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Re: Hacker95.css – Make Hacker News look like Windows 95

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Post by bobbyz »

userbinator wrote: post #8
bobbyz wrote: post #3

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You have installation instructions for Firefox, which has like a 5% market share, yet you don't have instructions for chrome. That cracked me up

Chrome removed that functionality a few years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/1ymfgw/user_stylesh... (The comment there that removing this "is going to help increase speed significantly in the future" is pure BS. If anything, user stylesheet functionality was handled in native code --- just adding another CSS to the page --- which makes it far more efficient than going through the whole JS/extensions ro…

It would be helpful if this could have been indicated

Re: Hacker95.css – Make Hacker News look like Windows 95

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Post by bobbyz »

tomc1985 wrote: post #23
bobbyz wrote: post #3

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You have installation instructions for Firefox, which has like a 5% market share, yet you don't have instructions for chrome. That cracked me up

You made fun of Firefox. That cracked me up

Heres a fun Firefox fact. Firefox handles audio/media files differently than chrome. Since it has a small market share, it becomes a rather annoying lose-lose: either spend a bunch of time to support Firefox for the ~20 people that will access your site using Firefox, or you don't support Firefox.

Re: Hacker95.css – Make Hacker News look like Windows 95

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Post by coronadisaster »

asveikau wrote: post #79
coronadisaster wrote: post #50

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Win2000 was the most perfect and least buggy Windows version of all time.

It didn't seem buggy at the time but you wouldn't want it on the public internet with all its security bugs. It would be nice if Microsoft just backported security improvements and other kernel type stuff without messing with UI.

Of course but the problem with updates is that you can never only get security updates... You have to get "feature enhencements" too... It would be nice to have 2 branches.

Re: Hacker95.css – Make Hacker News look like Windows 95

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Post by asveikau »

coronadisaster wrote: post #83
asveikau wrote: post #79

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It didn't seem buggy at the time but you wouldn't want it on the public internet with all its security bugs. It would be nice if Microsoft just backported security improvements and other kernel type stuff without messing with UI.

Of course but the problem with updates is that you can never only get security updates... You have to get "feature enhencements" too... It would be nice to have 2 branches.

I don't mean just security updates though. I mean systemic security improvements coming from redesigns of components. Some of the changes are feature enhancements in the kernel too, some affecting security.

For all the criticisms of UAC or the Win8+ app store I would sooner trust a sandbox on recent windows than I would on Win2k. Even the XP SP2 era had huge security re-vamps that Win2k never got.

And there are performance things. I happen to know that Win32 message pumps have a better locking scheme on Win7 than they did in 2k.

The issue is in order to get enhancements in the lower layers you get forced into other bloat higher up.

Disclaimer, I spent a few years as a dev on the Windows team.

Re: Hacker95.css – Make Hacker News look like Windows 95

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Post by pedrocx486 »

wtetzner wrote: post #78
pedrocx486 wrote: post #52

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Function over form. I don't think this is a bad thing, HN doesn't need to be any more advanced, it does its job really well as is.

It would be nice if it supported markdown, though.

It supports some markdown, but I agree, that and a dark mode (I made a really basic one for the Stylish extension) would be the only things I'd accept as a change.

Aside that anything like making the site full of JS for more functions would be a no from me. :-)

Re: Hacker95.css – Make Hacker News look like Windows 95

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Post by tomc1985 »

bobbyz wrote: post #82
tomc1985 wrote: post #23

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You made fun of Firefox. That cracked me up

Heres a fun Firefox fact. Firefox handles audio/media files differently than chrome. Since it has a small market share, it becomes a rather annoying lose-lose: either spend a bunch of time to support Firefox for the ~20 people that will access your site using Firefox, or you don't support Firefox.

It's a shame that laziness is more important than interoperability. Part of the life of frontend or webdev is dealing with compatilibity issues, and it has been that way since forever. If you got into this biz thinking you could do that work and avoid those problems you thought wrong.

Re: Hacker95.css – Make Hacker News look like Windows 95

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Post by bobbyz »

tomc1985 wrote: post #86
bobbyz wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Heres a fun Firefox fact. Firefox handles audio/media files differently than chrome. Since it has a small market share, it becomes a rather annoying lose-lose: either spend a bunch of time to support Firefox for the ~20 people that will access your site using Firefox, or you don't support Firefox.

It's a shame that laziness is more important than interoperability. Part of the life of frontend or webdev is dealing with compatilibity issues, and it has been that way since forever. If you got into this biz thinking you could do that work and avoid those problems you thought wrong.

Laziness? Don't you mean unpractical and financially unviable? If I support Firefox do I support Edge, Opera, Android Webview, UC Browser? Explain how pragmatic prioritization can constitute as laziness.
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