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myfonj
6y ago
I think that product template could use either `aria-hidden="true"` or `aria-label="bear"` HTML attributes for screen readers sake (and reconsider title and OG properties); not an expert in this area nor having SR at han
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That was just an example based on some comment around here -- quite surprising for me. Personally I even mostly prefer SO for majority of "quick/shallow/how-do-I" technical questions and I think my google persona is wel
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6y ago
Site search provided by author seems like the best option on the first glance, but sadly in my experience those in-house full-text searches are most of the times way inferior than simple `site:` limited google search. If not in relevance t
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6y ago
Anybody else here remembers times when Google search supported blocking domains in personal setting? Along with so many advanced search operators? Oh, days of yore… Anyway, you can still use prevailing `site:` operator with "minus"
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6y ago
> please nobody actually use this on a site I might visit Hard to force others to not use it, but you can override those declarations in your browser's user style sheet so it will not render them (that's what user styles are fo
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7y ago
Thanks for filing and discussing it. It's sad that this change landed from issue initially specified as "browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll should default to true" but actually ended up as "let's toss this option away
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7y ago
Also when I'm clicking something that looks like text field (what Awesome Bar looks after all), my primary intention is to type there something. Even if my my intention was to select some text and I expected it, I don't expect it
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7y ago
So is this the reason for `browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll=false` in about:config to cease to work (on Windows)? Not fortunate for me; I liked this option to NOT have it selected after single click. Triple click is for this kind of selecti
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Exactly. "Command palette" is the name of this user interface element known from many editors, app launchers and OS app integrations and is proven to be extremely efficient. It almost seems like the article is reinventing it and
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Speaking of ancient CSS features that looked overwhelmingly promising but never caught up as successfully as they deserved, it is probably worth mentioning User Styles. CSS was initially meant as a "dialogue" among User Agent, Us
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7y ago
Firefox (on Windows) never lost the menu bar: if you press F10 or Alt (or Alt+some letter from menu) it will pop from top. Style switcher you are referring to is located in View > Page Style, in English localization quickly accessible by
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Yes, it feels somewhat natural to craft this kind of style sheet. As I've just found out [1], there is even more of those than I'd expect. [1] @dohliam's excellent "Drop-in Minimal CSS" collection mentioned here
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Isn't this the exact usage CSS was intended for? Also for reference, behold W3C Core Styles (since 1997): https://www.w3.org/StyleSheets/Core/ https://www.w3.org/StyleSheets/Core
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7y ago
This makes sense, but in this case I'd guess that from economical point of view Medium is tied to author more than GitHub is (provided author does not pay either of them directly): I assume Medium is receiving some revenue that could b
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7y ago
If this person is persona non grata for U.S. and GitHub blocked him in order to comply to OFAC policy, can we expect this article to be removed from Medium for same reason?
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7y ago
On this note there is this interesting "Responsive Pixel Art" project [0] that quite resonated here in the past [1]. [0] https://essenmitsosse.de/pixel/ [1] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=esse
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7y ago
I think "adaptation and derivative works" could apply even for simple format conversion like Markdown (what you authored) to HTML (what you see) or even image thumbnails of pages (?)
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7y ago
I'm quite surprised no serious "programming font" to this days didn't come with something improving camelCase readability: making ligature for each lowerUPPER combination with slightly wider center gap and narrower first
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> [gripe:] - Dragging tabs [in Firefox] didn't immediately drag out a window like in Chrome Luckily (for me) this still holds and I see it as an advantage over Chrome; this pulling effect is amusing to look at (and I must admit that
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7y ago
I've ended up using neither tags nor "topic" folders (besides few folders in toolbar): for retrieval I rely on titles (names) and URLs alone. Every time I bookmark something I evaluate its title and URL, look for missing ter
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I completely agree that it's a pity such nice feature isn't known better among wide audience and yes, Firefox bookmarks management ("Library") UI leaves much to be desired. [2] Just one reminder: in Firefox there is &quo
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It is quite "highlighted": after typing exact keyword it is the first suggestion below URL bar and after typing space and some query it reflects this by displaying "domain.tld: query" there, seams good enough to me.
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7y ago
There is ancient feature of regular bookmarks to serve as "search keywords" [1]: just give it a some keyword and use `%s` in place of URL you want to substitute with value encoded as URI fragment (IIRC, or `%S` to be used more ver
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Yes. See this comprehensive resource [0] or sieve trough those linked at the Head project [1] - there are still bunch of tags (especially if you cannot place images into the root path) and myriad of images with varying degree of importance.
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7y ago
There is, but nowadays it is quite generous. Firefox for example by default accepts up to 64KB long bookmarks [0]. [0] via https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/b6fa95/bookmark_lo...
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For exactly same purpose I am grooming self-contained HTML Sandbox "datauri app" [0] living in my bookmarks that too retains its state in location (#hash) so is copypastable to other browsers. I like to load preview to isolated i
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That's sad. While understandable if you were overwhelmed with poor half-hearted "stray" PRs, still I doubt that any random developer will sift trough open PRs to add his two cents of knowledge about "invisible" (unp
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It seemed quite straightforward to me last time I wanted to update something: there is boilerplate (schema [0]) JSON for feature / subfeature that lists all browsers in current documentation set with `{"version_added": null}`
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> RSS traffic trickled down to almost nothing. Could you elaborate how you measured that? While Google trends depicts decline in search frequency so it may correlate with actual usage, it could as well mean that the "RSS market&qu
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