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Re: Areweyet

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Post by Kiro » Mon, Dec 07, 2020, 7:00 AM UTC

austincheney wrote: post #23

jiofih wrote: post #3

Looks like the initial concept got lost in translation. The original “arewefastyet” was created to focus relentlessly on one single goal and be accountable by making it public. If you have fifteen of those hidden under funny URLs you’re kinda missing the point.

I would say Mozilla is doing well with speed. Firefox’s DOM traversal is thousands of times faster than chromes.

Depends on what you're trying to do. For my app Firefox is so slow that it's unusable until https://arewewebrenderyet.com/ is rolled out on all platforms.

Considering the page is not even working I'm not very hopeful.

Re: Areweyet

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Post by Xevi » Mon, Dec 07, 2020, 7:58 AM UTC

ekianjo wrote: post #30

judge2020 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Areweyet&action=his... Since it's mediawiki we can view the history of updates; Having less than 5 updates every year means this is probably only an afterthought when someone comes across an "are we ... yet" site. There's not someone at Mozilla whose only job is to track them down.

I'm not talking about updating that wiki page. Rather updating the target websites linked there, obviously.

I don't think they're updated by Mozilla, at least not the ones related to Rust.

Re: Areweyet

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Post by lgierth » Mon, Dec 07, 2020, 9:23 AM UTC

One really nice AreWeYet that's missing from this list is http://areweplayingyet.org/ from the time when HTML5 was all new and most of the web was still Flash audio players. Even includes a test suite, which is broken nowadays because audio codecs in browsers have moved on :)

Re: Areweyet

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Post by sciurus » Mon, Dec 07, 2020, 11:19 AM UTC

lgierth wrote: post #43

One really nice AreWeYet that's missing from this list is http://areweplayingyet.org/ from the time when HTML5 was all new and most of the web was still Flash audio players. Even includes a test suite, which is broken nowadays because audio codecs in browsers have moved on :)

This is a wiki, so if you know of some sites that should be listed add them!

Re: Areweyet

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Post by cloudcalvin » Mon, Dec 07, 2020, 2:06 PM UTC

AreWeTHEREYet

Re: Areweyet

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Post by identity0 » Mon, Dec 07, 2020, 2:06 PM UTC

lwansbrough wrote: post #32

identity0 wrote: post #19

What a waste of domain space (yes, I know they're abundant, but still.) areweaudioyet.com says nothing about its contents. areweasyncyet.rs had the right idea with the .rs domain name, but anyways, I feel like all of these would be better organized on one wiki, with one list for each category. Easier to search, edit, and hyperlink.

Who cares? There’s virtually infinite opportunities for domain names - unless you think there are better, more legitimate uses for the phrase “are we audio yet?” And it’s not like domain abandonment isn’t already handled by ICANN.

When I click a link, I want to know where I'm going. Where do you think "arewesmoothyet.com" will take you? If you guessed some Mozilla related thing purely from context, well you're also wrong. It's actually some WFH/affiliate marketing course. This was my point; domains are expensive and temporary for people who don't care. Because of this stupid joke, people actually interested in "Firefox Nightly hang telemetry visualization" or whatever have nowhere to go. One wiki, one page per topic, is all you need.