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by jezek2 2y ago
I would use the term "reading" than "scrolling" though. Scrolling implies that you don't really care much about anything and just mindlessly consume content.
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by jezek2 2y ago
Yeah, when I tried to implement BMP I couldn't even find a good specification. In the end it was easier to write a PNG loader/writer than deal with BMP. I've also got much better compatibility with other software. The writer
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by jezek2 2y ago
Yeah these features are overrated. You can still autocomplete based on existing words in the same file by pressing Ctrl+N, but otherwise just typing it out or copying is totally OK. I've also experienced autocomplete in NetBeans IDE so
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by jezek2 2y ago
Photographs and videos seems allright to me, maybe I'm just used to it. I like that the dark regions are visible (esp. when IPS LCDs have not that great blacks due to the backlight). I always hated it on CRTs where photographs were too
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by jezek2 2y ago
Yeah monitor controls can be a problem. You can download an utility to set it from the computer, it's much more comfortable. I'm using one from my monitor vendor, but there are also generic ones. Search for utilities that can set
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by jezek2 2y ago
With a properly set monitor and gamma setting there is no issue with switching between light and dark mode at all (even in a pitch black room at night). I use it regularly, I prefer light mode but I also use dark mode for stuff like termina
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by jezek2 2y ago
Yeah, most people use their screens with brightness cranked up and then wonder why they have all sort of problems. The trick is to set a low brightness, in my case it's a little below what you would call comfortable, but that's be
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by jezek2 2y ago
Being banned because of using a normal feature can get even more ridiculous. Playing some games on GeForce NOW (a game streaming service) can get you banned by just using the service or exhaust the allowed plays per day because it runs in e
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by jezek2 2y ago
That's because TV news is an entertainment program similar to a reality TV show. It's designed to enrage you with terrible news even when the reality is quite different and things are not that dire. When I realized it I stopped wa
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by jezek2 2y ago
If you like how easy is to embed Lua but not liking it's syntax or features you can try FixScript. It's a language I've created that has C-like syntax, the implementation is a single .c file. It's unique feature is an ab
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by jezek2 2y ago
Yeah that quote/post is related to the FixScript language and it's libraries. I consider each project individually based on it's characteristics. As for FixBrowser fortunatelly I'm not working on a full fledged web brows
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by jezek2 2y ago
That's why I've introduced the fix scripts that can fix the websites to be usable without JS: https://www.fixbrowser.org/faq#fix-scripts With it you can use it to browse most websites. And these that don't wo
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by jezek2 2y ago
If you mean Microsoft abandoning their engine then their reasoning sounded as an excuse because they clearly have the capacity to work on it. They simply decided for other internal reasons to stop and just blamed it on Google/YouTube a
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by jezek2 2y ago
Yeah I'm watching that project, it's great. Once it will be mature I will evaluate it against CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework). I plan to add an optional support of embedding CEF so that you can use it for specific tabs or websit
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by jezek2 2y ago
Yeah it processes the HTML+CSS, applies the fix scripts so web pages that wouldn't work without JS are fixed to be usable. Then it applies whitelist to all HTML elements/attributes and CSS rules. This is then converted back to HTM
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by jezek2 2y ago
That's why I've introduced the fix scripts that can fix the websites to be usable without JS: https://www.fixbrowser.org/faq#fix-scripts I've been using this approach for the last few years with good results.
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by jezek2 2y ago
I'm targetting GTK because it's the most common toolkit and it is easy to interoperate from other languages. I will also attempt to do a Qt/KDE support at some point in the future, but C++ is more complicated with binary comp
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by jezek2 2y ago
There is a plan for using CEF engine for a specific tab or website. The user would be able to make the website work with a single click and it would remember it. You would still have the advantage of a lightweight browser just in a lesser d
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by jezek2 2y ago
Thanks, fixed.
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by jezek2 2y ago
In such extreme cases a possible solution is to use this approach: https://www.fixbrowser.org/faq#gatekeepers
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by jezek2 2y ago
Good point, I've renamed it suggestions unless someone else has better wording for it :)
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by jezek2 2y ago
Yeah, the layout would still resize but it could be non-ideal in some cases as it would be based on media queries for another width. For the rotation I could process a second layout on the background and switch to it instantly if rotated. S
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by jezek2 2y ago
Yeah, I'm on the Haiku IRC. Haiku impressed me so much that even when I'm unlikely to use it as an user (mostly because I have already usable setup that I like), I've found it very good and polished. So I've decided that
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by jezek2 2y ago
Not sure how you concluded that, can you expand on it a bit? Also look at the sibling comment I just posted.
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by jezek2 2y ago
Haha I like this take. Using of C API for Cocoa is for compatibility reasons, using ObjC API is fully supported by Apple so it's not an hack in any way. Normally the used SDK dictates the minimum version of the OS and it's harder
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by jezek2 2y ago
It's mostly for practical reasons. I use Monotone for VCS which is not an active project (but a good SW regardless). Then there is the issue with having additional stuff in the repository that is meaningful just for me but I don't
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by jezek2 2y ago
Using a full browser engine with JS disabled is not the same as you won't get the architectural benefits of not having to support dynamic changes by JS at all. It allows for a much simpler one-way processing from one stage to another.
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Show HN: FixBrowser – a lightweight web browser created from scratch(fixbrowser.org)
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by jezek2 2y ago
The even more amazing thing is that it's still actively played. There is a full server every Friday night (sometimes also in Saturday/Sunday). It has got some quite dedicated fan base and I've never seen such dedication in an
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by jezek2 2y ago
Programming languages (IDEs) were always allowed as long as the code couldn't be downloaded from the internet. Local or cloud load/save is OK. An user copying it manually using a clipboard from a web page is OK as that's user

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