What does the interface for the HtmlRenderer “instrument” look like? Can I create my own Ratio “instrument” in Ratio?

Yes you can create your own instruments. There’s a “+ Instrument” button at the bottom. You can see how in the first video from last week (end): https://vimeo.com/573378340

Inside the “HTMLRenderer” there’s essentially only some String Concatenation and iframe rendering going on. If you don’t like what it does or how it works, you can edit it or clone it. There can be 100 different renderers with different interfaces.

Same for Sliders. If they share the same inputs/outputs, they can be swapped out. So I could use your awesome slider instead of mine.

I’m not sure about the term instrument vs. blocks vs. tools, but I’m hinting at something there that I want to explore further 🙂

Would you consider making the left-most “column” the “in ports” to an instrument and the right-most column the “rendering” / “out ports”?

I thought you were going to re-use the “LOGO” workspace as another instrument 🙂

Something we’re thinking about that you might also find interesting is “Paste” identification, so if someone pastes a Tweet URL, it could automatically suggest a Tweet Viewer or a Webpage Renderer

It looks like you might have already been thinking about this based on:

Various mechanisms for abstraction (wire up something, then copy the resulting block elsewhere), collapse blocks to hide data/UI, combine low level blocks (many inputs) into larger blocks (few inputs)

Yes! I think e.g dragging a wire dropping it should show a filtered list of blocks that match the port type. Also the left/right side is something I thought about but haven’t settled on. Thanks for the feedback!

RTL languages could be a presentational change of just flipping the column order.

This is really neat work @Florian Schulz. I will be curious to see how your type-system evolves, so you can reasonably support higher-level integration with third-party APIs or media manipulation.