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.NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser

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303 points vyrotek | 1 comments | 11 Nov 25 22:50 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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judah ◴[11 Nov 25 23:49 UTC] No.45894501[source]▶
This is interesting for sure. Kudos for bringing this capability to the web!

One issue the demos reveal is, it doesn't _feel_ like the web. That is, I can't hit Ctrl+F to find text on a page. I can't select text with my cursor. I can't copy the address of a hyperlink. On my phone, I can't hard press on an image and share it to others. Screen readers can't handle it. I can't press a shortcut key to make everything larger.

These all may seem pedantic, but they contribute to the feeling "this is not the real web."

This is the same problem with Java applets in the late '90s, Flash and Silverlight in the early 2000s. They are islands of richness within a web page, but those islands are, well, opaque to browsers, search engines, and virtually all web tooling.

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a2128 ◴[12 Nov 25 00:12 UTC] No.45894702[source]▶
Not using the standard web stuff usually means it's also an accessibility nightmare, tried using a screen reader on the demo and it doesn't work at all unfortunately
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charcircuit ◴[12 Nov 25 03:04 UTC] No.45895986[source]▶
What screen reader? Over the last few years AI's ability to understand images has improved a lot.
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1. a2128 ◴[12 Nov 25 07:28 UTC] No.45897288[source]▶
I'm not aware of any screen reader that works by continuously feeding screenshots of user interfaces into a remote expensive image LLM, which is an absolutely insane and impractical idea for many reasons, but I used standard TalkBack on Android