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Re: Firefox 39.0 released

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Surprised by the inclusion of "CSS Scroll Snap Points": https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/scroll-snap... It basically allows to do scroll hijacking [1] without any JavaScript, just like this: http://blog.gospodarets.com/demos/scroll-snap-full-screen/ [1]: http://trentwalton.com/2013/10/23/scroll-hijacking/

Woah I did not expect it to work that well. I always hated scroll-hijacking webpages, because ~1% of them did it right.

Re: Firefox 39.0 released

#22

If you're wondering what "unicode 8 skin-tone emoji" is about, here you go: http://unicode.org/reports/tr51/#Diversity Hmmmm, I'm on ff 40.0a2 and they don't render for me: http://emojipedia.org/man-with-dark-brown-skin-tone/

This is bullshit.

Re: Firefox 39.0 released

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post #22

If you're wondering what "unicode 8 skin-tone emoji" is about, here you go: http://unicode.org/reports/tr51/#Diversity Hmmmm, I'm on ff 40.0a2 and they don't render for me: http://emojipedia.org/man-with-dark-brown-skin-tone/

This is bullshit.

The Unicode consortium kinda ran out of useful things to do and has been filling up the address space with whatever comes to mind. Don't worry about it. All the old stuff still works fine.

Re: Firefox 39.0 released

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post #8

Surprised by the inclusion of "CSS Scroll Snap Points": https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/scroll-snap... It basically allows to do scroll hijacking [1] without any JavaScript, just like this: http://blog.gospodarets.com/demos/scroll-snap-full-screen/ [1]: http://trentwalton.com/2013/10/23/scroll-hijacking/

I'm torn.. I dislike scroll hijacking and in a sense don't want support for this practice, _but_ at the same time I assume this will never go away and then this seems less hacky and easier to make it work without ruining use on various input devices and settings.

For example, I tried the demo and saw how the pages jumped to the nearest page if I middle click and pulled down to go half way. Corner cases or anything more complicated than simple wheel flips often don't seem to work if you hack your own solution. Now the browser seems to have a much better idea of what's going on. So.. That's nice. We'll get hijacks but at least they seem to be much more robust? But at the same time I hope this won't make more designers hijack scrolling or go overboard with this. :\

Re: Firefox 39.0 released

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If you're wondering what "unicode 8 skin-tone emoji" is about, here you go: http://unicode.org/reports/tr51/#Diversity Hmmmm, I'm on ff 40.0a2 and they don't render for me: http://emojipedia.org/man-with-dark-brown-skin-tone/

I only recently discovered that Unicode characters can now have colour in them, and frankly, I'm disappointed that we're adding complexity to an already hugely complex topic.

Re: Firefox 39.0 released

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post #25

If you're wondering what "unicode 8 skin-tone emoji" is about, here you go: http://unicode.org/reports/tr51/#Diversity Hmmmm, I'm on ff 40.0a2 and they don't render for me: http://emojipedia.org/man-with-dark-brown-skin-tone/

I only recently discovered that Unicode characters can now have colour in them, and frankly, I'm disappointed that we're adding complexity to an already hugely complex topic.

Unicode characters don't have colour in them, much as they do not have a shape either. The Unicode standard does not specify the exact visual representation of any codepoint.

No, fonts can have colour in them. This isn't a new thing, colour fonts have been around for decades. However, they're particularly useful for emoji.

Re: Firefox 39.0 released

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post #22

If you're wondering what "unicode 8 skin-tone emoji" is about, here you go: http://unicode.org/reports/tr51/#Diversity Hmmmm, I'm on ff 40.0a2 and they don't render for me: http://emojipedia.org/man-with-dark-brown-skin-tone/

This is bullshit.

How so? If you're white, perhaps you see no problem with making everyone's skin white.

But the billions of people who aren't white might have a problem with it.

Re: Firefox 39.0 released

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And yet there are still issues on my Sandy Bridge system with display corruption even with the latest Intel drivers.

Also has anyone else noticed that Firefox is no longer keeping the page state when navigating back? For example on Reddit go to the comments section, minimize a few comments then navigate to a link then go back and none of the minimized comments remain minimized, in Firefox prior to 38 things worked correctly.

Re: Firefox 39.0 released

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post #3

How much does Project Silk improves scrolling performance? Can you "feel" it? Scrolling/motion performance is the only thing that is keeping me away from FF at the moment - Even dev tools are getting amazingly good.

For what it's worth, I've just updated on OS X and scrolling feels just as janky as ever.

Maybe that's because OS X makes the scroll wheel consider acceleration (move the scroll wheel quickly, you scroll more, move it slowly, you scroll less), unlike Windows/Linux?

Re: Firefox 39.0 released

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post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is bullshit.

How so? If you're white, perhaps you see no problem with making everyone's skin white. But the billions of people who aren't white might have a problem with it.

The color was not specified before, so it was up to the font creator. I think yellow was the most common choice. The test page shows all the icons as blue in my browser. I'm not against the new changes, but I think the old version was more popular in Asian countries than anywhere else, and wasn't really pro-white.
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