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Rasmus Andersson
@rsms
This is fun and a great description of how raggedy web development really is. I think we need to ask ourselves if HTML & CSS really is sustainable for crafting software. It’s fantastic for publishing text documents with a few images, though.
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Vlad Magdalin
@callmevlad
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The @webflow team made a new commercial, and I AM IN LOVE WITH IT! The cast, the music, that eyedropper... everything! 😍 "If life were like web design..." (P.S. Our marketing team is going to kill me for leaking this early, so please don't tell them it was me... 🤫)
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Rasmus Andersson
@rsms
What’s so great about the web is not HTML, but the URL and the ubiquitousness of the web browser, in which just one component is about HTML.
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Rasmus Andersson
@rsms
Here’s what we need to do: - take a browser code base - add a reliable UI API alongside HTML - when a http response says “content-type: app” load it with the reliable UI API instead of HTML This way HTML can be used for what it’s good for and app quality goes up, cost goes down.
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Andy Matuschak
@andy_matuschak
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@rikarends
’s work with makepad, a rust->wasm IDE which does its own UI rendering. My understanding is that they hope to extract a toolkit from the project! Also heard whispers of a “direct” WebGL-based react native renderer at Facebook—could be compelling.
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Rik Arends
@rikarends
The 'WASM' interface i use is a strongly compacted form of webGL with webXR/mouse/keyboard/IME controls. It's about 30 calls in and 30 out of wasm which i serialise into a message format. That also keeps it very performant, try makepad.dev (press alt for fun example)
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