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The author's seeming eccentricity does come through in the copy, but to me that made it seem less corporate / more old-school, rather than putting me off (thoug
by lucideer 3y ago
The author's seeming eccentricity does come through in the copy, but to me that made it seem less corporate / more old-school, rather than putting me off (though also preparing me for potentially some similarly eccentric design-choices in the actual product if I ever used it - no Windows installs these days though so I'll have to keep it in mind for the future).
On the other hand, I had a look at the sourcecode after you commented on text selection and it is... bizarre. The author has gone to absolutely enormous effort to prevent text selection - even if you disable all the (multiple layers of) CSS protections there's further JS events preventing you from seeing selected text (it still gets selected & you can copy but you have no way of knowing where you selection begins or ends).
Given everything is on Github under GPL, I can only think that this must've been done as a "let's see if I can" type of personal code experiment on their personal website, rather than any deliberate effort to obscure anything. Which is cool in a way I guess...