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Show HN: Multi-day currency converter (converts entire spreadsheet in one go)(currency.foxjump.ca)
2 points by wdrw 11y ago|0 comments
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by wdrw 11y ago
It actually starts rendering even before the entire page is ready (and fixes up the page later; well, in the current version it just re-renders the page later). For some sites (news sites tend to be particularly bad here), rendering on the
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by wdrw 11y ago
Thanks! WebKit.js could be interesting down the line, thanks for pointing it out, though I wonder about performance and standards compliance. There's also the stability issue - the page says it's "experimental/unstable&#
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by wdrw 11y ago
Thanks!
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by wdrw 11y ago
Agree on the security aspect, and injecting ads would be horrible, I definitely think there are better monetization models here. Plugins are an interesting idea, will give it some thought. Though for now, I'm thinking in a different di
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by wdrw 11y ago
Thanks. Direct site linking is on the shortlist of features to add next. Haven't thought about !bang commands, that's an interesting idea.
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by wdrw 11y ago
Interesting idea. Unfortunately FasterBadger is far from being a universal browser now, there are still many sites that it won't support or won't support well (anything that relies on more than just basic click and keyboard input
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by wdrw 11y ago
Thanks! Monetization is not fully thought out yet but I'm envisioning a freemium model down the line. Basically, either start charging after a certain usage threshold (e.g. an hour of free browsing per day), or charge for extra feature
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by wdrw 11y ago
We don't store anything you type into forms, and don't store any cookies any longer than the browsing session is alive (currently expires after 5min of inactivity). But you're right of course, as a user you have no way of ver
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Show HN: FasterBadger – browser in the cloud (pages are rendered on the server)(fasterbadger.com)
6 points by wdrw 11y ago|16 comments