The author may get further if they put love of communication over love of language. "Rubbishing" is a worthless gerund. Is rubbish even a verb anywhere?
It's the UK equivalent of the US "trashing".
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#12The author may get further if they put love of communication over love of language. "Rubbishing" is a worthless gerund. Is rubbish even a verb anywhere?
"To rubbish" is a very common verb, at least in British English.
Is it transitive? As an American I know the word, but rubbish as a verb is utterly unfamiliar.
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#13If not all browsers support a feature, don't use it, or make it optional. It's not that hard. If you can't figure it out, ask your LLM.
The article is about how Apple is underdelivering in browser features and compatibility while pretending they aren't. It's about Apple. Apple. The ones responsible for a great many features not being supported in all browsers. What does a web dev have to do with Apple's choice? How do you improve Safari by not using features it doesn't support? What does your comment have to do with the argument the article is making…
And since outside the EU, all alternative browsers on iOS/iPadOS are just rebadged Safari, this degrades the Web on those platforms. Not entirely coincidentally, Apple has a strong incentive to encourage native apps over web ones.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
"To rubbish" is a very common verb, at least in British English.
Is it transitive? As an American I know the word, but rubbish as a verb is utterly unfamiliar.
Yes. "I rubbished his proposal", i.e. "I criticised his proposal".
(I can't imagine what an intransitive 'rubbish' would mean!)
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is it transitive? As an American I know the word, but rubbish as a verb is utterly unfamiliar.
Yes. "I rubbished his proposal", i.e. "I criticised his proposal". (I can't imagine what an intransitive 'rubbish' would mean!)
Thanks, that makes the parallels with "trash" clear. I could have chosen a better example.
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#16The author may get further if they put love of communication over love of language. "Rubbishing" is a worthless gerund. Is rubbish even a verb anywhere?
https://64.media.tumblr.com/32cb3be24eb46c26ffcaea9bbebc1c62...
Allow me to rubbish your claim. It's a common use.
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#18The author may get further if they put love of communication over love of language. "Rubbishing" is a worthless gerund. Is rubbish even a verb anywhere?
"v. [with obj.] Brit. informal criticize severely and reject as worthless: 'he has pointedly rubbished professional estimates of the development and running costs.'" New Oxford American Dictionary (2010).
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
The article is about how Apple is underdelivering in browser features and compatibility while pretending they aren't. It's about Apple. Apple. The ones responsible for a great many features not being supported in all browsers. What does a web dev have to do with Apple's choice? How do you improve Safari by not using features it doesn't support? What does your comment have to do with the argument the article is making…
And since outside the EU, all alternative browsers on iOS/iPadOS are just rebadged Safari, this degrades the Web on those platforms. Not entirely coincidentally, Apple has a strong incentive to encourage native apps over web ones.
Exactly. It's fine that Apple don't fix Safari on Mac OS where you can run anything else, but on the mobile OSes you are cooked.
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#20If not all browsers support a feature, don't use it, or make it optional. It's not that hard. If you can't figure it out, ask your LLM.
The article is about how Apple is underdelivering in browser features and compatibility while pretending they aren't. It's about Apple. Apple. The ones responsible for a great many features not being supported in all browsers. What does a web dev have to do with Apple's choice? How do you improve Safari by not using features it doesn't support? What does your comment have to do with the argument the article is making…
> What does a web dev have to do with Apple's choice?
From the article:
> But how much relief should long-suffering web developers expect? ... Web developers wouldn't have cause ... influential developers like Jeremy ... That chasm is instrumental in trapping users and developers ... That's to say nothing of the heavily requested features no developer can use on iOS
> What does your comment have to do with the argument the article is making?
The article isn't very honest, IMO. There's no need for Safari to adopt all those changes. Almost none is an improvement for the user, and certainly not for users with older browsers (there are quite a few of those, and telling them to upgrade is basically telling them GTFO).
And the author is heavily involved in Blink/Chrome/Edge. There's a section devoted to it, where he blasts nonsense such as "Chromium and Blink are explicitly organised to make and defend space for leadership, but our ability to lead in new areas is tied to quality." No, they are explicity organized to allow Google to stay dominant. It is not in the interest of the user. It is actively working against the user. Complaining about Safari only serves Google's ad kingdom.