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by Yaggo 6y ago
I don't think there's any mention of the new browser being open source? Not sure why you used GNOME Web as an example. Safari is based on webkit and actually webkit is originating from Safari (forked from khtml ages ago).
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by Yaggo 6y ago
Yeah. There's probably all kind of obscure use cases for ASCII, but generally, any text meant to be human readable should be Unicode encoded, whether you call it "string" or "blob".
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by Yaggo 6y ago
Sámi people still exists, sure, but their culture has changed a lot, naturally. They live in modern houses, use snow mobiles and helicopters for herding the reindeers (many work in "regular" jobs), buy most food from shops just as
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by Yaggo 6y ago
Light emitting diode as a fundamental technology is reliable and has very long lifespan, if the application is designed and implemented correctly, including thermal management and power supply. Unfortunately many consumer LED bulbs are chea
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by Yaggo 6y ago
IMO, YLE actually publishes pretty good content, watchable via streaming. Commercial channels are mostly full of shit. 163 €/year makes ~14 €/month, a fair price, if you accept that public broadcaster is a tolerable compromise.
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by Yaggo 6y ago
I remember the old times when there were inspectors going from door to door, often ex cops. Legally you weren't obligated to open your door, but if you did, and they heard a voice of TV, an invoice did follow. It was just crazy system.
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by Yaggo 6y ago
> I love Linux desktop Which "Linux" desktop are you referring to?
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by Yaggo 6y ago
3.x/4.x was the golden age for KDE. I never felt home with Plasma.
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by Yaggo 6y ago
Promising specs! I'd rather have multi-day battery life than fancy graphics, maybe even an e-ink display.
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by Yaggo 6y ago
https://wpewebkit.org/
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by Yaggo 6y ago
> I accept but don't save any cookies except certain whitelisted ones. That's basically what happens in private mode (incognito), I guess. Would be nice if browsers used private mode by default, and you could "whitelist&qu
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by Yaggo 6y ago
Sure, there exists an extension for pretty much everything, but it's not an ideal situation that you need to install an extension for stuff like this. Also, having too many extensions slows down the browser (because they need to parse&
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by Yaggo 6y ago
> There is also `Do Not Track` header but it is not respected by most of websites. The naivety of this approach almost makes me laugh. I mean, it's good intention, but really we cannot just trust the "bad" party. Active cl
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by Yaggo 6y ago
I definitely should! The software situation for Rpi4 is a bit messy, because of ongoing 32->64bit transition, but not all stuff works there yet with mainline kernel. (From a hobby perspective it's a bit sad that some of the older AP
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by Yaggo 6y ago
I recently introduced chess to my kids (6 & 11 years old). They both immediately got hooked and we have been playing several games every night. It's high-quality time for you & kids (no screens!), and also teaches the kids to t
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by Yaggo 6y ago
> With this API you cannot “measure” anything, you can only check what was the result of an already computed and pre-heated flow. That's a valid point!
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by Yaggo 6y ago
Totally off-topic, but I recently made a super-simple OS installation for Raspberry Pi 4, based on archlinux and contaning only a Weston desktop, virtual terminal, and HW-accelerated browser (H264, WebGL etc). I immediately got hooked on th
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by Yaggo 6y ago
You probably wrote tongue in cheek, but it's a good point. The fact that there are "JS land" and "CSS land" is one of the problems. There should be better integration between the two, eliminating the need for "
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by Yaggo 6y ago
No doubt there's overlapping complexity in web technologies (e.g. flexbox and grid), partly because we can't re-invent everything from scratch. Multiple players probably also play big role here, single-vendor technologies are easi
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by Yaggo 6y ago
> Browsers don’t have direct measuring methods and require stupid workarounds, that’s it. Oh? There are the old-school e.offset{Top,Right,Bottom,Left} etc methods for measuring the DOM stuff, and there's Visual Viewport API (experim
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by Yaggo 6y ago
I agree that there's lot of benefits and certain elegancy by sticking with CSS layouts. CSS transforms are really just an visual effect, not affecting the layout. That's why they are super fast (typically HW accelerated by GPU), b
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by Yaggo 6y ago
I wish browsers had built-in mechanism for showing the cookie banners. After all, cookies are just an HTTP header sent from server and it's up to the user-agent to handle it. There could be a standard header such as cookie-privacy-poli
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by Yaggo 6y ago
Yes, IE was very innovative in its heyday (up to version 4). But back then there was no strong standard body (sort of status quo) like we have today, and due to Windows monopoly they could come up with stuff which was never even intented to
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by Yaggo 6y ago
It's probably true that it's difficult to decide what should be removed without breaking the browsing experience too much. Still, I bet that the engine still contains lot of code for legacy stuff from the era when we wrote HTML su
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by Yaggo 6y ago
> It's also the one that uses the least battery life Battery life has always been very top priority for Apple. That's the reason why Apple stopped supporting Flash and basically killed it (thank gosh).
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by Yaggo 6y ago
Sorry for nitpicking, but it's 2020 and OS X has been called macOS since 2015 ;)
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by Yaggo 6y ago
It's somewhat a myth that Safari is less standard-compliant. True, Safari's release cycle is slower and Apple has the motivation to prevent PWAs to become too good, but in many things Safari has always been very innovative browser
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by Yaggo 6y ago
Mozilla should launch a stripped-down version of Firefox, with all the past 20 years' legacy support removed. No quirk mode etc. Just bare minimum implementation of modern core web tech. How fast would it be?
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by Yaggo 6y ago
It's not that Firefox isn't an excellent browser on its own, but on macOS Safari rises the bar very high if you care about details (most people don't).
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by Yaggo 6y ago
EU will probably never give English any kind of official status of "linqua franca", because Germany/France/Spain/Italy etc. big countries with long cultural history just won't accept it. Smaller nations are muc

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