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A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE

241 points · 78 comments · wiso

  1. Narishma · · focus · HN ↗
    These kinds of browser recreations of old native apps always fails at text rendering.
    1. nullpoint420 · · focus · HN ↗
      What's wrong with it? Sure it's way more higher quality but the layout seems... fine?
      1. notpushkin · · focus · HN ↗
        Yeah, it’s not 100% correct (some margins are off to my eye) but it’s okay.

        Some texts on the other hand scream LLM to me. E.g. this label in the Print Code dialog:

        > Opens a browser print window containing source only. Browser and operating-system print settings remain native.

        This is just not how humans write. In fact, I don’t think a human would write anything here – it’s an implementation detail, not something that should be user-facing.

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