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I don’t think that ‘hostile’ is really fair in this case, when ‘insufficiently competent’ will do (albeit at the cost of more syllables). I am not a fan of Gra
by eadmund 2y ago
I don’t think that ‘hostile’ is really fair in this case, when ‘insufficiently competent’ will do (albeit at the cost of more syllables).
I am not a fan of Grammarly or their technical model, but I don think it’s fair to attribute malice when it is adequately explained by stupidity.
It’s been a long time since I did any front-end work: should both Grammarly’s extension and your own code use namespaced property names?
- dbushell 2y agoyep, it's in Grammarly's interest to namespace or scope their CSS in a way that doesn't conflict. Not doing it adequately goes both ways, website CSS could break their extension, or their extension could break the website.
- QuadmasterXLII 2y agoWe tried applying cunningham’s law widely and it created disastrous incentives. It’s better to assume profitable yet destructive incompetence is malice.
- chuckadams 2y agoAny sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.
- MartijnHols 2y agoUnfortunately browsers don't really provide good solutions for extensions that need to inject or change sites. Look at Google's owner in-browser translate extension, its DOM manipulation breaks many interactive apps as well. There are no tools available in browsers for it to not need to do that.