83% of browser features are used by under 1% of top websites
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83% of browser features are used by under 1% of top websites
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Re: 83% of browser features are used by under 1% of top websites
#2> ALS, “ambient light events”, would let browsers respond to the light level the laptop, phone or desktop is exposed to if anybody used it.
Can someone give me a good, non-gimmicky example of what this would be used for?
Re: 83% of browser features are used by under 1% of top websites
#3this was very interesting: "SVG, for example, has a problem however you look at it: on one hand more than 15 per cent of the sites use it, on the other hand, nearly 87 per cent of blockers block it, but it's had 14 security warnings (CVEs, Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) in the last three years."
Re: 83% of browser features are used by under 1% of top websites
#4> ALS, “ambient light events”, would let browsers respond to the light level the laptop, phone or desktop is exposed to if anybody used it. Can someone give me a good, non-gimmicky example of what this would be used for?
Use a white letters on black background theme in case the user is browsing your site in bed with his lights off? ^_^
Re: 83% of browser features are used by under 1% of top websites
#5> ALS, “ambient light events”, would let browsers respond to the light level the laptop, phone or desktop is exposed to if anybody used it. Can someone give me a good, non-gimmicky example of what this would be used for?
Hmm, perhaps a text-heavy site could switch between "night" and "day" modes for ease of reading
Re: 83% of browser features are used by under 1% of top websites
#6> ALS, “ambient light events”, would let browsers respond to the light level the laptop, phone or desktop is exposed to if anybody used it. Can someone give me a good, non-gimmicky example of what this would be used for?
essentially something like f.lux presumably.
Re: 83% of browser features are used by under 1% of top websites
#7> ALS, “ambient light events”, would let browsers respond to the light level the laptop, phone or desktop is exposed to if anybody used it. Can someone give me a good, non-gimmicky example of what this would be used for?
Yeah. Spotify would stop ads if the audio got too low. In the same way, ambient light could be used to make sure an ad is watched.
Not saying it's the most important case ever, but it would be important if you needed it
Re: 83% of browser features are used by under 1% of top websites
#8Kind of a silly article. Most top websites just serve static content with tons of ad-network crap, they would never need 83% of the features. This is like saying "the most sold vehicles in the world don't use 90% of the horsepower they have". No shit, the most sold vehicles in the world are Corollas and Civics, ie. "sit in traffic and commute" type cars.
It doesn't cost anything to keep these features around, why kill them off? Code is cheap, it doesn't cost you, the user, anything to have the features in your browser...
Re: 83% of browser features are used by under 1% of top websites
#9Can anyone recommend an updated browser that skips most unused features to run faster, use less memory or be more secure?
Re: 83% of browser features are used by under 1% of top websites
#10Kind of a silly article. Most top websites just serve static content with tons of ad-network crap, they would never need 83% of the features. This is like saying "the most sold vehicles in the world don't use 90% of the horsepower they have". No shit, the most sold vehicles in the world are Corollas and Civics, ie. "sit in traffic and commute" type cars. It doesn't cost anything to keep these features around, why kil…
It does cost you something if that code has security holes.