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Yeah, that's running in development mode, since it's a scratchpad for live coding. Try something like https://flutterplasma.dev for an example of Flutter's web support when compiled in release mode.

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Thanks for the link. To confirm the point of copying text being broken: try doing that at https://flutterplasma.dev/ -- it kind of works, but not really, no.

Ah fuck me. This is awful. You have to be precisely on the text to select it. I frequently offset my mouse a little to the left of the element to ensure I select the whole text. Even a little bit off to the left and nothing.

I love the idea, but this sounds like it's going to be unpleasant for me. Hopefully they figure out these UX things.

Yeah, tiny differences that would nag the hell out of me. For example double clicking for selecting word is implemented, but triple clicking to select whole line is not implemented ;(

Ew, you can't select across lines of text, even.

I don't think that shows off Flutter's web support. There are no interactive widgets or user interfaces (Flutter's primary purpose?), and the animations are less impressive than demos in DOS from ~30 years ago, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Reality

This took about 30 seconds to load on a Galaxy S7 Edge (yes, I know, ancient technology in 2021) with Firefox. I briefly thought the tab had crashed.

Thanks for the tip, but the compiled version exhibits the same juddering/choppiness for me, most noticeably in the rotations.

Yeah, that's still not great on a Macbook Air 2014. I'd even say that the spinner at the end looks even choppier.

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