This content originally appeared on Modern Web Development with Chrome and was authored by Paul Kinlan
Link: WikiTok
This is such an amazing site and has become a bit of a daily habit for me. It's a brilliantly simple idea that means I'm browsing more of Wikipedia than I ever have before.
I built a similar demo a while ago using the now-defunct Portals API because I want to explore what a Web Browser could be if it had a UI like TikTok. My hypothesis was that while links are amazing, what is behind them is hidden, and worse (imo) it's behind a banner image that is often not representative of the content.
So the idea was that as long as you had a list of sites that you might visit it might be neat to have a way to flick between them quickly and get an idea if you actually want to dive into the content. The portals API seemed like a good way to do it because it could run JS, but was non-interactive and in theory privacy-preserving.
I adapted it in mid-2024 to use generated screenshots of the pages. I also thought I should give it a snappy name. Flick the Web's code is here and the you can play with the demo that runs over the latest articles on HackerNews.
I'm really glad that WikiTok did this and also it has been open sourced as I can totally imagine that this type of UI takes off on the web.
This content originally appeared on Modern Web Development with Chrome and was authored by Paul Kinlan
Paul Kinlan | Sciencx (2025-02-17T11:44:53+00:00) WikiTok. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2025/02/17/wikitok/
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