were polished a decades ago in regular desktop apps. Being a desktop and embedded developer myself, I share your sentiment. My p
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by martin_ky 9y ago
Due to its versatility, Makefiles can be creatively used beyond building software projects. Case in point: I used a very simple hand-crafted Makefile [1] to drive massive Ansible deployment jobs (thousands of independently deployed hosts) a
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by martin_ky 9y ago
Exactly. These fictional UIs are designed for a single end - to look good on camera. I think there is an inverse correlation between "cool" and "useful" - the "cool" often distracts from the "useful".
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by martin_ky 9y ago
This effect is kind of similar to what makes subpixel font rendering look horrible when the wrong LCD subpixel order is selected. Or why text looks jaggy on pentile displays, especially while scrolling.
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by martin_ky 9y ago
Similar device was used in the sci-fi novel Snow Crash. It appeared like a black and white image of static but in fact contained a subliminal message which tapped into some subconscious low-level cognitive functions of the brain. Just by lo
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by martin_ky 9y ago
There has been a recurring theme in the comments: "You don't just replace HTML with something else and non standard overnight." Perhaps, I should clarify... In my blog, I don't call for replacement of any current web tec
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by martin_ky 9y ago
Apart from maybe simple shapes and fills, I think there is little value in adding a complete object-oriented library of scriptable graphics elements into a UI layout / widget language. For custom drawing needs (charts, data plots, diag
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by martin_ky 9y ago
I apologize. I wrote the article expecting that readers would be already familiar with QML or look it up. What I ultimately wanted, was to get a discussion going and see if other people (who know both QML and HTML) share my view - that QML
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by martin_ky 9y ago
You're right. The blog post announcing the NaCl port is dated 9/2015. I don't believe that effort is still active nor am I aware of any official efforts to get Qt / QML run on WebAssembly. There is the Qt Quick WebGL Str
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by martin_ky 9y ago
I (author) meant that as an example of how you could achieve portability and consistency with HTML5. The canvas approach is NOT what QML does, however. Not unlike HTML DOM, QML builds a tree of objects from the declarative representation (.
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by martin_ky 9y ago
> I'm not sure that any of these UI frameworks are going to get much traction QML / Qt Quick gets a lot of traction, from mobile and embedded systems developers and lately a lot from automotive industry. It's just largely
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by martin_ky 9y ago
We get interactive framerates ~30fps with Qt Quick on Raspberry Pi B+ with fullscreen video playback in the background.
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by martin_ky 9y ago
QML is also a general purpose declarative language with data bindings. The UI framework, called Qt Quick, is just one, though most prominent use case. As a non-UI example, there is Qt's own new experimental build system - QBS - http:&
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by martin_ky 9y ago
Yes, I (post author) believe QML can be implemented on top of current browser tech, namely JS+DOM, or NaCl+WebGL. Someone indeed did implement a subset this way - https://qmlweb.github.io/ and the latter might even be suppo
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by martin_ky 9y ago
Creating responsive UIs in QML is quite easy: just hook to the screen size property (width property of the root element) and modify your scene accordingly. What I meant by that was, that QML is rather good at displaying things that you mean