> rendering React Native directly on canvas or webgl
I just threw up in my mouth a little. I can’t wait to:
- not be able to double click to highlight text a word at a time, because the developers of the “super smooth UX” didn’t know that’s what typical text does.
- or triple click to highlight a paragraph at a time
- or have the standard menu available when I highlight text (which I often use to look up words, etc)
- or have text editing support any of my OS’s key bindings, like ctrl-left to move the caret one word, ctrl-shift left to highlight in the process, etc etc
- or any one of the hundreds upon hundreds of common control behaviors, accessibility behaviors, system-wide settings on text behaviors, etc etc etc be respected
Of course if they’re anything like the Flutter folks, they’ll look at every one of these things and say “well, I guess we gotta implement all that” rather than understanding the basic fact that common UI elements offered by the OS should actually be reused, not reimplemented poorly.
I really worry about what software will look like 20 years from now. At this rate we’re just going to forget every thing we learned about how it should behave.
I just threw up in my mouth a little. I can’t wait to:
- not be able to double click to highlight text a word at a time, because the developers of the “super smooth UX” didn’t know that’s what typical text does.
- or triple click to highlight a paragraph at a time
- or have the standard menu available when I highlight text (which I often use to look up words, etc)
- or have text editing support any of my OS’s key bindings, like ctrl-left to move the caret one word, ctrl-shift left to highlight in the process, etc etc
- or any one of the hundreds upon hundreds of common control behaviors, accessibility behaviors, system-wide settings on text behaviors, etc etc etc be respected
Of course if they’re anything like the Flutter folks, they’ll look at every one of these things and say “well, I guess we gotta implement all that” rather than understanding the basic fact that common UI elements offered by the OS should actually be reused, not reimplemented poorly.
I really worry about what software will look like 20 years from now. At this rate we’re just going to forget every thing we learned about how it should behave.