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What's with all these articles where the title says something but then TFA says the total opposite, and yet the article gets a ton of upvotes and no comments?
by sombremesa 5y ago
What's with all these articles where the title says something but then TFA says the total opposite, and yet the article gets a ton of upvotes and no comments?
The author here goes on to say that they don't believe there is any difference in the decoding logic.
- spartanatreyu 5y agoMaybe it's time hacker news got a "Misleading Title" tag that could be added to a submission after it has been posted.
- jrockway 5y agoI'm not sure this is a truly misleading article. And it's interesting enough to warrant upvotes. I will say that when I read the title, I thought "hey, this is going to be some PNG that displays a penguin in Chrome and an orange on Safari". But it's actually about an API method called "decode" and how to use it to display an image with a flicker or something. I don't think the author misled anyone, but rather your own mind is guilty of that.
- sombremesa 5y agoI see, the article has a contradiction: 'Now I don't think Chrome has implemented this feature in any other way from Firefox, except that for some unbeknownst reason it is a lot slower, but I do think that the two browsers decode images in a different way.' It's a result of conflating the decoding itself, which is identical, with how images are swapped in or out.
- cunthorpe 5y agoThere’s is nothing about how browsers decode images here. This is an article about an event called “decode” which you can await. It would be more interesting it was titled this way.
- taneq 5y ago“Browsers decode() images differently”?
- airstrike 5y agoIn the meantime, can we just click on 'flag' or is that not appropriate?
- dang 5y agoWe can change the title if someone suggests a better one. That means: accurate, neutral, and preferably using representative language from the article itself.
- sombremesa 5y agoThanks. I've seen titles being changed by mods but I didn't know they could be user suggested.
- dang 5y agoAll the time! https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20ok%20title%20above&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...