First IP i tried and the RDNS goes "outside" of my display on the right instead of being centered. Lot of white space for nothing on the right.
Hard to understand what every value means, I had to check the HTML source and the div id to understand.
Pretty. And useless. No labels on anything, numbers arranged every which way and that, disrupting reading and removing the ability to skim and isolate the information you're looking for.
A completely counterproductive design that I pray was done as an artistic endeavour and not as a genuine "design" by anyone who would wish to claim to know UX.
Probably one of the worst offenders of "all form, no function" I've seen recently.
It is form over function, it is arguably less readable like this. While I can tell what each part means it takes me longer due to the non standard design.
That said, in form it is highly accomplished. Very shiny.
Cool side project? Hacker News is news in any sense of the word "Hacker". That can mean Enterpurnial News for any type of business. Or it can mean Show-Off-Neat-Side-Project News.
The one thing that it doesn't mean is One-Person-Or-Group-Only News.
> Probably one of the worst offenders of "all form, no function" I've seen recently.
But does that really count when form is the intended function, and what little practical function that exists is mealy a flimsy excuse for the form to exist...?
Nah, it is neat and pretty - sort of like one of those novelty clocks that run backwards or have math functions instead of numbers. Nifty, and might be a cool conversation piece.
I'm just hoping that's what this is and that the creator wasn't seriously trying to create something that people would actually use.
I think you may be taking this a little too seriously and I'm also considering you're being sarcastic though I'm not sure.
As far as I'm aware no one is making great claims of this being some UX masterpiece or it's purpose of being functional and from a cursory look it seems as if the purpose was for 'neat-o' or even 'pretty' factor. Also, have you considered it's intended audience? Not everything created has it's intended audience as, well, everyone. Myself and I imagine most people on HN understand it fine and actually enjoy it being presented that way (Therefore it does have function) as opposed to the standard way we've seen it for who knows how many years.
So, your prayer looks like it was answered before you even uttered it though going by www.phurix.net . . .
Then render it as colors, or music etc. Since it was rendered as text, there is some expectation that somebody will try to read it. And its pretty unreadable.
Looks like I'm one of the few that likes it so far!
I think it's simple, I like the fact that it does just one thing, and I enjoyed the geekiness of the extra encodings (binary, long and hex).
Almost every other network tool website is 50% google ads, 50% reverse-dns-propagation-zone-transfer style, with the actual IP address in small or medium size text. Double click selection works well in my browser too (FF 5.0).
Probably so you know that the output you received is definitely an IP if egrep returns 0. The script on the server could fail or return unexpected non-IP output.
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[ 7.5 ms ] story [ 90.2 ms ] threadA completely counterproductive design that I pray was done as an artistic endeavour and not as a genuine "design" by anyone who would wish to claim to know UX.
Probably one of the worst offenders of "all form, no function" I've seen recently.
There's no need to insult the visitors intelligence.
That said, in form it is highly accomplished. Very shiny.
The one thing that it doesn't mean is One-Person-Or-Group-Only News.
Maybe because you can find likeminded who appreciate and understand what you are doing.
I sure hope stuff like this is allowed even if it isn't applicable to a business. Who knows it might inspire someone.
Why the attitude?
But does that really count when form is the intended function, and what little practical function that exists is mealy a flimsy excuse for the form to exist...?
I'm just hoping that's what this is and that the creator wasn't seriously trying to create something that people would actually use.
As far as I'm aware no one is making great claims of this being some UX masterpiece or it's purpose of being functional and from a cursory look it seems as if the purpose was for 'neat-o' or even 'pretty' factor. Also, have you considered it's intended audience? Not everything created has it's intended audience as, well, everyone. Myself and I imagine most people on HN understand it fine and actually enjoy it being presented that way (Therefore it does have function) as opposed to the standard way we've seen it for who knows how many years.
So, your prayer looks like it was answered before you even uttered it though going by www.phurix.net . . .
Although you don't get the IPv6 stuff.
I think it's simple, I like the fact that it does just one thing, and I enjoyed the geekiness of the extra encodings (binary, long and hex).
Almost every other network tool website is 50% google ads, 50% reverse-dns-propagation-zone-transfer style, with the actual IP address in small or medium size text. Double click selection works well in my browser too (FF 5.0).
You have my upvote!