Re:Applying NASA coding standards to JavaScript
by pavlov on Thursday January 08, 2015 @10:55AM
(#8856906)
... referred to as "real time computing" in CS, a term that has recently been made homonymous by UI/UX/front-end designers to describe responsiveness ...
And to add to the confusion, the term "responsive" was co-opted to mean "adaptive layout".
So now it's perfectly possible to have this conversation:
- This site is not responsive.
- Sure it is, try resizing your browser.
- No, I mean that it takes too long to react to user input.
- Oh, you mean it should be real time?
- No, nothing even close to real time -- I'd be happy if something happened in less than 1 second when I click this button...
And to add to the confusion, the term "responsive" was co-opted to mean "adaptive layout".
So now it's perfectly possible to have this conversation:
- This site is not responsive.
- Sure it is, try resizing your browser.
- No, I mean that it takes too long to react to user input.
- Oh, you mean it should be real time?
- No, nothing even close to real time -- I'd be happy if something happened in less than 1 second when I click this button...
- So, real time then.