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skydhash • today at 8:22 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

This looks like built by someone raised exclusively on web and touch technologies, forgetting that both are the results of constraints. The web was not meant to be a UI platforms and have poor primitives, and touch devices lack precise positioning and

Take the chips and rating as an example

https://yappologistic.github.io/CUI/#/c/chips-and-rating

It’s purely aesthetic as functionality (and ux) wise, chips are not different from checkbox with labels and rating is just a discrete slider.

And as I thought, you can see the duplicate code for switch and checkbox here.

https://github.com/yappologistic/CUI/blob/f1202e6d98cdc297f9...

People do need to differentiate between UX primitives and something that just looks different.