Rendering bezier curves on the client side seems reasonable. Calculating ~400 points and rendering 100 curves would not impact performance, but I wonder if these little interactions would impact performance if added up.

About YouTube's comment about Gangnam Style, it wasn't a tweet. You can't find the original post because it was google+, which is dead. Google said it was a joke shortly afterwards: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/gangnam-styl...

I like how detailed they were in their writing (even though I was suspecting the graph function to be the culprit all along) ! Big Kudos though to get to the ground of it and writing it all down for others to learn ! Also, indeed this would make a great template for LLM problem-decomposition / solving.

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40853564 (while Microsoft has filed it as a bug in Chromium, I hazard it is actually just a bug in the way YouTube handles events on their text fields)

Is this an invented bit of humor ... or an existing usage applied to the prevalence of rounded corners we see (once again) in User Interfaces of today?

(The original term has nothing to do with web design or UI per se)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect

Edit: i see the article goes on to explain the term in context.

But I feel the sharp corners versus round corners is a design/fad cycle that will keep repeating.

We will see sharp corners once again in vogue within the next decade if not sooner.

It will start small with one or two players wanting to distinguish their offering from the crowd, and one of them seeing success, and others copying them slowly at first and then it catches on.