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Polypane: A browser for responsive and accessible development

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Re: Polypane: A browser for responsive and accessible development

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Post by marginalia_nu »

jve wrote: post #8
sleepycatgirl wrote: post #2

Ehhh.. seems it is closed source, and if so, I am not exactly happy to try it at all... Browser, handling so much important stuff, being closed source is a bit of... just no.

Is it you that audit the code or just having a piece of mind with the thought: "Someone MUST HAVE looked at that code and if I haven't stumbled upon any bad press, probably this is good to go!"? Maybe you are running some automated tools that identifies whether particular software accesses data it doesn't have to or makes network connections etc? Something being open source doesn't automatically mean it is secure. On…

If it is your intent, it's also disturbingly easy to hide behavior from code reviewers. The Underhanded C Coding Contest has a lot of examples of this type of stuff: http://www.underhanded-c.org/_page_id_25.html

I can already hear some of you starting to type a rant about how this actually is a C problem and not something that would happen in a modern language like ${YOUR_FAVORITE_LANGUAGE:-rust}; and to an extent it is true that C is especially vulnerable to this particular vector of attack, but like it or not a lot of open source software if it isn't written in C, depends on libraries that are. This includes the Linux kernel, OpenSSL, cURL. WebKit is written in C++ which might as well be C for the sake of this discussion. Other languages have other attack vectors, like the fractal-like dependency tree of NPM for example, something that has been demonstrated time and time again to be more than a hypothetical security risk.

Re: Polypane: A browser for responsive and accessible development

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Post by bennyp101 »

I used this last year when I was working on a new site for something, I ended up paying for a month, then cancelling. I used it pretty much everyday, so I think, the £9 was well worth it.

There are obviously still browser quirks that needed ironing out, but this got me a good way there in multiple screen sizes at the same time - seeing how a little change looks instantly across different screens was super helpful.

Edit: The dev was super responsive as well, I emailed about a bug that I found, and he emailed back a version to test with the fix in, with the full version being rolled out later in the week.

Re: Polypane: A browser for responsive and accessible development

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Post by elondaits »

In case someone from Polypane drops by:

Your pricing page breaks completely when accessing it from Argentina where prices are "larger" (ej. "ARS 1,037.20" for the Individual plan).

Worse, I see no way to change the currency. You shouldn't assume that because I accessed from Argentina the price in Argentine Pesos is helpful for me (it isn't). You should provide a way to change the currency (normally people put it in the footer) or not try to match currency with visitors based solely on the geolocation of their IP address.

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