Hacker News Reader

Comment by diminish | Hacker News Reader

Random thoughts; (1) A classic drawing tool made slick, beautiful. (2) Flash is not needed for this type of work at all, thanks to HTML5 (3) It's fast enough (4) View source shows nothing, which means all the UI view generation functionality has moved inside JS.

View on HN

(2) Maybe it was faster for him to build that way, due to experience, etc.. (3) strawman argument, perhaps he chose his technologies for other reasons besides premature optimization. You're essentially accusing him of making a design mistake IMO. (4) The fact that right click is disabled doesn't tell us anything about the software architecture, your statement reads as if its a critique.

I didn't think he was criticising anything.

I was indeed praising him. 2) he used html/js, and i'm glad flash isn't needed to make such a tool 3) i was happy it's fast enough. 4)no u misunderstood; i pressed ctrl+u and have seen the source code, indeed. it's an empty body with few JS files. I find it remarkable as HTML's document centric approach with viewable document structure disappeared from view and moved into the JS files.

What does right click have to do with anything? The HTML source code for the page is 25 lines long and contains no markup at all. Which is not a critique, of course :)

Wow, everything he said was actually praise or just neutral comments. You are trying to argue about something that doesn't exist.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com