Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

Hello world! I'm back from migrating my Mastodon server to new (and hopefully cheaper) infra. 🤪

Tried out FLTK for #rust #gui development. The API seems decent enough but it seems like it doesn't use the OS's theme which makes me question whether it's actually using "native" UI elements.

Also anyone wanna buy me a mac and windows box for testing cross platform stuff? 🤪

Thinking of adding a new web API to add the ability to add to native context menus. 🤔 It'd be nice if it could be made declarative, too. Like "Attach a context menu to this UI" and give it events for show/hide.

Similar to how the web currently has a native "modal" component with some functionality. I think this was tried before? I'm sad it didn't end up sticking.

What's cool is you can polyfill it with a browser extension since that's an ability they have.

@robotgrrl swooon. Once I have time to make an authoring tool for stuff like this on thr p2p web I should make sure to have a little search and insert function for old timey gifs 🥰🥰🥰

@pospi Yeah that's defs the most annoying part.

I was hoping to go about this by looking at how web apis do things and starting from there.

So it might not have full access to the hardware, but maybe you can get a few standard things.

Like, in even smaller scope than Java promised back in the day.

Oh! And I could package this as a web extension with a new content type for the markup.

That way existing browsers can be "upgraded" to be able to render these apps, as well as native apps being able to run it directly.

Might be a good excuse to do some #rust?

@pospi Yeah that makes sense. Especially when NativeScript tries to expose platform-specific code.

I found React-Native wasn't too bad for the sorts of apps I was making, though we often had to dip into platform-specific native modules which I'd like to avoid as much as possible.

IMO I'm hoping to enable really basic and shitty web app use cases, kinda like the early web (but client-side processed instead of backend).

What sorts of apps were you trying to make with it?

Playing Hypnospace Outlaw. I absolutely love the retro (win 95 era) aesthetic.

Honestly I wish more of the web had the janky neocities feel.

Maybe with 3d objects and layout built in?

I'm thinking html style markup, but fewer tag types and more app ui related tags. Close to how Android's ui editing works?

Now I kinda want to reinvent web pages with a reduced set of functions to make it easier to use native elements across platforms and focus on user theming.

Maybe wasm blobs with a minimal DOM API?

Honestly I'm noy making much progress but I uust played another 9 hours in a row. 🤪 I think I'm about to run into fokd acquisition issues with the next wave of dwarves that move in. otoh, my next fortress will be a lot more efficient

Tee hee, I just lost two hours of gameplay because it crashed. 🤪

Dang I need to get a mod that makes it constantly flash different colors and replace the calm music with breakcore.

So far I'm actually getting into laying out my mine.

Just bought the steam version of dwarf fortress.

Gonna give it a shot! Hopefully the tutorials are easy enough to follow.

Emoticons are the original tone indicators. XP