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jbverschoor · 2022-03-07 08:01:37

Maybe not responsive, but definitely fluid design.

adregan | karma 879 | avg karma 2.78 · | 2013-07-26 11:38:45

Yet it's oddly responsive.

cryptonector | karma 9732 | avg karma 1.52 · | 2018-02-27 22:21:39+00:00

Sure, but that's not responsive.

daniel-thompson | karma 1477 | avg karma 5.72 · | 2020-10-20 12:22:09

For me, two things combine to make it feel super responsive: 1. The latency between you moving your finger(s) and seeing movement on the screen feels imperceptible. 2. There isn't any "lost" movement - if you scribble your finger around really quickly and come back to where you start, the cursor or window scroll position will be back to where it started too.

userbinator | karma 78987 | avg karma 4.37 · | 2020-05-10 06:36:31+00:00

My experience of responsiveness agrees with you, and so does this guy's:

https://danluu.com/input-lag/

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AustinG08 | karma 158 | avg karma 1.9 · | 2015-01-15 22:00:00+00:00

But is it responsive!? /s

dyladan | karma 391 | avg karma 3.95 · | 2017-09-11 20:38:43+00:00

I think you misunderstood what I meant by non-responsive. 10ms latency from click to action is nowhere near as noticeable as 10ms latency when dragging, because the mouse visibly lags behind.

lolc | karma 4481 | avg karma 2.32 · | 2022-06-20 15:21:20

What's the secret of making it acceptably responsive? Asking for a friend.

templeosenjoyer | karma 56 | avg karma 4.0 · | 2021-10-04 14:29:49

Do you have any idea why it's so much more responsive?

jasoncartwright | karma 2697 | avg karma 6.92 · | 2013-04-01 11:53:02+00:00

Would have expected it to be responsive?

tfigueroa | karma 271 | avg karma 3.71 · | 2015-01-09 17:51:02+00:00

Not always, but sometimes.

In the hyperbolic hypothetical in the article, "But it isn't responsive!" would be a pretty silly criticism, I think.

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hollerith | karma 6663 | avg karma 1.52 · | 2024-03-13 21:21:22

That's not responsive.

Kiro | karma 10888 | avg karma 1.51 · | 2014-03-12 18:22:05

I don't think the controls are sluggish at all. Do you have an example of non-sluggish controls?

samwillis | karma 29244 | avg karma 9.91 · | 2022-05-27 08:59:05

There is a 200ms debounce on that example, it's also on a tiny DigitalOcean droplet. (I will reduce that debounce)

The approach is similar to Laravel Livewire, and so it's possible to have the same level of responsiveness.

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musicale | karma 7954 | avg karma 1.63 · | 2022-12-13 18:28:32

In human-facing systems, responsiveness is everything.

Somehow games can run at 240fps on a modern PC, but desktop user interfaces (not to mention web apps) are still sluggish.

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EmilioMartinez | karma 108 | avg karma 0.79 · | 2020-06-06 11:13:02+00:00

Sorry, but in my book responsiveness and functionality doesn't have a thing to do with accuracy (neither does parallelism if I may throw it in there).

pilcha | karma 3 | avg karma 1.0 · | 2024-04-08 17:15:32

Lower input lag enables flow state. Can't explain it. You have to feel it.

gruez | karma 34333 | avg karma 2.33 · | 2015-09-20 03:52:09+00:00

b-b-but it's not responsive!

cliveowen | karma 1121 | avg karma 2.25 · | 2014-02-15 21:28:43+00:00

3 seconds is an eternity when it comes to responsiveness. Better than nothing, sure, but we're a long way from an ideal scenario.

leeber | karma 85 | avg karma 1.93 · | 2014-11-14 22:02:48

How well does this work from the user experience standpoint?

Is it a smooth fluid experience, or prone to lag?

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