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The web needs a HIG. All of these people who keep saying that webapps can replace desktop applications were simply never desktop power users. They don’t know w
by mcculley 5mo ago
The web needs a HIG.
All of these people who keep saying that webapps can replace desktop applications were simply never desktop power users. They don’t know what they don’t know.
- dxdm 5mo agoI think HIG means "Human Interface Guidelines" here. Seems to be an Apple thing. I wish more people would avoid or at least introduce abbreviations that may be unfamiliar to the audience.
- andai 5mo agoMicrosoft had one too: WIG! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22475521 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22475521
- teddyh 5mo agoThere are quite a number of them: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_interface_guidelines#Examples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_interface_guidelines#Exa...>
- marcosdumay 5mo agoI think it was a Xerox thing. But since the 90s, everybody has some since. Oh, and if you want to read one to learn, the Microsoft ones are better than the Apple's.
- andai 5mo agoYeah it would be nice if the web accessibility guidelines also focused on actually using the thing normally. For example: offsetting the scrollbar from the right edge of the screen by 1px should be punishable by death.