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Visual editor perspectives:

1. Experience with UE4 / Blender
2. Preference for writing code over node editors
3. First time using a visual editor

Domain perspectives:

1. Prior experience with software development, unfamiliar with smart contracts
2. Familiar with Solidity / Ethereum, trying to learn Motoko / IC
3. Curiosity about learning to code using a visual editor

UE4 Blueprint equivalent

Comments and boxes can potentially be represented as blocks with special rendering logic, especially once we complete #9.

Starting point: rete-comment-plugin

For instance, when selecting a Function node, it should be possible to quickly see every Function Call referencing the function.

• Rete GitHub issue
• CodePen - Rete.js React dock menu
• Rete dock-plugin

Caused by various obscure SVG rendering edge cases, e.g. duplicate element IDs.

Rete.js issue

List of reserved keywords

Based on user feedback, we might want to reduce the form factor of the top editor menu due to the constrained space on laptop screens.

An alpha tester mentioned that pinch zooming would feel much more intuitive on Mac (compared to scroll-wheel zooming). Let's perhaps look into whether this would be feasible using gesture events.

A few quick Google search results:

• Prevent pinch/zoom in Safari for OSX
• react-zoom-pan-pinch

Relevant libraries:

• intro.js
• react-joyride

Should be an easy fix

This is going to be an adventure. We may need to add a new event listener to our forked version of Rete.js in order to make this possible.

Useful for learning and important for accessibility / colorblindness.

We could adapt rete-drag-selection-plugin to work without holding the ctrl key after switching viewport translation to the right mouse button.

This seems to be an issue with how Rete.js detects single clicks (via proximity to the most recent mousedown event).

For instance, typing "123" should suggest an option which generates a Nat block with value 123.