maskros

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by maskros 4y ago
No thanks, I very much prefer my serif fonts. If you prefer sans-serif for plain html pages, why don't you change the default font in your own browser instead of trying to convince everyone to force their preference onto everyone else?
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by maskros 4y ago
Ugh, way to overdo it... #444 is WAY too low contrast. If black is too dark, I'll reduce the contrast of my monitor myself, so can y'all please stop trying to force me to squint to decipher your gray-on-gray oh-so-beautiful but un
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by maskros 4y ago
No. MuPDF only supports a limited subset of HTML5 and CSS to support basic EPUB and FictionBook2.
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by maskros 4y ago
Firefox has image rescaling that doesn't blow chunks at non-integer scales. For example scaling up the page 120% to be able to more easily read text that the designer made too small doesn't turn all the images on the page into a b
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by maskros 5y ago
RC4 works fine. The only "problem" is its large state (2048) compared to the common LCG and Xorshift PRNGs which typically have anywhere between 32 and 256 bits of state. Sqlite3 uses RC4 for its random functions.
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by maskros 5y ago
Nothing, but Java's "char" type is always going to be 16-bit.
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by maskros 5y ago
That's probably because you don't have a "real" middle button and are trying to use the awkward to click scroll wheel instead. If you want to go real old school and have a proper middle button, get an HP DY651A optical 3
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by maskros 5y ago
It may be fine to you. It's still not fine to me. The other pickers have icons to indicate what they are (calendar and clock) so why not a color palette to provide a similar hint? Needing to read the context to figure out if it's
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by maskros 5y ago
I really do not like this design. The text is a really hard to read low contrast blue-gray text on a blue-gray background. The flat design has zero UI affordances. I can't tell the difference between a highlight, a button, and a text f
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by maskros 5y ago
In Firefox's about:config you can set layout.css.scrollbar-width.enabled to false.
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by maskros 5y ago
As you mention they're not just offset differently, they're also at different resolutions. In theory you can achieve something similar by rendering at a higher resolution and downsampling with an appropriate filter, but then you&#
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by maskros 5y ago
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I personally can't stand any form of Cleartype-style rendering -- the color fringing stands out terribly. I vastly prefer a somewhat blurrier but stable grayscale than seeing a red-blue shimmer thr
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by maskros 5y ago
"Subpixel" rendering (a.k.a. cleartype) that abuses color fringing to provide higher luminance resolution only works when you have pixels made of three RGB columns. Mobile screens usually use a pentile pattern, so this trick is no
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by maskros 5y ago
5 minutes is still 4 minutes and 55 seconds too long. There's no good reason it should take 59 times longer than it ought to.
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by maskros 5y ago
I take it you don't remember the Unisys GIF patent licensing mess that prompted the development of the PNG format? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF#Unisys_and_LZW_patent_enfo...
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by maskros 5y ago
Rendering fast is nice, but when are they going to make the rendering look good? Image scaling at non-integer scales in Chrome is atrocious -- either coming out a blurry or aliased mess. I almost always need to zoom in 20% to 50% because we
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by maskros 5y ago
And why do you have to move the clock at all? Just change your working hours and go to bed later or earlier depending on the season. So much effort wasted world wide just to avoid changing the hours you force people to show up at work...
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by maskros 5y ago
Discussion groups and forums used to be useful, but now they're dying out and being replaced by undiscoverable walled garden facebook groups and discord servers...
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by maskros 5y ago
Not really, but I'm still using Basic HTML gmail! It's a very well hidden option, but the https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/ link should take you there.
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by maskros 5y ago
"Ultimately is was probably patents and the associated license costs that prevented JP2 from going mainstream, a lesson which would later be learnt." Not even remotely the reason. Lack of high quality decoders and absolutely terri
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by maskros 5y ago
That's only one way. Don't forget about the return trip.
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by maskros 5y ago
And gained nothing except more verbose syntax. The goto spaghetti is still spaghetti whether you use "goto" or "switch".
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by maskros 5y ago
It takes the same space in the flow as if not transformed, but it will take clicks and other mouse events using the transformed size and position. In your example table, transform:scale(0) will behave like visibility:hidden.
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by maskros 5y ago
I'll gladly suffer a little bit worse rendering performance and have images resized with good rescaling filters than the blurry pixelated mess that Chrome renders whenever the zoom isn't exactly 100%. It's easy to do well on
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by maskros 5y ago
Cost saving is not the purpose. The purpose of this and other things like armrests on benches is to drive away the homeless and the poor so the rich don't have to see them.
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by maskros 5y ago
Right click and Inspect the element and you can see that it's using Fira Mono.
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by maskros 5y ago
Why? To validate form fields. Who? The PDF viewer. When? Since about 2000 in PDF format version 1.3. Dependencies? Hah, no such luck. You're stuck with ES5 and Adobe's crufty JS library. There is no HTML and DOM, there are however
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by maskros 5y ago
This is also how the Tcl/Tk pack layout works.
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by maskros 5y ago
Linearized (a.k.a. web optimized) PDF files only help for displaying the first page quickly. The rest of the file is still in pretty much random access order.
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by maskros 6y ago
The font-family list in the stylesheet is both too long and weirdly specific, yet incomplete. I don't have any of these very specific Windows, Apple, or Android fonts installed on my machine, so it picks the first one it can find which

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