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Blisk – a browser for web developers
- ramon 10y agoAwesome idea and project!
- pknight 10y agoI love the idea of this but I have no reason to trust the browser. Just installed it to give it a test run. Tabbed to the history tab and it is showing files and locations I've accessed outside of the browser prior to installation. Add the lack of information on their site about who they are and what they do with data, this doesn't inspire confidence.
- ramon 10y agoWill wait for the Mac version and Little Snitch will do the blocking! Always trust the little snitch!
- no1youknowz 10y agoSame. I may actually download this and do exactly that!
- sdwisely 10y ago"Hands Off!" is also worth a look too. Fairly comparable to to Little Snitch but can also does file access.
- gitaarik 10y agoThey say it's based on Chromium so it could be it's accesing your Chrome/Chromium history?
- madow94 10y agoI think it's because of the internet explorer history he may import its file history and made u think that it's storing or recording your files. just clear ur browsing history the first time and everything will be good,I think :)
- okket 10y agoBusiness model? Why should I trust this company?
- sgarrity 10y agoThis is a fair question. I also begs the question of why we should trust other browser vendors. Google's business model seems to be mostly advertising related. This doesn't align particularly well with the interests of individuals using Chrome. Apple's business model has been more hardware-sales oriented, which might mean their browser exists to keep customers happy with their hardware, which might be a better fit. Mozilla exists for the public good, thought it does have some financial pressure to keep the lights on. Disclosure: My business has done work for Mozilla in the past.
- Cthulhu_ 10y agoGoogle Chrome's business model / goals are (were?) providing the fastest and best browser experience available; they were given green light by the Google organization for a simple reason, faster internet = more ad views = more revenue for google. That was a win-win for google, just like all the other (faster) internet technology Google is sponsoring and developing.
- lumberjack 10y agoProbably some variation of paid browser compatibility updates
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- toomanythings2 10y agoIf it's for web developers, why does it only run (for now) on Windows? What developer, who works on the web, uses Windows?
- steele 10y agoMost of Accenture digital, Infosys, etc. Also, did you know that Microsoft also has developers?!
- skrebbel 10y agoYou're so filter bubbled that it hurts. Maybe just another random anecdotal data point helps: Most developers I know use Windows.
- jdright 10y agoYou too seems too bubbled. Maybe just another random anecdotal data point helps: Most developers I know do not use Windows. So we have lots of bubbles everywhere!
- at-fates-hands 10y agoI have a Linux box and a Windows machine. Since I do a lot of .Net stuff my work is done on a Windows machine for obvious reasons. The rest of my front-end work is usually done on my Linux box. Most corporate places I've worked at are Windows shops. Even in those big corporate places, there are only around 1% who use Macs.
- taesu 10y agoChrome already has this feature...
- rpedela 10y agoIt does? How do you use it?
- throwanem 10y agoIf you mean mobile device emulation, it's the second icon from the left on the dev tools toolbar, or Ctrl-Shift-M while the dev tools are open. It doesn't work very well in my experience, but it's there.
- robotnoises 10y agoI suppose they are referring to Developer Tools + Toggle Device Mode. Less feature-complete than what Blisk is claiming, but seems to handle at least some of the device resolution-related things.
- biot 10y agoI count six distinct features which Blisk advertises, of which Chrome has one.
- pritambaral 10y agoCould you list them out for us, please?
- biot 10y agoAll six are shown on the home page, which is the link we are discussing here. In case it's not blindingly obvious, here's the first feature which Chrome has support for: https://blisk.io/#section-multiple-devices https://blisk.io/#section-multiple-devices Scroll down for the other five.
- acconrad 10y agoIt doesn't have the one thing I really want: true browser emulation. I want an IE tab, a Safari tab, and a Chrome tab, so I can compare them side-by-side and know that my site works in all browsers.
- kagamine 10y agoLunascape has something like that. It's not smooth transistioning and has imperfections but it does what you want for trident, firefox and webkit.
- AlikhanPeleg 10y agoYou might want to look into http://www.browseemall.com http://www.browseemall.com which does something like this.
- gcr 10y agoHN's very own https://www.browserling.com/ https://www.browserling.com/ is also quite simple. Free to use for a few minutes.
- Cthulhu_ 10y agohttps://www.browserstack.com/ https://www.browserstack.com/
- smonff 10y agoAlso https://www.browserling.com https://www.browserling.com is a good bet
- tempodox 10y agoUsing a display of Macs to flaunt a Windoze exe is quite misleading.
- mullsork 10y agoWould love to see if this could be integrated with Webpack, which (not necessarily always) requires a full reload to see changes.
- codejunky 10y agoAwesome! It does not work ion Mac and Linux. This is so lol
- morinted 10y ago4 Reasons to use Blisk → PRODUCTIVITY Blisk browser will make you 200% productive. So you can do your work 2 times faster and spend your time for the things that really do matter for you. Or have a cup of coffee and relax. [1] I…what? The big thing that this site had to sell on me is that my browser is going to make a big difference for my job. I already bounce back and forth between Firefox, Chrome, and Brave for different reasons. Telling me that I'm going to be twice as productive just makes me skeptical. 1: https://blisk.io/product https://blisk.io/product
- cyphar 10y agoI guess it'll make you 3 times as productive by making you only use one browser? That's how productivity works, right?
- jkdufair 10y agoPretty cool and I look forward to the evolution of this tool. I found that when I tried to use it with a site that requires authentication, only one of the desktop/mobile views would be authenticated at a time. Would be nice if they shared cookies/local storage.
- flipp3r 10y agoA chromium based browser which does everything that google chrome has built into its development console... what? Integrations with other systems, you mean like tonnes of chrome extensions already provide? ... What's the point of this browser? I'd like a browser that makes development easier but literally everything this browser claims so solve is already built into chrome.
- jbob2000 10y agoThe browser for web developers is the browser your users use. That's it. At some point I am going to have to swap to Chrome and IE to ensure that every runs properly, so why not skip that step and just develop against Chrome and IE?
- bksjdf 10y agoWindows is utter crap, Mac OSX is a slightly less smelly pile of crap, there is also Linux which is much less crap than both Windows and Linux. > I prefer Windows for it's mix of flexibility and stability. Not sure if this is supposed to be a joke.
- evook 10y agoMy two windows workstations (office and home) both have an average uptime of 40 days. Constantly running ~ 20 vm's of various OSs in the background, just because there is no performance gain in shutting them down while they're idling.
- bksjdf 10y agoIs that supposed to mean something?
- WayneBro 10y ago> Not sure if this is supposed to be a joke. Are you really not sure if that is supposed to be a joke or are you just saying that in a passive/aggressive attempt to insult me and/or my opinion? In either case let me assure you, my statement is not a joke. Windows serves my needs for a desktop workstation better than any other OS. I've been programming since I was very young. I've used Linux professionally since early Red Hat releases and the Mac OS since System 1 as a kid and since System 6/7 professionally. Windows is by far the best desktop OS in my opinion since I have to fight with it the least to make it do what I want. Obviously, every desktop OS has its share of problems.
- bksjdf 10y ago> Are you really not sure if that is supposed to be a joke or are you just saying that in a passive/aggressive attempt to insult me and/or my opinion? Yes. > Windows serves my needs for a desktop workstation better than any other OS. The key here being 'my needs' and the fact that you seem to be an inexperienced Mac user, you also don't mention other OSes like Linux. Point being, your personal experience and opinion aren't really very valuable in determining which OS is better objectively. > Windows is by far the best desktop OS in my opinion since I have to fight with it the least to make it do what I want. So your whole point is 'windows is best, because i dont know how to use other OSes'. You literally haven't stated a single factual and concrete example of why Windows is better than Linux and your point about Mac OS is pretty hilarious.
- visarga 10y agoStill a pain to see the Dev Tools together with the website in the same window. The DT pane reduces the available screen for the website and creates problems when trying to check layout while having access to the internals. I was hoping they would crack that problem.
- drinchev 10y agoWhy companies still use a Mac for their headline stock image, when they don't even have the Mac app ready. Other than that nice idea.
- kennydude 10y agoScroll behaviour overriding is horrid on that site.