Re:A second look at "no code" tools (2019)
by Wowfunhappy on Sunday February 14, 2021 @07:20PM
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> To diff something like an image, or a graph, you probably want to see them on top of each other
I look at revisions of Keynote slides this way (side by side) via Apple's "Show Revision History", a feature I'm frankly much too reliant on. The only difference is that with code, editors actually highlight the changes between snapshots. Ideally, you'd want to add that.
Re:A second look at "no code" tools (2019)
by HPsquared on Monday February 15, 2021 @03:39AM
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For Excel there is Microsoft Spreadsheet Compare, which shows the files side-by-side, highlighting differences in data/formulas/properties, and also shows the differences as a list. It can be quite clever, e.g. figuring out that columns or rows have been added or deleted (much like a diff on a text file).
I feel that the one-dimensionality of text makes merging and reasoning about diffs simple, because they are easy to represent side by side. To diff something like an image, or a graph, you probably want to see them on top of each other, however that makes it harder to see the whole.