soapdog

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by soapdog 11y ago
I hear you there. People are aware of this problem. The main issue is that XUL/XBL and other gecko stuff used to build add-ons (and Firefox itself) are not the easiest techology to work with. There is an effort to change that but how t
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by soapdog 11y ago
Let me clarify some things: * There is no money involved in the Pocket thing. * Pocket was added internally and not as an extension because it was easier. * You don't become a Pocket user simply by using Firefox, you need to actually u
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by soapdog 11y ago
I have a surface 3, its an atom 7x cpu. I was really worried but for my coffee house workflow of editing html/css/js files, doing lots of email and videoconferencing its great. It all depends on how you approach it. I approach min
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by soapdog 11y ago
Surface 3 and 3 Pro are pretty impressive hardware. They work pretty well and are a joy to use.
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by soapdog 11y ago
Just want to say that I have two books on Leanpub totalling about 12.000 readers and am extremelly happy with the platform! Big thank you to the Leapub team, you folks rock!
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by soapdog 11y ago
The FAQ at https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FAQ.md has an item about that. The WebAssembly has a view source implementation that translates the bytecode into a textual representation tha
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by soapdog 11y ago
don't think I agree with this. The environment of a bookshop invites smalltalk around titles and lookers. On a cafe people are much less inclined to such behavior and libraries, imho, attract a different crowd. At least where I am from
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by soapdog 11y ago
fps is not a part of UX for all apps. Usability needs to take into consideration the hardware features available. If you're running on 1 ARM CPU with 128mb of RAM with no graphics hardware acceleration whatsoever and you need to presen
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by soapdog 11y ago
And I will agree with you too. One thing to keep in mind is that Mozilla is not a company, it has no shareholders, it doesn't need to do anything besides fulfilling its mission (while trying to be sustainable) so even if the data point
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by soapdog 11y ago
The main thing is that Mozilla does not have an free and open RIL to use. Also Firefox OS is a partnership with hardware vendors and folks such as ZTE, LG, TCL don't see value in opening the bootloader. The baseband providers don'
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by soapdog 11y ago
1. As far as the effect of the window manager: this isn't emacs+X11 in 1995: the drag on CPU/ram/battery of gecko/blink will dwarf the "weight" of the windowing system. Firefox OS can actually run on a
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by soapdog 11y ago
Android 2.x was not better than Firefox OS 2.x IMHO. I have them all here and I really enjoy the Flame running 2.x, it was my primary smartphone until February. One don't need HTML5 at 60fps. One need HTML5 apps that work. Movies are n
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by soapdog 11y ago
Lumias are subsidized by Microsoft. They can sell them at a loss. Mozilla does not make hardware. Partners make hardware and they need to recover their cost. I have a couple FxOS phones in here, they all have time set just fine. I don'
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by soapdog 11y ago
Have you looked into the blackphone? Also, mozilla does not make hardware, it can't provide you with the hardware safety you need. Android is not open source. AOSP is open source but a lot of the stuff you see in a modern high-end Andr
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by soapdog 11y ago
If you think that creating a new browser from scratch is less effort than helping Mozilla then I believe that you're in for a big surprise. Let me pose a simple honest question, if not Mozilla, then who? Which major browser vendor you
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by soapdog 11y ago
Let me address some issues on this thread on the best way I can because I am really tired of all the FUD and attacks. I will first address the stuff mentioned on that changelog about the FDroid build of fennec and then I will talk a bit abo
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by soapdog 11y ago
A library is just a tool, like a hammer, you can build a shelf with it or hit your neighbor. anyway, you don`t solve that problem by banning hammers....
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by soapdog 11y ago
You can set your desired behavior on the preferences screen. You can set "your home page" to about:blank and let new tabs open to it.
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by soapdog 11y ago
Actually these libraries are used by third-party clients on platforms that Whatsapp doesnt officially support such as webOS, Firefox OS and others. Its not about spamming, its about being able to offer a decent client on platforms that are
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by soapdog 11y ago
I just wish that our airport called Santos-Dumont here in Rio had a replica of the 14-bis or the Demoiselle in it... Also, the fact that many americans are completely unaware of him and sometimes hostile when I tell his story makes me a bit
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by soapdog 12y ago
If the future is wireless then it will be full of interference. We have a tech event here in Brazil that attracts about 8k people. Its impossible to use wifi reliably during the event and sometimes even bluetooth suffers.
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by soapdog 12y ago
Or even better, if you`re in a recent version of Firefox you can click on the little "open book" icon in the address bar and enter the reader mode which looks pretty nice as can be seen in http://i.imgur.com/oiZGek
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by soapdog 12y ago
Thanks! Didn't knew that :D
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by soapdog 12y ago
New browser engine from Mozilla. One of its prime objectives is to build an engine that can leverage the multiples cores we have to day and work stuff in parallel. It still not ready for prime use but its growing really well. IIRC its built
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by soapdog 12y ago
so in your etnocentric (and maybe outdated) point of view the west would only be USA, Canada and parts of Europe? Where does Japan, NZ and Australia fit in that world view because they are in the east but aligned politically with the west..
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by soapdog 12y ago
Thanks a lot for the link. I wonder how the score would go if linux and bsd targets were present and if they allowed chrome and firefox on mac os x as well...
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by soapdog 12y ago
thanks!
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by soapdog 12y ago
We get that all browsers were pwned, but what OS where they running? For example, we can see on that post that there were three bugs in Firefox but we don`t know in what system those bugs would allow escalation of privileges and arbitrary c
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by soapdog 12y ago
There is a successor for HyperCard these days. It has a similar language, it can import HyperCard stacks, it is crossplatform (windows, mac, linux, android and iOS) and it is open source. Its called LiveCode and is available at http:/
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by soapdog 12y ago
That is an impressive statement. Can you share some link about Delphi new Android capabilities, I was not aware it could handle mobile. I think I am stuck in the 90s Delphi.

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