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by oever 11y ago
Very nice to see activity on Abiword. The enthusiasm of the author is evident. Abiword does have support for ODF, but it could be better. Abiword 3 uses ODF 1.1. At the last ODF plugfest quite some issues were found [1, end of page]. There
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Document Freedom Day(documentfreedom.org)
1 points by oever 11y ago|0 comments
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by oever 11y ago
Yes, even with js enabled they are broken. airhorner reacts to mouse clicks visually but plays no sound. (Debug console says: "EncodingError: The given encoding is not supported.") voice memos needs cookies or local data but does
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by oever 11y ago
The website about 'progressive web apps' [1] has 3 demo apps. None of them work in Firefox 43 on Linux. The apps require JavaScript but fail to use the <noscript/> tag to tell the user. I've an iPad 1 on which I ca
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by oever 11y ago
To me the best compromise between using regular javascript and having type safety is to use closure compiler. With closure compiler, you can write a 'header file' which defines the functions of the libraries that you use. Then you
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by oever 11y ago
be sure to wear flowers in your hair
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by oever 11y ago
No, that is not the point. The post here is about Skype not working on Linux. If Skype is the only way to reach a person, that would be a real issue. Luckily nearly everyone still has a normal telephone number on which they can be reached.
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by oever 11y ago
I'm a happy user of VOIP. Instead of using skype, I use SIP for which there are many computer programs. A good convenient program is CSipSimple. https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=com.csipsimple
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by oever 11y ago
I've programmed only tiny bits in Go and Rust, so I will not comment on those languages. My main programming languages have been C++, Java, JavaScript and XSLT. Going from that background to Haskell is mindblowing. The language is very
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by oever 11y ago
And contrary to the document on the parliament website [1], that link points to the document in PDF, ODT, HTML and XML. [1] http://www.tweedekamer.nl/kamerstukken/brieven_regering/deta...
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by oever 11y ago
Please complain to them [1]. They are required to publish that document as ODF, not DOCX. Alternatively PDF or HTML could be used. Using DOCX in Dutch government is against the standard [2], which is ODF 1.2. [1] http://www.tweed
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by oever 11y ago
The password store in Yesod contains nice documentation about how it works. I found it very enlightening and reassuring to read: https://github.com/yesodweb/yesod/blob/master/yesod-auth/Yes...
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by oever 11y ago
There is WebODF, which is 100% pure client-side JavaScript. http://webodf.org/ http://webodf.org/demo/
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by oever 11y ago
It's coming. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Emscripten
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by oever 11y ago
The repo is here https://github.com/cperryk/slatemail I've no idea how to run the app. It seems to be a graphical node.js application.
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by oever 11y ago
He's not giving it all at once. He announced that he plans to give 1-2% of his Facebook wealth per year.
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by oever 11y ago
You make a very good point. Currently, the largest threat to long and happy life is a destroyed habitat.
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by oever 11y ago
It's really hard to run you own mail server. Much harder than a web server. This is bad for freedom on the internet. http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2015/09/15/email.html
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by oever 11y ago
Is there a library for Scala that is as powerful as Persistent with Esqueleto in Haskell? Persistent is a DSL for the database model and Esqueleto is a library for writing SQL that is validated against the database model at compile time. h
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by oever 11y ago
I wrote a self-contained svg application in 2009: http://www.vandenoever.info/blog/2009/05/01/cubetest.svg Then and now it works fine in chromium and firefox. Edit: here is a link to background informa
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Dutch government puts more weight behind open standard for office(forumstandaardisatie.nl)
46 points by oever 11y ago|6 comments
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by oever 11y ago
WebODF is a fine addition to that list. http://www.vandenoever.info/blog/2015/05/30/typing-together-...
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by oever 11y ago
CSS, SVG, XSL-FO and ODF use a point of 1/72 of an inch. TeX uses a point of 1/72.27 of an inch.
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Centimeters and Points are the best(vandenoever.info)
1 points by oever 11y ago|2 comments
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by oever 11y ago
What is the file format? WebODF has all the mentioned features, includeing collaborative editing, and in addition it uses OpenDocument Format as the file format. http://www.webodf.org/demo/
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by oever 11y ago
Nothing is universally acknowledged on the internet. Especially not when it comes the usefulness of explicit data types. Lazy web hobbyists abandon their code before they get bitten by lack of data types.
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by oever 11y ago
Similar projects exist that use OpenDocument Format as the underlying file format. https://github.com/adityab/Manticore https://github.com/kogmbh/kotype
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by oever 11y ago
That's not anonymous. It talks to cloudflare.com, bootstrapcdn.com, fonts.googleapis.com, mxpnl.com and cloudfront.net in addition to snapmeet.io. None of the connections are over https and there's probably quite some cookie sendi
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by oever 11y ago
It's not a governmental institution but an NGO which unites many local governments and other participants. http://www.zonatlas.nl/home/over-de-zonatlas/ They use high resolution 3d surface information (e
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by oever 11y ago
The continual code clean-ups are very nice to read about. With the added interoperability improvements LibreOffice will surely increase its market share.

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