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Re:The curious case of disappearing Polish S by na85 on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @12:35AM (#8989026)
It's a symptom of this latest "push all functionality to javascript" fad, and I can't wait until people wake up to the fact that it's just this generation's Flash.

In-browser WYSIWYG or markdown editing is not good UX design. Period. Full stop. It's never been better than an offline text editor, and when you try to present a cross-browser experience, this is what inevitably happens.

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Re:The curious case of disappearing Polish S by eatonphil on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @09:06AM (#8990326)
I wasn't around for it, but I feel like this same thing could be said for cross-platform compilers or VMs... Javascript is just newer. It seems like your argument in the second paragraph could be applied to the infant Java VM or GCC. It seems a little myopic.
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Re:The curious case of disappearing Polish S by na85 on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @11:58AM (#8991457)
I'm unaware of any GCC hotkeys.
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