dangoor

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by dangoor 15y ago
Firefox is single process (mostly – some plugins run in separate processes), but multi-threaded. There's one thread for the main UI, but as much work as possible is done asynchronously off of that thread. Browsers are very complex software
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by dangoor 15y ago
FWIW, JavaScript is getting a Set type (and a Map as well). You can try them in Firefox Nightly. JavaScript is also getting the ability to change property lookup behavior on objects using Proxy (available since Firefox 4). Browsers are movi
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by dangoor 15y ago
I built something like this in 2005[1], got distracted[2] and still wish I had the tool today. My database was organized around links rather than feeds/items. Two stories that included links to the same thing were considered to be talking a
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by dangoor 15y ago
I saw the same issue in Firefox (Nightly).
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by dangoor 15y ago
Another option is source mapping, allowing the browser's tools to map from the JavaScript that is running over to the original source files (with line and column mapping). Some support for that has landed in WebKit, and we have patches for
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by dangoor 15y ago
Firefox has been shipping Proxy since Firefox 4 and uses it a great deal internally. Proxies are an awesome feature!
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by dangoor 15y ago
It sounds like the Trello API is coming along. Has anyone made an Alfred plugin or command line tool for adding cards? Quick keyboard-based capture of thoughts is important for keeping focused on what I'm doing.
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by dangoor 15y ago
FWIW, I recently wrote a novel in Scrivener and with very little tweaking it did a nice job converting for print and ebooks (and it allows a fair bit of tweaking). All depends on your needs, of course, but I was pleasantly surprised at the
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by dangoor 15y ago
There are many that compile to JS: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...
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by dangoor 15y ago
Right. Mozilla supports quite a variety of things that make the web a better place. Firebug is one of them.
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by dangoor 15y ago
Mozilla is putting quite a bit of effort into apps right now. "App tabs" in the browser is definitely one small step in getting a nice total ecosystem in place for developers. FWIW, when I looked at Raven, my initial thought was "it's a bro
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by dangoor 15y ago
Good question http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2011/10/04/searching-for-m...
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by dangoor 15y ago
I listened to this over the weekend. It was entertaining, but can be summed up with "Sometimes you quit too early, sometimes you quit too late" from somewhere in the middle of the program. Not a lot of hard data, but some interesting anecdo
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by dangoor 15y ago
FWIW, someone is working on an implementation for Firefox. There was just a blog post on HN the other day about it.
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by dangoor 15y ago
I realize that my reply didn't address the fact that camera access took a long time. You're right... I don't think it's because of a boneheaded committee, though. I'm just guessing, because I have nothing to do with this directly, but I'm g
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by dangoor 15y ago
They had data binding? I don't remember that (that's a pet feature of mine ;) From what I've seen, things don't really start in the committees. They start with people at browser vendors scratching their own itches and eventually escape out
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by dangoor 15y ago
"It's already a problem. In fact, it is the problem. The web application 'platform' is poor, incoherent, and its proponents highly resistant to the sweeping changes that would be necessary to compete with a native, proprietary platform like
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by dangoor 15y ago
Who needs to imagine? That's how it was a decade ago.
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by dangoor 15y ago
I'm not sure there will be a dominant platform again.
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by dangoor 15y ago
While there are a couple of minor bits I agree with, overall I think Joe's off on this one. The web has five organizations pushing really hard on it at this point (Mozilla [my employer], Google, Apple, Microsoft and Opera). The web almost h
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by dangoor 15y ago
Julian Viereck created Skywriter/Ace's keybinding system with the requirement that it had to be able to handle Emacs and vi style keybindings. Those of us working the most on Skywriter were actually fine with the default bindings, but we
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by dangoor 15y ago
I happen to know the story, since I was there for much of it. IIRC, Ben and Dion originally went the canvas route for: 1. fun 2. performance 3. total control over rendering I was never personally involved in the rendering part of Bespin. I
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by dangoor 15y ago
I have to disagree. Yes, Kindle reader came out using Web SQL DB, but that spec is dead and for good reasons. I don't know how far along IE is at supporting IndexedDB, but it won't be long before Firefox, Chrome and IE all support IndexedDB
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by dangoor 15y ago
IANAL. MPL basically says "do what you want, but if you change any of the files we distribute, you must release the source to those changes under the MPL."
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by dangoor 15y ago
It's hard to say what Steve meant by "laptop sales". I'm assuming that your interpretation (unit sales) is probably correct and Apple is definitely not that large. Their growth is certainly outpacing the industry, so maybe Steve is off in t
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by dangoor 15y ago
You will not be annoyed. Promise :)
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by dangoor 15y ago
http://blog.mozilla.com/devtools/2011/05/25/the-relationship... tldr; no. Firebug is an independent (but with Mozilla's support and blessing) project and we're also building some great tools that will ship with the browser.
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by dangoor 15y ago
I haven't looked at the browser support for Edge animations, but I'm guessing they're supporting earlier IEs, which limits what they can do. It would be cool if they had a switch to render for only modern browsers.
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by dangoor 15y ago
Ironically, Eclipse doesn't want a browser-based Eclipse either. http://www.eclipse.org/orion/ Their Orion project takes a very different approach of integrating services from all over the web and includes GitHub integration out of the bo
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by dangoor 15y ago
Actually, getting the code from the server (and caching it) and storing data locally is already a solved problem. Take a look at IndexedDB, which is already supported by Firefox 4. The idea here is to think of apps as being built on web tec

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