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Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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Post by drdec »

stillatit wrote: post #344
aldousd666 wrote: post #161

Nobody wants a damn web view. If I'm clicking off to a link, I may want to click to another app and back in and still be where it was... If it's in a webview that's gone as soon as I click out. Yes, you can open in Chrome or whatever, open in a browser, but that's a pain in the ass to do an the time. I hate web views, in all forms.

>Nobody wants a damn web view. OP here. This might be a classic Hacker News sentiment that's not shared by normal users. Being able to instantly return to where you were without having to navigate apps is probably appreciated by a lot of people. (As would be preloading in this instance). FWIW when I first started browsing HN a common complaint was websites being mobile sized. The sentiment here was they should be ren…

> Being able to instantly return to where you were without having to navigate apps is probably appreciated by a lot of people.

The back button supplied by the OS is perfectly capable of this (at least on Android I have witnessed this)

Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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Post by drysine »

metabagel wrote: post #353
lukan wrote: post #316

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Words have meaning. He said he does not hate him. That does not mean he likes him. Hate is a very strong emotion. Dislike is a much less stronger emotion. That is not all the same. (I also don't hate Elon, but I still don't like him or consider doing buisness with him in any way)

USAID was a highly effective and efficient operation. Musk dismembered it, leading to untold misery, death, and the spread of infectious diseases. I think this is reason enough to hate Musk. Also, keep in mind that what Musk did was a violation of the separation of powers in the Constitution, so he simultaneously killed a program which saved lives while he also started the U.S. on the road to authoritarianism. https:…

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Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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Post by mapontosevenths »

buellerbueller wrote: post #407
mapontosevenths wrote: post #157

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On October 22nd the US national debt passed $38 trillion, a record number. That is the fastest accumulation of a trillion dollars in debt outside of the COVID-19 pandemic. We only hit $37 trillion in in August. Further, unless you are in the top .1% of earners, or you live on tips (I somehow doubt there are many stippers on HN) your taxes will not decrease as a result of any of Trumps "cuts". In short, you have been…

Only "stippers" live on tips? What an awful, misogynistic take.

Yes. I literally mean that only strippers live on tips. Where I'm from only strippers are legally allowed to receive tips, actually. The local Caddies went on strike, but it didn't' work out. I hear the Dalai Lama blessed them though, so at least they have that going for them.

Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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Post by slg »

nxor wrote: post #414
lovich wrote: post #397

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I am not a republican. I am not a democrat. People who disagree with me aren't silent. I just graduated college and there they made sure people like me were silent. Reddit is similar. Most of western Europe, too.

I don't know anything about you and I understand the desire to not dox yourself. However, just a friendly tip, the way you are talking about your identity and how it has led to persecution against you while simultaneously avoiding giving actual details about your identity or how you have been persecuted comes off as untrustworthy. People can tell you're hiding something and many will jump to the conclusion that is because the response here would be even worse if you were more transparent.

Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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Post by numpad0 »

elAhmo wrote: post #70

Again, anyone still using Twitter should know they are contributing to the richest man in the world actively pushing to disrupt the core fabric of our society.

Disagree, albeit with a /s. We should continue attaching increasingly more corrupted cores to the Wheatley-GLaDOS. Twitter as it is an artery IV port to inject defeatism and derangement into that group of people. Eventually the controlling core will come off and all will return to normal someday.

Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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Post by telotortium »

Arrath wrote: post #372
fusslo wrote: post #274

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I dont know if this is in the same vein, but I want to complain about how websites handle pdfs. Slack, Teams, confluence, jira, etc all open a pdf in a in-browser preview thing. Then if you try scrolling, it makes the PAGE contents bigger, but does NOT zoom into the pdf. Who thought of this? Who thought it was a good idea? Never have I wanted to open a preview of the pdf.

Seriously. I have a featureful PDF viewer I am intimately familiar with. I want it to be the default for all PDFs, ever. This gimped viewer in the browser is not what I want.

Not sure how bad it is these days, but Adobe Reader used to open pretty slowly (and if you had Adobe Acrobat open your PDFs by default, it was even slower), so an in-browser PDF viewer was appreciated for that purpose.

Also, it can be useful to keep the PDF in the context of the app you opened it in. Unfortunately, I'm not aware of a window manager that surfaces the fact that, for example, one macOS Preview window was opened from the browser, another from Slack, another from Finder, etc. Compare to iOS, where opening a PDF viewer from an app will result in a button at the top-left corner to go back to the app you opened it from.

Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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Post by rc_kas »

kypro wrote: post #418
_alternator_ wrote: post #275

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Is this … sarcasm?

I like it about the same. Maybe a tad more because some people I like are no longer banned or feel the need to censor. I'm weird though. I like 4chan and find most social media today is too intolerant and authoritarian for my tastes.

Excuse me for thinking you a hypocrite. X.com is about as authoritarian as it gets. They have banned so many people.

Just an example ..

https://fortune.com/2024/09/25/twitter-x-account-suspensions...

Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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Post by rc_kas »

morshu9001 wrote: post #411
robinhood wrote: post #66

I find it so sad that Twitter still gets traffic at all. Even if we put aside the super shady content on this platform (free speech, lol), the app, either on the web or mobile, has a sub-par user experience. I wish all the devs that I respect were using another platform.

I like the new Twitter stance on speech and some of the new features, problem is the UI is super annoying. It was actually kinda bad before too, but it got way worse.

You like the X.com stance where it bans speech from liberals and leftists?

Re: Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not

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Post by mcint »

drdec wrote: post #421
stillatit wrote: post #344

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>Nobody wants a damn web view. OP here. This might be a classic Hacker News sentiment that's not shared by normal users. Being able to instantly return to where you were without having to navigate apps is probably appreciated by a lot of people. (As would be preloading in this instance). FWIW when I first started browsing HN a common complaint was websites being mobile sized. The sentiment here was they should be ren…

> Being able to instantly return to where you were without having to navigate apps is probably appreciated by a lot of people. The back button supplied by the OS is perfectly capable of this (at least on Android I have witnessed this)

Well, Twitter/X gets this wrong too. Pretty often jumps away from what you're viewing, especially on the nav-in to a thread or nav-out from a thread actions.
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