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Re: LCD, Please

#21

Post by butz »

donatj wrote: post #15
solardev wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It feels like there's one of these "doesn't work on FF" threads any time there's a post about a halfway interesting web app. Intentional or not, they really contribute (in my mind at least) to the overall perception that Firefox is truly dead. Nobody even tests for it anymore, or worse, accepts that it's fine to be broken on FF.

I think part of the reason nobody tests for it anymore is just because web standards have largely gotten so good. I don't often test in FireFox these days myself largely in part because it just hasn't been a problem in years. I'm old enough to remember the days when every change I made I had to roll through multiple versions of IE all the way back to 6, and different things would be broken in different versions.

It makes me shudder to remember when we had to include some outlandish workarounds just to make shadows work on IE6, not to mention custom web fonts.

Re: LCD, Please

#22

Post by [deleted] »

capitainenemo wrote: post #8

[EDIT] If anyone is wondering why it is rendering poorly in Firefox with Resist Fingerprinting enabled, that's because this page seems to serve the game from a random CDN on a different host. https://v6p9d9t4.ssl.hwcdn.net/html/8469963/index.html in my case. Because the canvas is attempting to read pixels, which can be used for fingerprinting, Firefox is blocking this. But because it is being done in an iframe, there…

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Re: LCD, Please

#23

Post by burkaman »

capitainenemo wrote: post #8

[EDIT] If anyone is wondering why it is rendering poorly in Firefox with Resist Fingerprinting enabled, that's because this page seems to serve the game from a random CDN on a different host. https://v6p9d9t4.ssl.hwcdn.net/html/8469963/index.html in my case. Because the canvas is attempting to read pixels, which can be used for fingerprinting, Firefox is blocking this. But because it is being done in an iframe, there…

What issues are you seeing? It works fine for me, and I'm pretty sure I have all the fingerprinting protections turned on.

Re: LCD, Please

#24

Post by NikolaNovak »

solardev wrote: post #10
capitainenemo wrote: post #8

[EDIT] If anyone is wondering why it is rendering poorly in Firefox with Resist Fingerprinting enabled, that's because this page seems to serve the game from a random CDN on a different host. https://v6p9d9t4.ssl.hwcdn.net/html/8469963/index.html in my case. Because the canvas is attempting to read pixels, which can be used for fingerprinting, Firefox is blocking this. But because it is being done in an iframe, there…

It feels like there's one of these "doesn't work on FF" threads any time there's a post about a halfway interesting web app. Intentional or not, they really contribute (in my mind at least) to the overall perception that Firefox is truly dead. Nobody even tests for it anymore, or worse, accepts that it's fine to be broken on FF.

I feel first we need to validate the original premise that there's something wrong with this game in Firefox.

I'm running Firefox, with containers enabled, with ublock origins (and as such "somewhat privacy conscious over and above the defaults"), and this works fine for me.

There could be any number of things that cause an individual issue, which may or may not be related to Firefox itself :-/

Re: LCD, Please

#25

Post by nom »

I've heard that custom LCDs are relatively cheap to order in low volumes. This one has quite a lot of segments, but feels doable.

If we can find some premade game-and-watch style cases with buttons and battery compartment.. this could be made into a product or a hobby kit, without too much expertise or upfront cash. Hmmm.

Re: LCD, Please

#26

Post by BaculumMeumEst »

noree wrote: post #17

Lucas Pope's other game, Return of the Obra Dinn, is also excellent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_of_the_Obra_Dinn

for some reason i just couldn’t get into it. i love the aesthetic, but i hated the pacing; the game's frequent unskippable walking sequences and menu transitions between puzzle solving felt like a slog.

papers please is one of my favorite games of all time, though, and i enjoyed other first person puzzlers like the witness and portal.

Re: LCD, Please

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Post by Knee_Pain »

nom wrote: post #25

I've heard that custom LCDs are relatively cheap to order in low volumes. This one has quite a lot of segments, but feels doable. If we can find some premade game-and-watch style cases with buttons and battery compartment.. this could be made into a product or a hobby kit, without too much expertise or upfront cash. Hmmm.

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Re: LCD, Please

#28

Post by nemetroid »

capitainenemo wrote: post #8

[EDIT] If anyone is wondering why it is rendering poorly in Firefox with Resist Fingerprinting enabled, that's because this page seems to serve the game from a random CDN on a different host. https://v6p9d9t4.ssl.hwcdn.net/html/8469963/index.html in my case. Because the canvas is attempting to read pixels, which can be used for fingerprinting, Firefox is blocking this. But because it is being done in an iframe, there…

It sounds like you have privacy.resistFingerPrinting enabled, an experimental feature which is disabled by default:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-protection-agai...

Re: LCD, Please

#29

Post by wombat-man »

solardev wrote: post #13
mattl wrote: post #3

I'd love to see this on the Play Date console. https://play.date

Wait, this thing is STILL in pre-order? When is it actually supposed to ship? I first heard about it when the 1st gen Switch came out, and then silence for years. I assumed it'd come and gone, but it hasn't even actually shipped yet...? Are people still expecting it to, or is it considered vaporware by this point?

Got mine recently. Nearly an entire year after ordering. It's alright.

Re: LCD, Please

#30

Post by chungy »

NikolaNovak wrote: post #24
solardev wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It feels like there's one of these "doesn't work on FF" threads any time there's a post about a halfway interesting web app. Intentional or not, they really contribute (in my mind at least) to the overall perception that Firefox is truly dead. Nobody even tests for it anymore, or worse, accepts that it's fine to be broken on FF.

I feel first we need to validate the original premise that there's something wrong with this game in Firefox. I'm running Firefox, with containers enabled, with ublock origins (and as such "somewhat privacy conscious over and above the defaults"), and this works fine for me. There could be any number of things that cause an individual issue, which may or may not be related to Firefox itself :-/

Indeed, I have strict mode enabled, uBlock Origin, containers, and the game works completely fine.
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