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QuickUI | Looking beneath the hood of web user interfaces | Page 2
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Looking beneath the hood of web user interfaces. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Newer posts →. Quetzal: an experimental translation of the QuickUI component model to HTML custom elements. June 3, 2013. I’ve started an experiment called Quetzal. That considers translating the core concepts from QuickUI to the proposed web component standards currently embodied by Polymer. June 13, 2014: The Quetzal project has grown into an open source project called Basic Web Components. I’ve s...
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flow|state: An axiomatic approach to defining user interface elements: building complex elements from simple ones
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Laquo; Evidence suggesting more than half of web app UI code is reinventing results already achieved many times before. Designing by Making: your process for arranging furniture can point toward a good process for UI design ». September 17, 2012. An axiomatic approach to defining user interface elements: building complex elements from simple ones. Take something as basic as tabs. Every web UI package includes a widget or component that produces a set of tabs, such as the typical example from jQuery UI.
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flow|state: Amazon: Please make better use of cover art to improve the ebook reading experience
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Laquo; If we created an open library of web components for all general-purpose UI patterns, how many would there be? Paper can be faster than gadgets: a printable 2014 wall calendar for more efficient scheduling discussions ». October 01, 2013. Amazon: Please make better use of cover art to improve the ebook reading experience. As we pass through the transition from paper to electronic books, the humble book cover seems to have been dropped from important roles in the reading experience. A movie’s openin...
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The Web Still Needs a Vibrant UI Ecosystem - Mehran Mozaffari
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Opinions, solutions and ideas. The Web Still Needs a Vibrant UI Ecosystem ⇒. I’ve been considering putting together a video screencast sharing some thoughts on web UI components, covering the case for why we need them, some limited solutions today, the prospects for the Web Components standard, and the principles behind my own work on the QuickUI. Posted by Mehran Mozaffari. Laquo; What is a browser? What is user experience strategy anyway? The User Experience of an app. What is a browser?
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flow|state: A 2013 wall calendar optimized for project management discussions
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Laquo; Designing by Making: your process for arranging furniture can point toward a good process for UI design. UI component whiteboard talk: The Web Still Needs a Vibrant UI Ecosystem ». January 16, 2013. A 2013 wall calendar optimized for project management discussions. In many project discussions, it’s been my experience that two calendar-related questions constantly arise:. On what day of the week will date. What is the date of a given day of the week. A corollary of the above point is that the calen...
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flow|state: Delegate brain-melting date math and localization to general-purpose calendar web components
http://miksovsky.blogs.com/flowstate/2014/08/general-purpose-calendar-web-components.html
Laquo; Deconstructing the standard photo carousel into general-purpose web components. August 04, 2014. Delegate brain-melting date math and localization to general-purpose calendar web components. Which of these month calendars looks correct to you? With that goal in mind, I’ve contributed a set of calendar components to the open source Basic Web Components project. Rather than producing a monolithic monthly calendar component, these components follow the guidelines for general-purpose components. This ...
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flow|state: Evidence suggesting more than half of web app UI code is reinventing results already achieved many times before
http://miksovsky.blogs.com/flowstate/2012/06/reinventing-the-ui-wheel.html
An axiomatic approach to defining user interface elements: building complex elements from simple ones ». June 19, 2012. Evidence suggesting more than half of web app UI code is reinventing results already achieved many times before. Web app designers and developers spend a staggering amount of time recreating common effects and behavior that have already been done many times before on other sites, or within their own organization, or in their own code on previous projects, or worse yet in their. Of UI co...
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Quetzal | QuickUI
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Looking beneath the hood of web user interfaces. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Puzzle: Define HTML custom element subclasses that can fill in base class insertion points. June 11, 2013. This post presents a little web component architectural puzzle which I’ve come across in the early stages of creating Quetzal. Background on the puzzle. The QuickUI documentation presents a simple page template example. Fills in the popup portion of a ComboBox. Along those same lines, this same issue...
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Do web component developers still need jQuery? | QuickUI
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Looking beneath the hood of web user interfaces. Skip to primary content. Do web component developers still need jQuery? June 4, 2013. I love you, jQuery. But maybe it’s time we started spending some time apart. Improvements in cross-browser feature set and compatibility are reducing the need for jQuery, but more importantly, it turns out that a component-based app needs very little jQuery to begin with. These insights led to one of the first decisions I hit in starting Quetzal. Should it require jQuery?
