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Re: Show HN: Markdown New Tab – A new tab replacement to jot down notes in Markdown

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Post by jwilk »

Nokinside wrote: post #8
halite wrote: post #4

How do you interpret these licensing terms: License Copyright (c) Mihir Chaturvedi. All rights reserved. Licensed under the MIT License. If Mihir has all rights reserved, what's the purpose of adding MIT with it?

Open source license does not mean giving up intellectual property rights. You can only license the work if you own the rights to the work. MIT License starts with copyright notice: Copyright (c) Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal ....

OTOH, you don't need to say "All rights reserved" to hold your rights:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_rights_reserved

Re: Show HN: Markdown New Tab – A new tab replacement to jot down notes in Markdown

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Post by swsieber »

arxpoetica wrote: post #9

This is really cool and I'll use it. My only negative comment is that white on black is really harsh on my eyes. It would be nice if the theme could be toned down a bit somehow.

I much prefer it to a lower contrast setup. And it does mimic a terminal.

I do wonder if it's controlled by the current chrome theme, given that the tab recorded in the window is also dark.

Re: Show HN: Markdown New Tab – A new tab replacement to jot down notes in Markdown

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Post by ChristianBundy »

ghostly_s wrote: post #6
halite wrote: post #4

How do you interpret these licensing terms: License Copyright (c) Mihir Chaturvedi. All rights reserved. Licensed under the MIT License. If Mihir has all rights reserved, what's the purpose of adding MIT with it?

Isnt't "All rights reserved" typical language, even with open source licenses?

No, it's generally "Copyright " to explain where the license is coming from, but a copyright license is the exact opposite of "all rights reserved".

Re: Show HN: Markdown New Tab – A new tab replacement to jot down notes in Markdown

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Post by davidjhall »

Nice - but I wish it didn't take over the New Tab button since I use that for quick access; Since it's icon is in the status bar, why not just click on it to open a markdown tab?

*Edit: Yes, I know it's in the name of the extension :-) -- just wish I could change the default.

Re: Show HN: Markdown New Tab – A new tab replacement to jot down notes in Markdown

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Post by blattimwind »

ChristianBundy wrote: post #14
ghostly_s wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isnt't "All rights reserved" typical language, even with open source licenses?

No, it's generally "Copyright " to explain where the license is coming from , but a copyright license is the exact opposite of "all rights reserved".

No, not really. The phrase itself has no legal significance any more, anyway, but even if it did, this would basically work like an ACL:

    Allow MIT terms
    Deny *  # all rights reserved (implied)
Am I using it under MIT terms? Allowed. Otherwise not.

Re: Show HN: Markdown New Tab – A new tab replacement to jot down notes in Markdown

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Post by kreetx »

whowouldathunk wrote: post #10
vanderZwan wrote: post #3

> The code makes use of localStorage() to save the raw text and the time and date of when the edit has been made. Given that localStorage only has 5MiB available to it, you could try using the localForage library to have a localStorage-like API around IndexedDB, so that people can store even larger notes (you could even support storing pasted images as PNG blobs). Even better: is has automatic localForage fallback. A…

You realize that all of Pride and Prejudice is ~280KB, right? http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342 :)

I was going to oppose this but then checked the size of all of my notes-- two years of org-mode --and you're right, it's 1.8MB (without the .git).

Re: Show HN: Markdown New Tab – A new tab replacement to jot down notes in Markdown

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Post by LyndsySimon »

whowouldathunk wrote: post #10
vanderZwan wrote: post #3

> The code makes use of localStorage() to save the raw text and the time and date of when the edit has been made. Given that localStorage only has 5MiB available to it, you could try using the localForage library to have a localStorage-like API around IndexedDB, so that people can store even larger notes (you could even support storing pasted images as PNG blobs). Even better: is has automatic localForage fallback. A…

You realize that all of Pride and Prejudice is ~280KB, right? http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342 :)

Even so, I often store images within my online notes. Linking out to them is one option, but of course means that my notes would be dependent upon a third party host. Being able to paste image blobs into the document and store them with the text would be an advantage if I were to want to use this.

Re: Show HN: Markdown New Tab – A new tab replacement to jot down notes in Markdown

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Post by stronglikedan »

swsieber wrote: post #12
arxpoetica wrote: post #9

This is really cool and I'll use it. My only negative comment is that white on black is really harsh on my eyes. It would be nice if the theme could be toned down a bit somehow.

I much prefer it to a lower contrast setup. And it does mimic a terminal. I do wonder if it's controlled by the current chrome theme, given that the tab recorded in the window is also dark.

To be fair, most terminals I've encountered aren't white on black, but more of a light grey on black. I believe that's what OP means by toning it down a bit. While I do prefer a higher contrast as you do, I agree with OP in that this is too high.
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