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KwanEsq
9y ago
If you have a mouse with a middle button (or just one with a left button and a keyboard with a CTRL key) you've been able to do this since probably Firefox 1.0 by clicking thusly on the refresh button in the target tab.
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9y ago
The aurora tree/part of the release cycle has gone away, but dev edition needs a separate update channel from beta, and was already using "aurora", so it was obviously less work to keep the name around just for the channel ra
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KwanEsq
9y ago
And for those curious, here's the issue for bringing the feature back in the new debugger: https://github.com/devtools-html/debugger.html/issues/4750
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KwanEsq
9y ago
It's actually had it for years (probably even always, almost certainly since about 1.5) via middle-clicking the refresh button.
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9y ago
One can also do better with the right choice of characters: ╲ ╱ from random import choice; print(''.join(choice(('╲', '╱')) for i in range(10000)))
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9y ago
You'd need [required] instead of [minlength] for :valid to work. The other option is :placeholder-shown, to style no-input normally, but it's newer and not as supported.
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9y ago
I'd argue the editor rather than the reader. Readers can't be too specialised, they have to work with a large variety of programs, so it's not going to know it's looking at code, let alone parsing it, unless the editor
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9y ago
The key is the hash, which isn't sent over the wire when loading a page. Now granted it's accessible via location.hash in the client, but one has to trust Mozilla not to do that.
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9y ago
Rust had an RFC at one point that considered removing (some) block comments, which generated a good argument in their favour (see also the longer comment 5 replies later): https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull
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9y ago
Isn't it only other JavaScript interpreters/JITs specifically it forbids?
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9y ago
The music does end after the first minute, fortunately.
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KwanEsq
9y ago
Thank you so much to alerting me to this, I was completely unaware. Switching to Stylus now, which has the nice side effect of making me readier for 57.
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10y ago
The flat surface with waves that look a bit like ^ but wider and curvier. Seen close to major islands like Windfall and the Forsaken Fortress Example: http://zeldawiki.org/File:Zeldawindwaker01.jpg
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10y ago
>I guess we should just hope that engines will optimize their own promise implementations. Firefox/Spidermonkey have just ported their Promises completely to C++ [1] which will help performance and enable future optimisations. [1]
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10y ago
This link is actually the first time this happened last August, not the second event referred to in the subject article. This page has static images of the current event: http://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/galleries/lunar_transi
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11y ago
>(standardised via w3c of course) Why? They are irrelevant for that now. It would be standardised through the WHATWG.
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A Deringing Filter for Daala… and Beyond
(people.xiph.org)
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11y ago
"I don’t know exactly why the Audio Data API lost, but I suspect it had something to do with the idea that JavaScript is too slow or high-latency to generate sample data in small buffers on demand." I think it lost because Web Aud
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11y ago
You are misunderstanding the language being used. Add-ons are brower extensions like the examples you provide. Plug-ins are Flash, Silverlight, Unity Web Player, and the Java plug-in. Only the going away of the latter is being called for.
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11y ago
>Firefox, conversely, doesn't have the canvas.toBlob() method, so if you want to convert a canvas to a Blob, you need to use canvas.toDataURL() and convert the dataURL to a Blob instead. blob-util does this under the hood. I don
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Drag Elements, Console History, and More – Firefox Developer Edition 39
(hacks.mozilla.org)
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A Competing HEVC Licensing Pool
(xiphmont.livejournal.com)
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12y ago
> But on the web, you can't do your fine-tuning, so it's auto or nothing -- and "nothing"/unjustified text typically has less annoying failure modes than auto-hyphenated/justified text does. Can fine-tuning
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12y ago
Isn't that what http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Events/#keys-codevalues is for? Hmm, caniuse doesn't seem to have it, I'll have to look for info. Edit: ah, and looks like Fx38 will be the very firs
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12y ago
>We are still, despite our shortcomings, the most successful experiment in self-government in history. I'd like to know what metric they are judging that by.
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12y ago
Whilst I am not endorsing the view, I would like to point out that Operation Northwoods–style false‐flag attacks are not a necessary reading of the grandparent's post. It would also be satisfied by the government/security service
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12y ago
Assuming this source is up to date[1] (and I'm reading it right), then the intersection of chrome ES6 features and Typescript ones is an empty set, while the Typescript ones are a strict subset of Firefox's ES6 features. [1] http
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12y ago
I just so happened to see such a Firefox extension[1] announced[2] on planet.mozilla.org the other day, though it might be a bit more manual than you are envisioning, and I haven't personally tried it out, yet. [1] https://a
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12y ago
No, it didn't. Re-read the article. The sending of MAC addresses occurred in a different, later operation with a new method (custom Firefox exploit code), rather than the Flash based IP-only method that is the focus of this article.
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12y ago
Original discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8632749
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