The provided github link 404's. But this one works:
https://github.com/guillaumepotier/Garlic.js
Another link worth knowing about -- perhaps even more so, since there are demos there:
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#102Hi there, github has some difficulties with the page url and tend to show some weird 404 :(
Please, could you update the link of this post to http://garlicjs.org?
Thx!
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#103As a side note do not use the Bootstrap class .well together with .row cause it overflow because of padding. Create this structure: div.row > div.well > the content.
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sure you can quote stats all day, but it depends on your target audience. If you are running a tech website (such as HN/TC/Reddit/etc) you will see a HUGE portion of visitors using browsers like Chrome/Firefox and hardly any IE. However if you are building websites that regular people use they still use XP and IE7... so much so that it can account for 10-30% of your website traffic.. It really pains me when HTML fram…
Oh of course IE8 isn't going anywhere, but there is no reason at all for people to be on 7. Can you explain why someone on XP would move off 6 but not go all the way?
Grandkid/nephew/neighbour's kid was around to do one upgrade but not the other?
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
what about when the browser crashes?
Sure, if you think thats a valid use case to build for. I don't.
Why not? This is a plug-in aimed to help in the event something happened with the browser window. Besides accidently closing it there aren't many other scenarios where this plug-in would be useful.
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#106it's gooooone!
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#107I think the desire for this kind of project is very reasonably based, and it looks like you have done great work on most of the implementation. I have one gripe with it, though. It would be nice if the documentation mentioned that garlic.js requires an HTML5 browser with localStorage implemented. Remember, there are people who are still using Internet Explorer 6 and 7, and these browsers are incompatible [1]. This is…
I disagree to a certain extent. I don't believe in catering to the possible 5% [1] market share that will not upgrade their browsers. Anything that strongly suggests people to upgrade is better, imo. I don't care for the entire notion of including everybody when it calls for more code bloat and makes the code more difficult to maintain or upgrade. [1] http://theie7countdown.com/
> I don't believe in catering to the possible 5% [1] market share that will not upgrade their browsers
Please remember there are large numbers of users who cannot upgrade the browser they use at work, and there are valid reasons why their IT departments do not let them upgrade.
If your webapp is for entertainment, social, or otherwise not useful for corporate, government, etc. users then you're probably right. But otherwise you may be punishing users who have no choice in the matter, hate IE6 as much as you do, and use Chrome at home.
I agree about code bloat, etc., and if there's a clean way to maintain a separate branch or plugin to support IE6/7 users that's great, but if a library doesn't support them, I simply can't use it given my userbase.
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
It would also be nice if the documentation mentioned that it requires jQuery.
Hmm, what does jQuery provide that is so essential that someone decides to add a dependency this big for something so simple? It seems that everything requires jQuery these days, even when a 5-line for loop would do.
JavaScript is an extremely bare language that largely lacks a standard library. Libraries like jQuery make code easier to write and easier to maintain and sometimes even result in smaller downloads for the user.
Ii your website uses the Google CDN to download jQuery new visitors will often not even download jQuery when arriving at your website because their browser probably has it already cached from visiting one of the dozens of other websites they have visited.