{
  "id": 697131,
  "title": "Two scrolling panes is the wrong way to build a side-by-side diff",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/two-scrolling-panes-is-the-wrong-way-to-build-a-side-by-side-diff",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-12T20:02:50.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/hammad4june1999/two-scrolling-panes-is-the-wrong-way-to-build-a-side-by-side-diff-3ehn"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "I had a text-compare tool that asked people to compare two things it would not show them at the same time. One textarea, then another textarea underneath it, then a single-column unified diff below that — removals in red, additions in green, in the order a diff algorithm emits them. Everything on the page was correct and the tool was close to useless, because comparing is a thing your eyes do in…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}