lessons in UI design from an industrial supply company.
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By webdevver 2025-11-2411:40 lol for real. weve heard about it quite a lot, actually - infact not a year goes by without someone rediscovering that html can load quite quickly if given the chance.
By theandrewbailey 2025-11-2412:021 reply Back when this was making the rounds several years ago, I was intrigued that they request pages in the background on mouse-over, then swap on click. I decided to do similar on my blog, since my pages are about a dozen kb of HTML, and I aggressively cache things. My blog now feels super fast to navigate through, since I've eliminated a ton of network lag.
By nirava 2025-11-2419:44 wow it is really fast!
Built with asp.net and jQuery. Nowadays, it would probably be some React monstrosity that takes 30s to load and only shows one item per page (when did information density become evil?).
By llbbdd 2025-11-2419:52 I remember seeing this last time the McMaster site went around and it's great. It's wild to me though that ignorant reflexive copy-paste lashes against React like this thread OP are so common that there was value to putting this together.
I've been doing more and more web dev with JQuery recently. I learned it in high school and I think most of the new JS frameworks are probably worse.
By llbbdd 2025-11-2419:54 jQuery is more of a DOM API wrapper than any modern framework, they serve entirely different needs.
By eternityforest 2025-11-252:17 I'm generally annoyed whe
By aitchnyu 2025-11-2413:15 The UX wizards ensure your phone and 32-inch show upto 6 products so customers dont face too much info. A goal-oriented (vs browsing) app wont have whitespace or infinite scroll.
By tjpnz 2025-11-248:23 I think there's also some Yahoo UI in there too.
