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What does the X axis in the "browser support" graphs mean? It seems to go up to 30, and has fractions along the way, both of which suggest it isn't a simple version number. A percentage of something, perhaps? edit: I guess it's market share? but which measurement?
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How can a web browser or even native OS determine if a user's wifi network is metered? I agree it would be nice in theory if there was some kind of "dollars per MB" API, but I don't see how web browsers could implement that in practice. I work on a podcast app. When people are downloading hundreds of MB or more daily, they emphatically want control over when downloading takes place. In practice, almost all of them ar…
Through DHCP, the DHCP server can set different DHCP-options to notify clients what type of connection it is. For example: Android Phones set up to be a hotspot will set DHCP option 43 to a value indicating that it's a metered cellular connection.
I really wish there's a way to check what other popular browsers can do without having to install them and open up the website.
This is really awesome :) The truth is that the 'web' is really becoming the cross-platform application architecture. Just a few years back I despised the very idea of this -- I want to program in my favorite language, not JavaScript (no matter how nice it is these days). I'd love to write applications that can act like native ones while also being cross platform (and use multiple threads at that!). The fact that Web…
The truth is that web is getting deeper and deeper into identity crisis. And if any platform is further away from having coherent architecture, it is web.
I expect the same to happen in the future on both desktop and mobile platforms, despite the FUD.
What does the X axis in the "browser support" graphs mean? It seems to go up to 30, and has fractions along the way, both of which suggest it isn't a simple version number. A percentage of something, perhaps? edit: I guess it's market share? but which measurement?
It looks like version number, which seems like a really dumb metric to put on the X axis.
I really wish there's a way to check what other popular browsers can do without having to install them and open up the website.
Still, people think the web is going to die and native apps are going to rule.
That does not mean that web based apps will (or should) replace native apps. There will always be enough applications where native will do the work better, even as processing power grows, but to say the web is going to die is just wishful thinking on the part of those who want it to die. Ain't gonna happen.
Why is the Network Information API still a thing? I don't feel like it should even be listed on this website, as it's an anti-feature. It only encourages discrimination on connection types, as it doesn't expose the only important part: is this connection metered? Developers are going to use this API to serve me higher resolution assets over my metered WiFi & Ethernet connections (assuming they are unmetered) and lowe…
How can a web browser or even native OS determine if a user's wifi network is metered? I agree it would be nice in theory if there was some kind of "dollars per MB" API, but I don't see how web browsers could implement that in practice. I work on a podcast app. When people are downloading hundreds of MB or more daily, they emphatically want control over when downloading takes place. In practice, almost all of them ar…