Show HN: Svader – Create GPU-rendered Svelte components
https://github.com/sockmaster27/svaderCSS and HTML already have several decades of work on accessibility and cross platform support. It's far from trivial to recreate this.
For things like hero pages, I can see the benefit. But for basic UI like sliders, are you reinventing the wheel here?
One makes my phone extremely sluggish.
It also breaks the browser history.
The page with the list of examples sometimes doesn't render at all. Which is weird bc. <ul> is a solved problem since like 1999.
"Sick stuff, bro!"
In my experience there are times when building HTML CSS components is an anti-user pattern. I know HTML-CSS well, but is it the best experience for users? In some cases my answer is no.
In particular, with complex websites I believe that using graphic navigation is superior to other alternatives. When we want to navigate using {Google,Apple,Etc} maps we do not have a list of hierarchical menus. One does not navigate to the continents menu, then countries, then states, then cities, etc. You zoom out, you zoom in or you type a location. A user can quickly and easily go from a street view in NYC to a street view in Osaka.
I suspect that direct 3D graphics could be used in other situations, but have not had a chance to explore them. Low hanging fruit first.
(And yes, this is not a bug free system. Getting things to work across platforms, browsers, etc can be tedious. On the other hand most {iPhones, Android phones } seem to have strong graphics capabilities that make them able to handle a modicum of graphics. :-) )
What is a website maker to do with this info? An extension made to deface sites defaced my site? Expected behaviour.
So technically the developer of dark reader is the place to go. But if I would use svader - then I would have to be prepared to loose all that audience. (or at least use a sign to warn)
So giving that feedback is still valuable.
People don't care who is to blame. They care if it is working or not. (maybe there is something simple the dev of svader can do)
Bullshit.
Your overall comment might apply to a consumer facing website, but your feedback is rubbish for some developer providing a proof-of-concept. mckirk made a perfectly good "fyi" comment because it didn't pressure the dev, while giving the dev a heads up _if_ they are interested and happen to read HN.
Firefox on a laptop is now a niche browser (3.35%) and is trending to be less popular than Opera (2.86%) and Samsung Internet (2.6%). Obviously HN selects for abnormal users: I actually like mckirk's comment because it is a beautiful reminder that there are niche users with interesting configurations and maybe I should have a look at that plugin. Nobody wants to be an entitled open source user.
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> Bullshit.
Dark Reader has >9 million total users across browsers as reported by the Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Mac app stores [1][2][3][4]. That is definitely a very small percentage of total web browser users - with some estimates putting chrome users at 3.2 billion(!)[5], but 9 million users isn't something to scoff at either.
FWIW - I completely agree that mckirk's comment was a great passing "fyi" that doesn't put pressure on the dev. I also think it relevant to the original post (not some tangential common complaint, nor against the HN guidelines).
[1]: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/dark-reader/eimadpb...
[2]: https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/dark-reade...
[3]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/darkreader/
[4]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dark-reader-for-safari/id14382...
[5]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/543218/worldwide-interne...
Svader is for making consumer facing websites. At least potentially.
"mckirk made a perfectly good "fyi" comment"
And was still downvoted for it. Hence my reaction.
"Firefox on a laptop is now a niche browser"
And I use dark reader on firefox as well as on chrome.
Correctly downvoted: 1. guidelines "Please don't complain about tangential annoyances", 2. HN site norms are enforced by downvotes - downvoting is correct by definition
Plus another important guideline is "Please don't comment about the voting on comments". I'm trying to help you moderate yourself - of course the next escalation is for this inane subthread (including my comments) to be flagged.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html (edited: added more details)
> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.
I think this makes it pretty clear that this guideline wasn't talking about people trying to provide helpful feedback for a developer, letting them know about a strange edge-case (i.e., why should an extension injecting CSS even mess with WebGL content?) that they might want to look into.
We disagree on "tangential annoyances". And that's it from my side.
In this case, there simply was nothing shown for the affected experiments, which is somewhat unusual, and it took me a second to even realize it might be Dark Reader. I thought that could be useful feedback for the developer.