everydaypanos

By Safari, I meant the engine, not the app.

Are there any people who actually prefer no PWAs at all over Safari-engine PWAs?

Why Safari can’t just launch from a Home Screen bookmark even if the user has chosen another “default browser”?

PWAs are already a separate “island” of storage and share nothing with Safari App…

Microsoft does it all the time with Edge on Windows.

Click on any book other than the first. Resize the window. Awkwardly jumps to first book..

Your non-technical family members and friends will likely fall for these at some point. For their sake, disable them.

As the famous proverb says "give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime". The best way to "fix" phishing attacks and malware is by making people more "technical". The only way to eliminate these phenomena is by educating people about what a Push Notification really is and that you simply don't have to click it.

The Web needs to be a competitive platform for apps next to the closed and "gated" App Stores. I think that we should not dumb down web browsers to simple page viewers.

During the deflationary two year COVID pandemic they made zero price reductions.

If I remember correctly they even removed C1 instances thus increasing the price of their “cheapest” option from ~€3 to ~6€.

Today, all the “cost savings” that were supposedly made during the deflationary era are gone and we have to “adjust” again to even higher prices.

Been waiting for this for so long. Especially the BroadcastChanel feature since there is currently no way for PWAs installed twice on the Home Screen to “share” data between them. Hope that BC fixes that

reCaptcha and translate are also down. Even search is affected it is super slow.

Imagine how much code like this is inside our "lightweight" browsers.

All the code reviews that passed this on to production make you wonder how competent these browser makers actually are..

I think that the browser should not treat every input field as a personal info form for the current user. There are plenty of cases of web apps I can think of where disabling autocomplete is best user experience overall.

Any ARM providers close to the Scaleway's pricing?

Nice guide and love that it included WebPack for modern development.

I think the SVG with prefers media queries is not covering all cases, for example Chrome Anonymous dark “theme” and other user selected “themes” are impossible to check how they paint the background of the favicon area. So..the perfect solution in my view is still somewhere out there..

I wonder how much of Wave's death was from resistance from inside Google(GMail team, or even other execs). Fear for the destruction of GMail even from another Google product.

He lost me when he described Canada using a dictionary-like wording but also adding some pretty personal perspective. Describing an entire country as Socialist seems super opinionated to me.

Client-side navigation is quite tricky to get right - since there is no definition of right. Browser back buttons and scroll positions between back and fourth page loads are not standards-based things and the only way to study them is by just using the browser.

The only fashion that I have come to hate in client side navigation is endless scrolling on product pages. In my view it is completely pointless and hitting the back button NEVER returns you to the exact point you were. On product pages I think page-based pagination is the only way to go. Amazon does that. I think only feeds are a use-case where infinite scrolling makes sense.

P.S. I wonder if client-side ajax calls are GZIP compressed🧐

I can't understand why would somebody order something from Google and then use the chat "support" app to ask where their package is. All packages have tracking numbers and as soon as they are "on their way" you just contact the Courier or use their site to track it precisely. Why escalate it to the seller who has no idea where the package actually is?

You launch vanilla Chrome and you wait 45 seconds to be able to do anything? How is that even possible

How much of what you say is due to the “extremely complex” rendering engine and how much to just “simple” app design?

Seems so sad that Mozilla is literally begging people to give Firefox a try. Even if someone believes that the browser Game of Thrones seems to go to Google, I cannot see how anyone would settle for the second-best choice especially when everything is FREE..

They plainly admit that Firefox can just hold it’s own and it is still NOT the fastest and best browser experience out there.

When I launch Chrome I just get this feeling that it is a super lightweight desktop app that manages a ton of tabs efficiently.

I had a girlfriend who when faced with the choice of Chain-Coffee v Small-Shop-Coffee she’d at first choose the Chain-Coffee but as days passed she’d choose the SmallShop-Coffee more and more.

When I asked her why she chose the one with clearly no particular expertise in coffee making(they were also right next to one another) she’d tell me that she wanted to support the independent small player and not the big corporate chain.

I always wondered how efficient those theories, like the learning theory are, with complex intelligent beings like us. Sometimes we can even ignore all conventional models and just do smt because of philosophical belief. Which in turn developed by other unknown factors..

(When she was alone at University or Downtown she’d mostly hang out to the local big Chain-Coffee, but when faced with an easy choice of two different types of coffee shop one right next to each other she’d after some time make mostly the “philosophical” choice)

Although a firm NO-WWW believer this is hilarious because it is not the same as hiding http(s):// this is technically speaking an alternation of the url.

Still..with Google's horrible AMP efforts this seems nice :)

I still have a hint that the larger and super-human scales that you refer to also lack a meaningful architecture in them. They don’t have something in them that would make a thinking sentient being like us(or me) find joy in participating.

That bettering of efficiency in super-human collections of stuff seems just like any other organization-it just strives for survival aka efficiency in a boring meaningless way.

1 Years years ago when I was learning web development I bought a TLD and just copy-pasted Amazon’s log in page to just check how it works. Amazon somehow found out about this and Google punished that TLD after that incident and it just couldn’t go up in rankings after that.

If I remember correctly they had even put that TLD on sites that report/list “phishing” sites so if you Googled about that TLD you would also get the “they are fraud” results.

2 I think that most pro users just New-Tab everything and go from there. Seems to me that going in n out search results all in one tab is kind of slow too.

How could Google be terrified of something which as you say was already happening?

I am also pretty sure that Andy’s actions have absolutely no relevance here.

I think that this first sentence is actually super true and maybe even captivating to read the rest..

Google CEO I think has admitted publicly that Google’s mobile-phone efforts at first were just by a simple fear of Apple :)

Isn't it ironic that things like Mickey Mouse are super copyrighted that even if you name your son that you will get in trouble. On the other hand things like historical references(Macedonia) are up for grabs by anyone and they even attract supporters of the type "self naming is a right"..

I live in Northern Greece/Macedonia and I can confirm that we were never taught history with this level of detail.

It seems so fascinating to me that if you focus hard enough to a simple sentence of a modern history book you can uncover battles and kings and strategies and winters and politics.

+1

Anyone knows why the script-tag functionality is gone?

I have always used PHP + EmberJS via script tags so it seems very unfamiliar to start using NodeJS instead :)

"Can we help you start your company? Join Stripe Atlas"

This made me think all the interview was an ad for Stripe Atlas. Marketing ploy to lure you into the culture(we help you make the company + tell you all the inside secrets for the second step - funding).

Irony is, we have applied to Stripe Atlas for a "Delaware" company as they say, and it got rejected like in a few hours. So IDK for whom this is actually intended.

The truth of the matter is that e|p|i|c are actually the same characters just borrowed from one language to another.

If I give you a piece of paper with "epic -> epic" you would say "it says epic two times".

If we give the same piece of paper to a Russian he will say "it says <insert Russian meaning here> two times". The Russian guy may even say it says epic(as in the English meaning) because there might be no "epic" word in Russian.

In short: It all depends on the reader how he interprets the characters e|p|i|c. The same should apply to computers too.

The lowercase a is the same character in French, Russian, English etc. The fact that some decades ago some computer inventors decided that there are four types of "a" depending on the language - that's completely broken in my opinion.

I don't think and I don't see any use of embedding the belonging language to every character. For me, this is obviously like an encoding "flaw".

So the ones that actually have to do something are the OS vendors. If they don't then ICANN or browser vendors should do something..

Why is it even allowed to register "epic.com" with e|p|i|c cyrillic when it is already registered with english/ascii??

They look exactly the same, they are the same characters just borrowed from one language to another..

It should just be illegal to register same-character domains. All other solutions that force browser vendors to "do something about it" are implying that the web is in english all other languages are just addons.

It is not a matter of just being shut down due to low volume. The rates that you get depend on the volume. So the "back up" gateways end up so expensive you have no interest in even keeping them around.

From my experience you end up being tied pretty hard to pretty one provider and as long as you make fraud prevention yourself you can stay in business. Problem is that if you do all the fraud prevention stuff yourself then why do you need braintree for? To just invoke a .charge(100, "EUR")??

The first thing they ask you when you open an account is how much volume you have.. There is no such thing as a "backup" payment gateway.

The first few weeks of operation the "backup" gateway would suspend your account for not providing the necessary volume of sales.