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Polypane, The browser for ambitious web developers

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Re: Polypane, The browser for ambitious web developers

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Any free alternative?

The top comment from the last time this was submitted pointed to an open source (AGPLv3) implementation https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29340887 > but I don't know how they compare feature-wise

To save other readers a click: https://responsively.app/

Re: Polypane, The browser for ambitious web developers

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> People try to make money out of anything. So...software developers who mimic the real world. If I walk by a fruit stand, a grocery store, or a booth at a fair selling homemade crafts; I don't expect anything to be free. It is the exception when they are handing out free samples. In the software world, too many expect everything in the store to be free (as in beer). Each software product represents real effort on so…

If I walk by a stand, it cost them something to give me their homemade crafts for free(they have less to give away) With software development the only thing lost with giving it away for free is the opportunity cost that someone might have paid for it. So I don't think physical products and software can be compared like that

Do you think that software comes out of thin air? It takes time and effort to develop and maintain software. The fact that it doesn't cost to reproduce it doesn't mean it doesn't cost to create it in the first place.

Re: Polypane, The browser for ambitious web developers

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The question is that it seems to emulate many things, but what doesn't it emulate well? It looks like it's built off chromium, so I'm assuming it wouldn't be able to show an issue that only appears in safari or maybe Mozilla? Perhaps this is in the docs. edit: It's in the FAQ at the bottom. Still, beyond the actual browser engine, are there other known limitations?

This feels like a lay-up, but here you go :) https://polypane.app/docs/emulation/#emulation-or-simulation Polypane doesn't simulate the specific rendering engine of other browsers, it just pretends to be another browser (which is what emulation is) so you can test that the code you wrote for those browsers (for example, a polyfill) responds well. You'll still need to test in those real browsers to check against their…

Perhaps there's a way you could remotely render a page in Firefox, Safari, etc? And then stream into the viewport.

Re: Polypane, The browser for ambitious web developers

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I like your pricing model.

You have to sign up, and then this welcomes me: The password has to have: - At least one lowercase letter - At least one number - At least one uppercase letter - At least 8 characters I do not like it when websites (or applications, w/e) do this. I am somewhat OK with "at least 8 characters long" and I even understand its significance (from a security perspective) but not the rest.

zero relevance to the pricing.

Re: Polypane, The browser for ambitious web developers

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You have to sign up, and then this welcomes me: The password has to have: - At least one lowercase letter - At least one number - At least one uppercase letter - At least 8 characters I do not like it when websites (or applications, w/e) do this. I am somewhat OK with "at least 8 characters long" and I even understand its significance (from a security perspective) but not the rest.

zero relevance to the pricing.

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Re: Polypane, The browser for ambitious web developers

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Seems quite similar to https://sizzy.co/

True! I’d love to hear from someone who tried out both and settled on one.

Sizzy seems to have been abandoned. The developer has been unresponsive and the last update was botched with no way to actually get it. It’s a shame because I preferred Sizzy's experience over the alternatives. It just felt more polished to me.

Re: Polypane, The browser for ambitious web developers

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I don't understand the many comments here complaining that the browser has a subscription. Finally! I want more paid browsers, not less. I want to get back to a world where we paid for products with money, instead of being datamined and have ads pushed down my throat. People here, out of all places, should be aware of what it means when a product is free.

I guess that when people usually talk about paid browsers, they talk about separate web engines not chromium forks. If this will help with the battle against Google's dominance.

Dominance comes from owning the product (the browser), it didn't come from the browser engine.
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