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Re: Nyancat on the touchbar

#121

My big issue with the touch bar is it will be a far awkward reach for me when I use my desk with external monitor with a external keyboard. It's really only useful when I work outside my office. :(

Same for me, but - anecdotally - I've noticed a ton of people working with their laptops and external monitors in a stacked arrangement lately. They don't use a secondary mouse or keyboard, and instead keep their laptop in front of them with the external monitor above and behind it.

Re: Nyancat on the touchbar

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Don't give anyone ideas.

Of course it'll be done. Here I am with an iPhone 6s, and on the average site I see less content than I did on WAP - many sites are 80/20 or worse on mobile. How long until hardware manufacturers include dedicated advertising displays in exchange for cheaper up-front hardware?

Then people could just physically cover up the extra screens.

Re: Nyancat on the touchbar

#123

So... just about the touchbar and not this particular project: The touchbar is on the keyboard, almost perpendicularly (and many times at an obtuse angle) opposite to the screen. So I have to move my head up and down all the time. This is not an issue with the regular keyboard because it has physical buttons which don't change their meaning, so I have memorized the layout and I can use my muscle memory. To avoid movi…

It should be legal to murder someone for touching your laptop screen. I can't think of a bigger co-worker foul than that. Making a screen that people are supposed to touch would be an unthinkable crime.

Hear hear. This is one of the reasons why I am not even vaguely interested in a touchscreen laptop.

Re: Nyancat on the touchbar

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post #18

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Don't give anyone ideas.

Of course it'll be done. Here I am with an iPhone 6s, and on the average site I see less content than I did on WAP - many sites are 80/20 or worse on mobile. How long until hardware manufacturers include dedicated advertising displays in exchange for cheaper up-front hardware?

Amazon Kindle with ads on the lock screen is already offered as cheaper hardware than without ads.

Re: Nyancat on the touchbar

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> If you want to memorise all the key combinations, you're fine. So they didn’t remove an entire row of function keys that were used for exactly that purpose?

The function keys are still there, you can invoke them by holding down the fn button just as before.

But can you feel (without looking) whether you hit just F3, or F3 and F4?

Re: Nyancat on the touchbar

#126

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Of course it'll be done. Here I am with an iPhone 6s, and on the average site I see less content than I did on WAP - many sites are 80/20 or worse on mobile. How long until hardware manufacturers include dedicated advertising displays in exchange for cheaper up-front hardware?

Tip: if you have another browser, turn off JS in Safari. Use Safari until you really need JS, copy paste URL, Chrome, go to clipboard link, retry. It's laborious, but it beats getting bent over the knee by mobile ads.

Or just keep Javascript on but install JS Blocker 5 and choose what scripts run. It quite amazed me how much sites try to fingerprint your browser, especially with canvas fingerprinting.

Re: Nyancat on the touchbar

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Do you have a mouse or a touchscreen? You can already do this pretty succesfully: http://staticresource.com/theremin.html (Note: android, and computer users can use this righht away, but iOS users will need to add this page to their homescreen before Apple is fully convinced that the users DOES want to hear sounds generated via the web audio API. Seems silly, but Apple doesnt trust that users know what they want)

But I don't want to hear sounds generated by the web audio API. So this behaviour seems entirely correct to me.

Well if you are writing your own HTML and JS instruments, chances are you do want to hear sounds generated by the web audio API.

Are the users of Safari and Mobile Safari so different that on the desktop its totally fine (as in any browser) but Mobile Safari users need it blocked unless they take action to hear it? I cant think of any reason to single out the users of Mobile Safari with such a feature.

Re: Nyancat on the touchbar

#128
I was worried that the touchbar will not have any legitimate use. On a bit more serious note, is there anything that this could do that is worth the pain of removing the esc and fn keys from the user point of view? I can hardly think of anything.

Re: Nyancat on the touchbar

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post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't give anyone ideas.

Of course it'll be done. Here I am with an iPhone 6s, and on the average site I see less content than I did on WAP - many sites are 80/20 or worse on mobile. How long until hardware manufacturers include dedicated advertising displays in exchange for cheaper up-front hardware?

You can run ad blockers on iOS now. Purify is a good one. They only cover Safari, not web views, but that's still a lot better than nothing.

Re: Nyancat on the touchbar

#130

So... just about the touchbar and not this particular project: The touchbar is on the keyboard, almost perpendicularly (and many times at an obtuse angle) opposite to the screen. So I have to move my head up and down all the time. This is not an issue with the regular keyboard because it has physical buttons which don't change their meaning, so I have memorized the layout and I can use my muscle memory. To avoid movi…

I already type on my iPhone without looking at the keys. You don't need tactile feedback to touch type. If you use the though bar in a particular app enough, I imagine muscle memory will help you out.
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