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Re: Link Bubble - A new browser for Android

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Post by badman_ting » Mon, Mar 24, 2014, 6:25 PM UTC

fidotron wrote: post #4

OK, this is completely and absolutely inspired. Brilliant, especially the redirect handling. The design needs a bit of polish, but the core concept is just so damn good it's blatantly going to be copied.

Yeah, I don't have any Android anythings but this concept is immediately compelling and good. One of those things that should have been obvious, really.

Re: Link Bubble - A new browser for Android

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Post by lern_too_spel » Mon, Mar 24, 2014, 9:58 PM UTC

chris_lacy wrote: post #62

lern_too_spel wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've wondered why the Twitter app doesn't automatically replace t.co links with the final destination URL itself.

I assume because they use the t.co link to verify items have been clicked for their ad services, but I can't be sure. Either way, as I user I couldn't stand that wasted time, so I went about trying to fix it.

My point is that the app can record that click asynchronously. They have full control of everything in the app, and it bothers me in the first world problems section of my brain that they haven't tackled a lot of low hanging fruit for speeding up user interactions.

Re: Link Bubble - A new browser for Android

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Post by dredmorbius » Mon, Mar 24, 2014, 11:26 PM UTC

chris_lacy wrote: post #74

dredmorbius wrote: post #43

Interesting, though I'd prefer a choice of deferred reading services. I use Readability and have a considerable library there.

Change the Settings -> Left bubble value.

Thanks. Glad it's there.

Re: Link Bubble - A new browser for Android

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Post by slashdotaccount » Tue, Mar 25, 2014, 12:21 AM UTC

wmt wrote: post #30

EddieRingle wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The design needs a bit of polish, but the core concept is just so damn good it's blatantly going to be copied. Chris Lacy (the author) delayed the release because he was encouraged to patent the idea. Looks to me like that was a good move.

Indeed, patenting ideas is an excellent way to prevent free software from usign those ideas while proprietary software can just get the licensing costs from their profits.

Patents and free software aren't necessarily incompatible. For example Raph Levien provides a royalty-free patent grant to software licensed under the GNU GPL that implements his patents.

http://levien.com/patents.html