epitactic

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by epitactic 8y ago
Nice job with prerender.cloud! This looks like about the idea I had, but you took it a lot further, beyond the prototype stage into an actual product. If you want to borrow the image map idea, feel free :). I'm not planning on developi
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by epitactic 8y ago
Thanks for the link, this Kantu XClick and XMove image-driven "real user simulation" project opens up some interesting possibilities. It also points out a significant limitation of Cloud Browser's imagemap-based architecture.
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by epitactic 8y ago
Thanks! That was essentially my envisioned use case, as well. Not only for devices that won't run JS but those where you might not want to. For example, a lot of news websites are surprisingly JavaScript heavy, slow and buggy, not some
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by epitactic 8y ago
Indeed, image maps seemed to be the simplest way to implement this, fitting into my goal of reducing the complexity of the content rendered on the web client. I still use CSS, but only in one place (for showing the cached timestamp in the c
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by epitactic 8y ago
Hello Hacker News, I made this as a quick weekend project after getting inspired by Ian Bicking's _The Firefox Experiments I Would Have Liked To Try_ submission last week, discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?
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by epitactic 8y ago
The cloud browser concept is intriguing, as a quick weekend project I whipped up this simple demo: https://gitlab.com/epitactic/cloudbrowser - using Google Chrome instead of Firefox, but it runs headless on a VPS and l
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Show HN: Cloud browser – headless Chrome and image maps(cloudbrowser.website)
69 points by epitactic 8y ago|31 comments