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Re:NASA Astronauts Return Home in SpaceX's Crew Dragon Space... by TeMPOraL on Sunday August 02, 2020 @04:16AM (#24027211)
Related, I wonder if there's going to be a postmortem on this mission on the UI, because from the brief scenes when its shown updating or being clicked on, it looks to have a responsiveness on the order of half a second.
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Re:NASA Astronauts Return Home in SpaceX's Crew Dragon Space... by zaroth on Sunday August 02, 2020 @09:58AM (#24028739)
Just to clarify, the error they were seeing was in an app running on an actual portable iPad they carry, not the main screens mounted in front of the seats.
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Re:NASA Astronauts Return Home in SpaceX's Crew Dragon Space... by m0xte on Sunday August 02, 2020 @04:37AM (#24027304)
Think it’s Electron. Doesn’t surprise me. I wouldn’t want to take slack into space with me.
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Re:NASA Astronauts Return Home in SpaceX's Crew Dragon Space... by evv on Sunday August 02, 2020 @08:01AM (#24028117)
It is reportedly Chromium-based, not quite electron. UI is HTML with web components. Lots more details here: https://old.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/gxb7j1/we_are_the_s...
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Re:NASA Astronauts Return Home in SpaceX's Crew Dragon Space... by madeofpalk on Sunday August 02, 2020 @07:17AM (#24027895)
I'm fairly certain there's no Electron on iPad (can't take Chrome to iPad). I also don't think that a native wrapper app that loads (local) html files would display a "Safari" error message.

It was probably just a cached/saved website saved to the home screen. I'm not a rocket scientist, but as a web developer, I would rely upon that for anything earth-bound, let alone in Space.

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Re:NASA Astronauts Return Home in SpaceX's Crew Dragon Space... by interestica on Sunday August 02, 2020 @02:34PM (#24030511)
> I'm not a rocket scientist, but as a web developer, I would rely upon that for anything earth-bound, let alone in Space.

...would?

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Re:NASA Astronauts Return Home in SpaceX's Crew Dragon Space... by madeofpalk on Sunday August 02, 2020 @04:30PM (#24031455)
would NOT. Yikes.
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