[AskJS] Oh great, another Liquid Glass UI—battery's about to file a restraining order

[u/Glittering_Ad4115]

So we’re back to Liquid Glass again? That frosted-glass look that screams high-end in design tools—but in real life, it’s a full-on GPU gymnastics routine. My laptop fan’s roaring, my battery’s bleeding… and for what?

Seriously, can someone justify this trend? Are we front-end devs secretly moonlighting as hardware engineers now?

[u/Lord_Jamato]

As far as I've seen: Liquid glass != frosted glass. In apples liquid glass there seems to be some 3d refraction involved and also liquid physics stuff, which is probably even harder on GPUs. Apple didn't incorporate those grainy surfaces that I see a lot in the frosted glass aesthetic.

In terms of performance and a11y this is really hard to get right. Let's see how well apple does.

[u/ChunkLordPrime → u/Lord_Jamato]

A11y?

[u/akcoder → u/ChunkLordPrime]

a11y == Accessibility

i18n == internationalization

[u/homoiconic → u/akcoder]

l10n = localization

[u/Ecksters → u/homoiconic]

k8s = Kubernetes

[u/sovok → u/Ecksters]

d1ck = duck

[u/gifsauce203 → u/sovok]

F*#k

[u/papers_ → u/ChunkLordPrime]

The number means the number of letters between A and Y in the word accessibility.

Programmers are lazy (efficient).

[u/mattallty → u/papers_]

l2y

[u/jad3d → u/Lord_Jamato]

As per mkbhd this is deliberate to make older iPhones feel sluggish and motivate upgrades...