Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

I wanted to share my favourite part, when the author was talking about custom UI elements, so I copied the text to share it with you:

> Customishard,andtomecustomisreallysayingthatyouhavemoretimetothinkaboutthebehaviorofaselectboxthanApple’sinteractiondesignteam.Andthatyouhavethedevpowertofixit. Oneveryplatformoutthere.Sosometimesyoujusthavetobepragmaticifyou’rebuildingaproduct

PS: slideshare sucks at exactly this kind of UI.




Something went wrong with your formatting here:

"Custom is hard, and to me custom is really saying that you have more time to think about the behavior of a select box than Apple’s interaction design team.

And that you have the dev power to fix it. On every platform out there. So sometimes you just have to be pragmatic if you’re building a product."


Thanks for clearing the quote up—but that was exactly the parent post's point—

> SlideShare sucks at exactly this kind of UI

You can't copy and paste its text!


If you scroll down there's a transcript which you can c/p from, but I agree that it's not ideal.


He had me at:

> If you do nothing, the end result is better.


The exact same thing happened when I tried to copy text from a slide - the white space didn't copy over.




Join us for AI Startup School this June 16-17 in San Francisco!

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: