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Online tracking: A 1-million-site measurement and analysis

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kbenson wrote: post #268
cm3 wrote: post #262

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have to use Gmail in static HTML mode so that it doesn't try to reinvent and fail at a text edit control for composing a mail. GitHub has been, like Twitter, grabbing more key bindings that existed before in a web browser like Ctrl-K and their comment edit box got limited in its resizability, forcing me to edit outside the website and paste into it often enough that it's an annoyance.

> I have to use Gmail in static HTML mode so that it doesn't try to reinvent and fail at a text edit control for composing a mail. I'm not really sure what you are referring to here. Gmail does attempt to give you an editor for emails, but it's extremely simple in my experience to get it to do what you want most the time. If your complaint is that you want it to just send a text email, and not a multi-part with a pla…

Re Gmail: the bug is that they replaced the browser text box edit control with their homegrown JavaScript solution which does not work at all. Copy/Past, scrolling, and many other features are broken with it. On top of that, you cannot resize it.

Re Github: The big issue is that they start hijacking keys that were free before. It's hard to impossible to sway developers to use anything but Github. I've tried and been treated as if I'm in the luddite camp.

Re: Online tracking: A 1-million-site measurement and analysis

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Post by kbenson »

cm3 wrote: post #271
kbenson wrote: post #268

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I have to use Gmail in static HTML mode so that it doesn't try to reinvent and fail at a text edit control for composing a mail. I'm not really sure what you are referring to here. Gmail does attempt to give you an editor for emails, but it's extremely simple in my experience to get it to do what you want most the time. If your complaint is that you want it to just send a text email, and not a multi-part with a pla…

Re Gmail: the bug is that they replaced the browser text box edit control with their homegrown JavaScript solution which does not work at all. Copy/Past, scrolling, and many other features are broken with it. On top of that, you cannot resize it. Re Github: The big issue is that they start hijacking keys that were free before. It's hard to impossible to sway developers to use anything but Github. I've tried and been…

> homegrown JavaScript solution which does not work at all. Copy/Past, scrolling, and many other features are broken with it.

These all just work for me. I'm not sure what the specific complaints are, maybe it's a Firefox thing, but it's not like there's a lot in chrome that FF doesn't support.

> On top of that, you cannot resize it.

A little convoluted, but there is a way. In the subject of the thread, to the right, along with the collaps all control, there's the option to open the thread in a new window. This window can be resized, and since the input is the size of the window. Although, I suspect Gmail is meant to be viewed as more of an app than a site, so if the window size is not just about composing, but use, it might be worth using it as a freestanding browser window, distinct from and sized differently than other tabs, if you aren't already. I might actually play around with doing that not that I've said it.

> Re Github: The big issue is that they start hijacking keys that were free before. It's hard to impossible to sway developers to use anything but Github. I've tried and been treated as if I'm in the luddite camp.

Yeah, that's unfortunate, and I would have hoped Github would do better. I don't really think it's the norm though.

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