daleharvey

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by daleharvey 8y ago
Cheers, that very nice to hear > And the UI for adding exceptions is still really > cumbersome -- as a developer I wish there was some > way to whitelist domains from the notification bar > without going int
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by daleharvey 8y ago
Yup I wasnt saying we shouldnt provide .deb files, I dont know why we dont and sounds like a perfectly reasonable request. I was just replying to the comment making a point about being accessible to the average user, the average user of Fir
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by daleharvey 8y ago
"Ubuntu and Debian" "average user" I dont disagree with your point, not sure it is relevant however.
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by daleharvey 8y ago
We implemented 2 versions ago, however we wanted to do some user testing to make sure it wasnt going to break too many websites and annoy too many users (We ended up changing the behaviour based on those tests). It will ship and be enabled
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by daleharvey 8y ago
Some people for some reason write javascript without semicolons, if they do that you cant safely concatenate javascript files together since the file2 may modify file1's last expression, putting a ; at the start guarantees to complete
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by daleharvey 8y ago
They all have different remote code execution bugs so those bugs can and should be fixed. The reason to not standardise on a specific single implementation is to make sure those bugs do not become part of the web platform
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by daleharvey 8y ago
WebSQL literally just had a remote code execution bug showing exactly why it was right that browsers decided against WebSQL https://blade.tencent.com/magellan/index_en.html
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by daleharvey 8y ago
Its in about:preferences (at least it will be when fully released)
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by daleharvey 8y ago
We dont seriously think that and we are careful about how we read into statistics ...
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by daleharvey 8y ago
It sucks when you want to use feature that arent available however users wishes always trump site authors, we tested ask by default and it turned out more users wanted them blocked "Click here to play video" is also clear and easy
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by daleharvey 8y ago
We thought it could let users enable it for sites where they wanted it as a feature (netflix, youtube, games etc) Turned out to be wrong, thats why we will be shipping blocked by default
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by daleharvey 8y ago
This is built in to Firefox now, the change to the preferences the OP is talking about was implementing that feature.
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by daleharvey 8y ago
Yes, we dont have any whitelist / blacklist of sites we treat differently
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by daleharvey 8y ago
pref("media.autoplay.default", 2); // 0=Allowed, 1=Blocked, 2=Prompt https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/app/p...
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by daleharvey 8y ago
I introduced the change to 0,1,2. Not sure what happened when we first introduced autoplay but the change to 0,1,2 was so we could let users switch between enabled, disabled and ask the user. Original plan was to ask the user by default. We
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by daleharvey 8y ago
Firefox has built in date pickers now, built in upload controls I have never seen, got an example?
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by daleharvey 8y ago
He isnt going to get much Whiskey in Edinburgh. Whisky however
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by daleharvey 8y ago
> Once you start down the road of being dictator > of spending on expensive things that aren't solving > starvation, all kinds of things like space exploration, > the development of the internet, etc all become
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by daleharvey 8y ago
Did you ask for clarification in those discussions whether the 70 cents was adjusted or unadjusted? or are you assuming the one that you believe you can disprove? As I said, keep on fighting the good fight.
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by daleharvey 8y ago
> Isn't what makes HN great is that we > look at the data and seek empirical > evidence, and not just take action based on emotion? That isnt what makes HN great nor what it does. The article is refuting a strawman, the c
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by daleharvey 8y ago
Never change Hacker News (actually do change, please)
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by daleharvey 8y ago
It does, I was actually surprised .scot existed but noticed an advert for it the other day
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by daleharvey 8y ago
The fact that white supremist cults exist is saddening for a lot of people, especially when having to share space / be reminded of them. Interesting usage of the air quotes you have there.
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by daleharvey 8y ago
But what port would firefox connect to, and how would it know? Chrome doesnt do this either as far as I can tell.
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by daleharvey 8y ago
What port? If I $ sudo python -m SimpleHTTPServer 80 Then type localhost into the firefox url bar, I get the directory listing
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by daleharvey 8y ago
I'll bet $100 that OSS projects are not actually very exclusionary at all, and more actually representative of the fact that women for whatever reason, don't want to do that kind of stuff to the extent m
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by daleharvey 8y ago
The reasons that boards (and OSS projects) systematically exclude women ... is what sexism is.
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by daleharvey 8y ago
"maybe we should just tell the people that benefit from the sexism that the sexism is bad, surely they will stop"
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by daleharvey 8y ago
One of the more interesting disputes - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_War_(1859)
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by daleharvey 8y ago
The webapp now lets you post things, cant edit as much as you can in the native app but has basic filters etc

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