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by bobajeff 10y ago
This a lot like asking why Lenovo uses Windows rather than make their own desktop OS.
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by bobajeff 10y ago
>Webassembly right now is useful for cases where high perf is really needed (games, cpu intensive tasks, ...), but there is no access to the dom. Just want to point out that asm.js is useful for the same thing. The initial version will b
903.
by bobajeff 10y ago
I thought copyright was about distribution of content not acquiring content.
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by bobajeff 10y ago
I'm pretty sure they're still on path to deprecate flash regardless of which plugin api it's using. That said it doesn't look like they are on path to integrate pepper-flash in any reasonable timeline. It's not even
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by bobajeff 10y ago
For how long? Sure they have a deal with Yahoo (Verizon?) that could fund them for some time. When that deal runs its course what do they have to bargain with? Their market share is currently in the single digits on the desktop and they hav
906.
by bobajeff 10y ago
Is it also socially awkward to use a gesture typing function like Swype? Because that's what many used before Speech to Text was so good and it's still faster than thumb typing.
907.
by bobajeff 10y ago
By any chance have you ever used any feature like Swype or Speech to Text? I see many older folks still use it like those 2-ways of yesteryear. Unsurprisingly they aren't too comfortable responding via text.
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by bobajeff 10y ago
Yeah, but that's just how Mozilla's PR comes out. It doesn't mean they'll abandon Gecko. I think it's more likely they'll make Gecko/Firefox into community led projects and dissolve Mozilla Corporation.
909.
by bobajeff 10y ago
I didn't know Tolfino was ended already. I'm curious as whether the experiment ran it's course or if it was resources issue.
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by bobajeff 10y ago
That's not really word for word. But I can see what you must have been thinking now.
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by bobajeff 10y ago
They'd have to be using the Batman method of deduction to reach such a conclusion based off my comment.
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by bobajeff 10y ago
It means it's not impossible for them to consider.
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by bobajeff 10y ago
However, WebKit and Chromium are. They are already experimenting on an Electron based browser called Tolfino and on iOS Firefox is built using the WebView.
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by bobajeff 10y ago
I imagine they could implement it on top of Canvas/WebGL.
915.
by bobajeff 10y ago
The context for that number is Dreamcast being discontinued after roughly one year in the US.
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by bobajeff 10y ago
No. I loved the games Dreamcast had, as did many other folks. Unfortunately, the Dreamcast didn't stand a chance because of Sega's crippling debt. Only a phenomenon on the level of Super Mario Bros., Tetris (gameboy), Pokemon, Wor
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by bobajeff 10y ago
Firefox is working on Container Tabs feature and similarly Brave has Partitioned Tabs feature.
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by bobajeff 10y ago
I use Firefox on my phone. I am more comfortable with it for privacy reasons. It's a pretty nice browser outside of that. However I'm using a pretty beefy phone whereas when I used my Moto G it wasn't quite the best browser i
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by bobajeff 10y ago
Also, Apple is older than many PC companies and have been using their own OS since before Windows existed. To expect a new company to come out with something that is competitive with Mac or Windows is to ignore the tremendous ecosystems tha
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by bobajeff 10y ago
Gimp is wonderful software. It's really amazing all of the work that's been done with it. I fully respect all of the work developers have put into open source art creation tools/libraries. Blender, Gimp, InkScape, Krita, G&#x
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by bobajeff 10y ago
Still can't see a difference with before and after material design. It's seems an awful lot like the emperor's new clothes every time I see it discussed.
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by bobajeff 10y ago
I know I'll never get a phone that's that expensive. Getting an expensive phone from Google is even less likely as they are the company most invested in selling me services and invading my privacy. If I'm to buy an expensive
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by bobajeff 10y ago
The only problem of epson is it sounds like (from the reviews) that they have bad Wireless support which is kind of a must for some people like me who use their phone to print.
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by bobajeff 10y ago
Yep, from a developers perspective there is very little difference between asm.js and WebAssembly. The main differences for developers will be the download size for compiled code will be smaller and the startup time will be faster. Outside
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by bobajeff 10y ago
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. It seems that since Firefox 2 they just kept making changes that didn't seem to really be focused on the user so much as giving the UI designers something to do. Notable examples include: * Making t
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by bobajeff 10y ago
Nano
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The tradeoff at the center of the question whether to build a Native or Web App(medium.com)
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by bobajeff 10y ago
This almost but not quite sounds like the concept of public domain.
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by bobajeff 10y ago
I'd love to see LibreOffice or Apache OpenOffice compiled to the Web (eg. asm.js, WebAssembly)
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by bobajeff 10y ago
Doesn't moving everything to https make the Web even more centralized? In order to use it looks like site's have to submit to a certificate authority now.

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