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Originally, mostly for ideological reasons and because people simply followed the anti-Microsoft trend. Technologically, IE was not a bad browser when it was released and had quite a few advantages over Navigator/Communicator.

Of course, when Microsoft decided to abandon the whole thing and the competition (i.e. Mozilla) continued working on it, IE slowly lost these advantages.

So, down the line there were certainly also technological reasons why people were not too fond of it, but most of the dislike originated from said anti-Microsoft ideology. Of course, we are speaking here about 20ish years ago.

Coincidences or not, why should it suggest a simulation? That seems somewhat unrelated.
Re:Why Node.js makes me uncomfortable on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @08:28AM (#37843591)
PHP does come with an incredible amount of functionality out of the box. Though that does not mean one may never have to intgrate a library.

That being said, the dependency insanity which became commonplace with JavaScript becoming more accepted as backend language is a different story of course.

Was it left-pad? :)

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What about standard permissions? The user is never prompted for them.

Tell HN: Google does not list application permissions in the Play Store any more

https://postimg.cc/6y3Z9yjYThey had implemented that already a while ago, then reverted the behaviour, and now implemented it once again.It seems as if it was not "enabled" for everyone yet, however.They hid the permissions with each version better and better and apparently decided now, users don't need them at all.

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Re: on Friday March 25, 2022 @05:57PM (#30807406)
Thanks for the response, appreciated. I am afraid I can hardly post it again for obvious reasons :)

However there is a screenshot - https://ibb.co/K7JDsZ4

Google just censored more “undesired” media

Just a couple of minutes ago (around 8:45pm GMT) Google removed the Youtube channel of the two Russians who called Ben Wallace and Priti Patel and posed as Prime Minister of Ukraine - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7aFhtshxOnaqioFAJ0ZSvASay whatever you want about the stunt itself but nothing in there was made up or falsified. They actually even redacted certain parts of the conversation...

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Re:The Path Out of Ukraine Is Reversing the Path In on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @04:33AM (#30696538)
True.

> But the US has said it will not pressure Ukraine to negotiate and has even discouraged it from negotiating. State Department spokesperson Ned Price seemed to suggest that Ukraine continue to fight and Ukrainians continue to die rather than ending the war by negotiating

Maps and Earth were not in-house built but purchased.
Re:Eat Meat on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @03:19AM (#30083076)
That posting is proof of the old saying

Don't do drugs, kids

Re:2020 Election: Could Trump’s claims have merit? on Thursday November 19, 2020 @11:06AM (#25150854)
That's not the point though.

The question really only is whether the allegations have mentioned merit or not. If the situation was reversed it would be the same of course.

Re:Show HN: A Stargate in 140 chars of JavaScript on Saturday November 14, 2020 @02:35AM (#25090840)
Difficult to tell if sarcasm or not ;)

Google out to annoy its users

It seems Google chose 9/11 to start annoying its users.As of today it would seem they have mandatory modal dialogs on google.com as well as on youtube.com.The one on google.com is a cookie prompt, Youtube asks you to log in.

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This domain appears to have used these two bizprime servers for almost two years, however they only return a generic IP address which most likely serves that "for sale" page.

Currently, however, the domain does not point to these nameservers but to ns3.aqadvisor.com and ns4.aqadvisor.com instead. DNS glue appears to be present for these two servers, however they themselves do not consider themselves authoritative for the domain (and don't return their own names) but only refer to bizprime again.

The whole DNS setup is somewhat broken and needs fixing by the site owner.

Re:Deno Is a Browser for Code on Friday May 29, 2020 @11:38AM (#23351239)
Well, jQuery has the hashes on-site.
Re:Deno Is a Browser for Code on Friday May 29, 2020 @11:16AM (#23350917)
To be honest, I am not sure what should be wrong with adding code by hand.

Libraries were added manually by legions of developers long before one thought he'd need to create a downloadable left-pad "package".

The whole package management issue is overrated.

Re:Deno Is a Browser for Code on Friday May 29, 2020 @08:29AM (#23349162)
That not, hence "not exactly" but SRI still is nice add-on.
Re:Deno Is a Browser for Code on Friday May 29, 2020 @03:49AM (#23347345)
Though after that point even your own code cannot use that permission anymore.
Re:Deno Is a Browser for Code on Friday May 29, 2020 @03:43AM (#23347291)
While not exactly what you are asking, SRI does address that issue to a certain extent

https://medium.com/binary-passion/gentlemen-please-fasten-yo...

Re:Ask HN: Do you still use jQuery? on Saturday May 16, 2020 @05:12AM (#23201799)
I recently migrated a personal project to a newer version of a library it is using and that version dropped its jQuery requirement. In that process I also rewrote my own code using jQuery and moved to vanilla JavaScript.

A lot, that required or semi-required jQuery before can now be done with vanilla JavaScript, however jQuery is still going strong with invoking code on sets of elements as well as cascading calls.

jQuery has been a fantastic library and deserves all the praise, however a lot of its functionality has made it by now into the language itself.

To answer your direct questions, I couldnt think of any "issues", at worst you download an additional 30 kilobytes (gzipped) but with today's mentality of megabytes and megabytes for websites, that really shouldnt matter much. As for advantages, as mentioned, JavaScript did take over a lot of functionality, but as direct advantages I'd consider aforementioned features. Additionally, there certainly is also still a lot of libraries/plugins which depend on jQuery.

Re:Show HN: DNS over Wikipedia on Monday April 06, 2020 @03:10AM (#22791484)
It is not even a CNAME. It is a JavaScript redirect based on the the response of an HTTP request to Wikipedia.
Re:You’re not writing code, you’re solving problems on Sunday March 29, 2020 @01:37PM (#22720857)
I am afraid, as jackcviers3 already said, you are missing the point.

The goal of making applications is to have a piece of software at the end. That piece of software is the solution to the problem you have.

Actually, in that very sentence of yours you explicitly repeated what I already wrote

Re:You’re not writing code, you’re solving problems on Sunday March 29, 2020 @09:34AM (#22718876)
You could argue that, but that would apply to painters, chefs, mechanics, hair dressers, everyone.

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