VoxPelli

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by VoxPelli 7y ago
Not just an interpreter – unless there's a standardized subset that one can look for as a web developer then one can't really adopt to it (through either graceful degradation or progressive enhancement). Same reason why eg. Noscri
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by VoxPelli 7y ago
Mozilla agrees with you: https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/#webusb
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by VoxPelli 7y ago
Longer related thread: https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/108
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by VoxPelli 7y ago
Deactivate javascript: Done
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by VoxPelli 7y ago
Did you read this? https://wicg.github.io/webusb/#security-and-privacy Maybe give feedback here? https://github.com/WICG/webusb/issues/
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by VoxPelli 7y ago
Google themselves just made it possible to flash Android devices from within the browser, by using WebUSB: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2020/01/flashing-a... I interpret the definition of "dead&q
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by VoxPelli 7y ago
More on the India built version of SHAKTI: https://link.medium.com/L25lUFUo6V Runs at 70 MHz
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by VoxPelli 8y ago
I think it would be useful to differentiate between “user trackers” and something like a “site tracker”. A “user tracker” sets cookies and follows a user around, knowing what the user have or have not done before. A “site tracker” (bad word
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by VoxPelli 8y ago
One of the amazing possibilities with RISC-V will be how it democratizes chip designing and by that opens up the ability to innovate in an area of computing that so far has been reserved to a selected few. RISC-V isn't really about pri
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by VoxPelli 8y ago
If nothing else, it can at least be part of your hard drive: https://www.anandtech.com/show/13678/western-digital-reveals... The main CPU is just one of many chips in a computer nowadays – even some cables have AR
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by VoxPelli 8y ago
Samsung Internet has their own implementations of quite a few web standards - calling it a reskin isn’t very accurate
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by VoxPelli 8y ago
The monoculture is the main issue here. Google should not be happy about this. Makes it harder for them and everyone else to push web standards forward.
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by VoxPelli 8y ago
They want short term wins and gives away long term ones. I guess the Chrome team itself aren’t happy about this. Will make standards work harder for them. Better to have the Edge team build alternative implementations of standards in their
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by VoxPelli 8y ago
“Obscure Chromium forks” – like Samsung Internet and Edge? Remember: Chromium itself is an “obscure fork” of WebKit...
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by VoxPelli 8y ago
I opened an issue to ask: https://github.com/nodejs/node-chakracore/issues/611
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by VoxPelli 8y ago
Yeah, but if many people are working on the browser code and those people don’t like what Google is doing anymore, then they individually or collectively could fork the code, just like Google forked their engine from WebKit when they wanted
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by VoxPelli 8y ago
Will Microsoft use V8 as the javascript engine then as well or continue to use Chakra? If they won’t continue to use Chakra, what happens to that project then? It is open sourced and there’s work to make Node.js use it: https://g
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by VoxPelli 8y ago
Considering that Samsung Internet, Brave, Opera, Electron etc is based on Chromium and at least Samsung Internet adding new features of their own to it, there are at least many other people working on the code base. I would guess that Micro
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KaiOS on the new Nokia 8110 runs old Firefox 48(mobile.twitter.com)
2 points by VoxPelli 8y ago|0 comments
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by VoxPelli 8y ago
The initial protocol used by Mastodon, OStatus, used Pubsubhubbub (which is the same thing as WebSub) as it’s realtime delivery method. WebSub is a spec from the very same working group that published the ActivityPub spec and WebSub is acti
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by VoxPelli 8y ago
Funny that Medium then decided to buy a company that was built around WebSub and was founded by one of the authors of the spec: https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/02/super-to-medium/ Seems like they do find
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by VoxPelli 10y ago
There are plenty of add-ons that extend or alter the UI of tabs. There's eg. 780,000 users of Tab Mix Plus according to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-mix-plus/
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Webmention is a W3C Recommendation(w3.org)
4 points by VoxPelli 10y ago|1 comments
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by VoxPelli 11y ago
Examples of tools, libraries and sites that make use of this standard can be found on: http://indiewebcamp.com/webmention I'm eg. myself running a service that makes it simple to accept WebMentions on something like a
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by VoxPelli 11y ago
My impression: Free hosting: https://pages.github.com/ – currently using for a couple of sites and it works very Paid hosting: https://divshot.com/ – thinking of using for some sites – mainly because I can
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by VoxPelli 12y ago
Combine with something like https://github.com/schorfES/grunt-lintspaces to check that all code complies + some tests before or after you push your code upstream to eg. Git and you'll get a much more consistent co
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by VoxPelli 12y ago
And for those already wanting to experiment with WebGL on iOS there's always http://impactjs.com/ejecta – which will likely still be preferable for packaged games even if embedded webviews will start supporting WebGL a
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by VoxPelli 12y ago
Or you just go to Tools > Addons > Plugins and chose to have Firefox ask you before it activates the Flash plugin for a page – same functionality I think?
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by VoxPelli 12y ago
Can it handle multiple custom domains like GitHub Pages or is it $49 / month for each an every little static site you want to have on its own domain?
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by VoxPelli 12y ago
It can be configured to work almost like how you would expect a typical CMS to work – with different content types, additional fields in the forms etc: https://github.com/prose/prose/wiki/Prose-Configuration

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