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by catapart 1y ago
FWIW: I'm moving from my current win10 desktop to linux of some kind. I've been running mint on my laptop, in preparation, and I think I'm pretty comfortable with it (really hoping that the slowness that builds up over time h
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by catapart 1y ago
Fantastic news! Awesome that the Signal team was able to deliver another first-class security feature.
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> your argument is overcomplicated > lets open the can of worms that is "IQ" Like...is this a bit? I'm missing a joke, right?
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I appreciate your understanding!
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by catapart 1y ago
Ah, so the website had bad UX? I think we've found the issue!
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by catapart 1y ago
Thank you! Feels great to hear from another dev whom clearly has some shared experience with me. I can't count the screen-reader and keyboard-navigation based tickets I've had to field, but when it comes to translations, I haven&#
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by catapart 1y ago
I made myself clear to the other development professionals I was talking to as evidenced by their feedback. The people who seem to have the most trouble understanding what I'm advocating for are the people who seem to only be taking a
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by catapart 1y ago
Ah yes "design less" by "forcing selectability where it is not a feature by default". I swear, the platitudes are what kills me. Design and publish a site used by professionals and let me know what kind of feedback you g
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by catapart 1y ago
You know, I've often wondered how much simpler UX would be if this had been the case from the start. Hard to make any predictions, but one can optimistically dream...
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by catapart 1y ago
I don't even understand it; I just can recognize a character and type it in. The only time I have to do so is in looking at poorly designed firmware sites and stuff like that, but I manage when the developers do not accomodate for me.
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by catapart 1y ago
Same way I do: with your OS's on-screen keyboard.
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by catapart 1y ago
> that doesn't play well with automatic translation. I think I found your problem. Not sure why you think the solution is to make everything work worse for keyboard users.
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by catapart 1y ago
And you also can't understand the icon? And the context? And the translations I provided?
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by catapart 1y ago
I don't think you understand the technical applications that the website is advocating for. I can appreciate that the technicalities are frustrating, but the web works the way it works, for better or worse.
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by catapart 1y ago
I know you're not asking me, but I would really love the "copy" feature added to ALL context menus. Right clicking a standard anchor element gives you the "copy link" option, but you don't get to copy the word
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by catapart 1y ago
Give me an example of a real-world use case where this caused you an issue, and I'll show you where their UX design is poorly made, rather than a need for selectable text in a clickable element.
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by catapart 1y ago
Use a mouse to click inside of a word link (like "threads") in the HN header. Try to drag to highlight. Note that the link tries to drag instead of highlighting. This is default behavior for anchors because of the issues that it w
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by catapart 1y ago
isn't selectable because it breaks the UX for keyboard-only users. Has nothing to do with "thinking" anything. It's about testing with accessibility parameters and knowing* what practical problems occur. If you really
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by catapart 1y ago
Why would you want to translate "My Account" into another language? And, more pertinently, why should I support it, at the expense of keyboard-only users?
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by catapart 1y ago
Good UX means including translations for supported languages, not telling the user "do it yourself by highlighting content". Not translating entire articles to a language you don't support has the easy remedy of letting peopl
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by catapart 1y ago
When text becomes selected, instead of allowing the control to work as expected, the focus cannot move between the elements as expected. It breaks the UX for keyboard-only users. I can appreciate that this is not something everyone has to c
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by catapart 1y ago
As a web dev, I fully agree with this, but with a huge exception: clickable text. Anything that is meant to be read as content should absolutely, without fail, be selectable and copyable (assuming appropriate permissions). But stuff like ta
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by catapart 1y ago
And if the car was fully self driving and capable of seeing debris that was clearly seen by two humans (whom tesla claims have inferior eyes), it could have taken the opportunity to change lanes and avoid the obstruction. They want to prete
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by catapart 1y ago
Ah, yes! This seems like exactly the kind of minimalist exposure I was trying to find, to avoid the emscripten dependency. Thanks!
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by catapart 1y ago
Got a rec? The reply to you is talking about a component framework, rather than actual vanilla html/css access. I haven't seen anything, personally, that allows real-time, direct DOM interaction.
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by catapart 1y ago
Every time I see one of these whiny, self important articles, I feel more vindicated in my choices, than ever. Bluesky is great (and flawed!), and I couldn't care less if whiners don't feel like their type of politics is welcome.
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by catapart 1y ago
As someone who wrote an entire indexedDB wrapper library just to understand the "micro task" issues that are referenced in this blog post, and THEN dedicated a couple hundred words of my readme to explaining this footgun[0], I am
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by catapart 1y ago
This is very cool! My one gripe would be the one-card, one-game situation. I understand why it would be done, but I also remember growing up in the 90's and there was no point where I was happy that I had to switch out the games. It&#x
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citation needed on that "best" designation. It's certainly A place to hear about breaking news. Maybe the best place to hear about elon or tesla news fast. but anything else? Been keeping up with the gamedev industry just fin
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by catapart 1y ago
Same! This is really awesome! I'm hoping it's generalizeable enough to do with something like Game Informer, or other magazines. Seems like the underlying tech is just "load unreasonably sized images without performance issue

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