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by zdunn 5y ago
the es5 build will reach less and less users over time, but it has no cost for other users or even the developer. Load it with a script nomodule tag and you always have a JS fallback that covers weird edge cases like the one described in th
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by zdunn 5y ago
> but it's hardly a case of "progressive enhancement" that the author is talking about. This is definitely a case of progressive enhancement. If the site had started out with a basic form, it would have worked on the refer
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by zdunn 5y ago
It's not extra work. The site in question was for making a reservation. A basic HTML for would have satisfied that requirement and worked completely without javascript. Any additional features could have been built with javascript and
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by zdunn 5y ago
> So are you looking at Chrome (and Firefox) back to 4-5 years past (via caniuse?), and not using something if they don't support it back that far? I don't think that's whats the author meant, since they mentioned progress
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by zdunn 5y ago
No. Unfortunately, the fediverse has kind of given up on the idea of a single identity using a variety of services. Every new ActivityPub services wants to own the user account and the interactions are one way or extremely limited (likes&#x
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by zdunn 6y ago
I like the use of the fediverse for adding comments to a blog, but this is another example of conflating mastodon with the fediverse. I'm glad OP found a solution that works for them, but I hope too many people don't start using t
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by zdunn 7y ago
> But it's unclear how they plan to get website owners to migrate. And it's unclear why they should have to. OpenSearch is a standard that all modern browsers currently support. Why should a site author have to support OpenSear
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by zdunn 7y ago
The title is a quote from the second sentence in the article. The original title of the post is about the immediate change, but Mozilla is still planning to deprecate OpenSearch. Firefox definitely has supported OpenSearch. When you arrive
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by zdunn 7y ago
Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but it seems like Mozilla plans to remove custom search engines from Firefox, except through WebExtensions. So you won't be able to go to a site and easily install a search engine for it. The site aut
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Mozilla Intends to Deprecate OpenSearch(blog.mozilla.org)
116 points by zdunn 7y ago|85 comments
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by zdunn 7y ago
Yes, it's open source and the possibility is there, but it's not likely. There isn't any Florence instance yet. The other masto forks are all relatively close to mainline and aren't drastically different. Dansup has said
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by zdunn 7y ago
Even when it's completed, it will never support incoming Notes/Articles/Any other AP type.
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by zdunn 7y ago
Another major obstacle is the limited scope of a lot of these projects. Each project, excepts the microblogs, focus on a single media type and ignore others. So you still have to have multiple semi-siloed accounts to participate with variou
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by zdunn 7y ago
Yea pixelfed has always been bad at onboarding. It's been brought up before but nothing has improved except making a pretty landing page. On instances where registration is closed, the only thing you see is a message telling you that a