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Zen

@alcinnz i wouldn’t begrudge anyone their fun or their experiments trying to push the state of UI forward. brace for failure though. hopefully the “ugly baby photos” metaphors makes sense. years ago I took a photography class that forbade pet photos. Your pets always look beautiful to you, but that’s not enough to make it a good photo interesting for everyone else to look at.

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Adrian Cochrane replied to Zen

@zensaiyuki Well, success to me looks like webdevs building more accessible pages. For it to be feasable for others to build their own, simpler, browser engines to display those pages. And for The Web to better protect users' privacy!

What I really care about are the deeper architectural issues, which I may still fail at.

Zen replied to Adrian

@alcinnz that’s fine, my comment wasn’t personal. you’re talking to someone who designs widget toolkits for fun and has a list of UI guidelines pinned to their social media. I’d be a hypocrite to dump on you for designing widgets for fun.

Zen replied to Zen

@alcinnz and well, more broadly, you’d have to be fairy resiliant and inattentive to not have been occasionally annoyed by some electron app or cross platform ui toolkit completely breaking the conventions of your os, perhaps even having non standard keyboard shortcuts. or the morass of the linux/unix world where you’d be hard pressed to find any standards whatsoever. the trouble with quitting vim, for instance, isn’t that it’s hard to learn, it’s that it’s not just control+c or control+d

Zen replied to Zen

@alcinnz ah! i just rememebered the ui principle i was gonna post the other day and forgot. #32.

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