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ahoge
14y ago
>stuck on XP (and therefore IE8) Being stuck on XP does not mean that you have to use IE8. You can still use the latest version of Chrome, Firefox, Opera, or even Safari.
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14y ago
>[IE8] was released in 2009! Yep, it's ancient. Chrome and Firefox are on average about 3 weeks old. IE8 is over 50 times older. >jQuery's main raison d'être might have gone out the window. Normalization was just one part. It still
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ahoge
14y ago
Every browser vendor still supports Windows XP. The only exception is Microsoft. IE9 only works on Vista and Win7. IE10 will only work on Win7 and Win8.
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ahoge
14y ago
>I think SASS [...] Based on what? Sass helps me to write cleaner, better organized code. Furthermore, it reduces typing work. It's great, really. There is a reason why more and more people are using it. Did you see the vendor prefix de
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ahoge
14y ago
>Sass is technically superior to Less; it can do a lot of things that Less cannot. That does not mean that you should use Sass over Less. No, this does mean that you should use Sass. This is how technical decisions are made. You create
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ahoge
15y ago
We don't have a lossy RGBA image format. WebP is about 20% of the size of a PNG32 image. That's a pretty big deal.
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ahoge
15y ago
Artifacts in the alpha channel are surprisingly subtle. Well, it makes sense if you think about it: The opacity is low, which makes those little details very hard to see. A gray-scale JPEG with medium quality (even if it was written by a so
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ahoge
15y ago
Oh boy, that "interview" was horrible. I now got a headache and want to punch something.
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ahoge
15y ago
Those fancy single page sites with lots of parallax effects and transformations often have 4-5 MB worth of PNGs. With JNG you can easily push it below 1 MB. (I tried this with several websites.) To make matters worse, if you just support JN
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ahoge
15y ago
We had such a format. It was called JNG. It's a JPG/PNG bastard which allows you to combine PNG or JPG color channels with a PNG or JPG alpha channel. Typically, it's around 20% of the size of a PNG32 image. Unfortunately, Mozilla killed th
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ahoge
15y ago
There will be no issues if you follow JSLint's/Crockford's suggestions. Furthermore, it simplifies the language drastically. I really don't want to deal with this kind of stuff: https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/issues/3057#issuecommen.
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15y ago
Since this isn't restricted by the GPL, you can do whatever you want. From a moral standpoint it is kinda bogus though. (Unsurprisingly, the author of that article arrives at the same conclusion.)
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15y ago
Guilty unless proven innocent? Google's text ads certainly aren't intrusive.