Re:Just Write the Parser
by contravariant on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @05:54PM
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There are unused scrollbars everywhere. It's quite an interesting example of scrollbar blindness [1].
I think the design is great. Simple and easy to read.
Re:Just Write the Parser
by Supermancho on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @05:53PM
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I'm not quite sure why they went with the borked "half the screen is empty" look. Ok, it's easier to read, but that negative space is bad design, regardless.
Because... ? https://megous.com/dl/tmp/da01875b777013e9.png
I found the design to be very intuitive even though I'd never encountered that type of information flow before. The curly braces didn't seem to serve any purpose as far as I could tell, but the negative space was great. I knew exactly where the content was going to pop up before I clicked the "link". No jarring resize, just plain ole empty space not taking your attention away from the main content until you want see content in there.
Re:Just Write the Parser
by neurotrace on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @05:16PM
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Different strokes for different folks, I suppose. I found it to be confusing and painful
That being said, I love the information. I don't care for the workflow that comes with the most popular parser generators and I inevitably want more control over my parser as I start adding error handling, etc. It's easier to just write it by hand in the first place