Re:Minimalist Affordances: Making the Right Tradeoffs
by sylware on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @05:25AM
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There is "minimalist" and the "sweet spot", aka the reasonable spot.
For instance, in the "web context" (should be a good language here on HN):
For tons of online services, a noscript/basic (x)html is doing a good enough job, and that at a technical cost cosmically cheaper than Big Tech web engines (geeko/blink/webkit), not mentioning their beyond sanity SDK.
In general, you cannot talk about "minimalist" without talking about "bloat-ist". Ofc, Big Tech and its minions will fight that, since planned obsolescence and absurd and grotesque size and complexity are their bread and butter.
For instance, in the "web context" (should be a good language here on HN):
For tons of online services, a noscript/basic (x)html is doing a good enough job, and that at a technical cost cosmically cheaper than Big Tech web engines (geeko/blink/webkit), not mentioning their beyond sanity SDK.
In general, you cannot talk about "minimalist" without talking about "bloat-ist". Ofc, Big Tech and its minions will fight that, since planned obsolescence and absurd and grotesque size and complexity are their bread and butter.