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I’m also interested in taking Reshaped further by introducing more complex, opinionated premium components on top of the core library. Not “50 landing page layouts,” but advanced components that require sophisticated CSS and React logic.

Monaspace 3 years ago

The mix and match is what convinced me to give this font a try. I’ve been using Operator Mono for years now specifically because of it’s true italics.

I’ve wanted to switch to an open alternative to Operator Mono for a long time now, and I think because of the mix and match, this finally is the one.

Draggable objects 3 years ago

The cursor is often rendered with special GPU acceleration like when using Hardware Cursor, making it as responsive as possible, but that does mean there’s always going to be a slight delay for the draggable object

Nobody is forcing anyone not to use Document.write(). The author has voluntarily run a test using Lighthouse on their website, which gives this suggestion as it is not conforming to the Lighthouse "Best Practices".

The ability to just schedule a meeting with someone from a widget on their website seems to me to offer a complete different user experience than having to email someone and go back and forth over available timeslots, even if that back and forth is somewhat automated.

The article's title is "Showing off your status and wealth makes you seem less co-operative", and the title here on HN is absolutely wrong.

I like wearing flashy clothes myself, and I would even say it has proven advantageous to cooperation in my line of work, so I was curious about this article. However, nowhere is it stated that flashy clothes make people less likely to cooperate with you. They say wearing clothes with luxury logos and signal high status does.

I’ve encountered annoying bugs like Firefox being unable to render elements when SVG filters are applied to them so they just disappear, or smaller things like extreme banding on gradients that no other browser has.

My biggest issue was (maybe still is, I quit using Firefox last year) is that on wide color gamut displays, like every MacBook Pro, it renders colors completely wrong. So it would render literally every website, save black and white website, completely incorrectly.

My main browser these days is Safari (so I’m still enjoying a lot of browser bugs). When I really need something to work or need specific de tools I switch to Chrome. For me Firefox is in a middle ground between those two browsers, resulting in me never actually using it anymore.

I don't think the point you made in the generational section of your comment is entirely valid. I do get digital goods, I myself have owned furni on Habbo. However, in that case you buy a digital good and can display it in your room (Habbo) or on your character (TF2), and Sulake and Valve make sure only people who paid for the item can show off with it.

In the case of NFTs I can just download any NFT myself and show off with it. It's like everyone being able to show off a hat in TF2, but the people having paid only have the advantage they can boast in chat about the fact they paid for something available to everyone.

When Spotify went down I switched to Youtube Music. Funny how that's still running but Spotify isn't, if it is in fact a Google issue.

I’m working on a website with WCG colors right now, and in practice you’re mostly right: Chrome and related browsers only support sRGB, and will thus only show sRGB colors. In Safari you can opt in to use display-p3 for colors in CSS, and it will display those as WCG and everything else still as sRGB. This looks amazing.

However, there’s Firefox which only supports sRGB, but then displays everything in WCG completely over saturating every single colored pixel on a website [1]. The only way to get your website to look the way you intended it on Firefox is to make the whole thing black and white.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/dloon6/solving_fir...

I’ve implemented front-end (fuzzy) search in multiple projects over the years. When the dataset is known to be small enough it’s great.

I have also seen the horrible half/half implementations you mention where it should have just been implemented on the server side, and I totally agree with you there.

However it was just an example to show that a unsubstantiated blanket statement like “responsiveness never” is just wrong. I’m not saying doing search in JS is always (or even often) better, but it can be sometimes if done well.

Yeah, you're right that simple tabs can also be implemented using css, but I still disagree. Another example: how about a simple search on a table [1].

In this case the search is instant. Without JS you would have to have a submit button and wait for the request. Even if you also added a button the JS version it would still feel more responsive, as again, you're not waiting for the request.

[1] https://www.w3schools.com/howto/tryit.asp?filename=tryhow_js...

I disagree with "responsiveness never". Imagine you have a "tabs" component on a page, each tab has some text (for example [1]). With javascript, you can hide the content of the first tab and show the second tab on click, almost instantly.

Without javascript the second tab would be a link to another HTML page where the second tab is shown. Exact same behaviour for the user, however the one with a few lines of javascript will feel way more responsive than the one without, where the user has to wait for a new page to load.

[1] https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/components/navs/#javascrip...

For the confused people using Safari who are wondering what this website is about: This website doesn't work on Safari. There should be audio when you select a file. Before you try it in another browser turn down your volume though...

For the author: There's no console error either though (which is normally the case when there's issues with audio permissions, often an issue in Safari), so I'm not sure what's wrong.