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Re:An HTML Switch Control on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @08:25AM (#39603037)
HTML switch was already requested in 2018: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/4180
Re:Chrome's built-in JSON viewer breaks existing JSON viewer extensions on Thursday September 28, 2023 @07:30PM (#37697341)
The change that broke the extensions is reverted for now due to the reported issues.
Re:Apple and Google’s mobile browser ‘stranglehold’ may face UK invest... on Saturday June 11, 2022 @10:43AM (#31704786)
> USB, Bluetooth [...] have no place in a browser

How about letting users decide to which capabilities they give permission depending on what they need? I don't want to push them to download and install a whole software package locally which has usually access to more data and hardware APIs compared to a webapp that temporarily lives in a browser tab.

Re:Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in the Brave ... on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @10:33AM (#28931105)
No, we're not referring to it being blocked only in China. It was blocked on 4th June worldwide by all search engines that rely on Bing (DDG, Qwant, Ecosia, ...)

You can see them returning no results for "tank man" from the web archive: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27398376

Re:Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in the Brave ... on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @10:28AM (#28931042)
> I'd honestly rather have a search provider run by the CPC

Any reason behind your preference? It baffles me to hear you'd rather use a heavily censored and CCP-controlled search provider than a search provider from a free market with an alternative business model.

Re:Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in the Brave ... on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @10:14AM (#28930892)
DuckDuckGo, Qwant, Ecosia, Yahoo, etc. they all rely on Bing (Some only for images)[1].

> Works fine for me

Not on June 4th[2] (the date when the Tiananmen Square massacre ended). Microsoft "fixed" it after the backlash.

[1]: https://www.searchenginemap.com/

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27398376

Re:LinkedIn shutting down in China after mounting government pressure on Sunday October 17, 2021 @09:04PM (#28901236)
True. I abandoned Facebook long time ago because of its low-value feed. Recently had to join LinkedIn and was disappointed immediately to see yet another feed which is rarely informative whomever I follow
Re:Google sets burial date for legacy Chrome Extensions, fears for ad-... on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @09:45AM (#28682704)
You moved from WebKit to WebKit
Re:A single person answered 76k questions about SQL on StackOverflow on Friday September 24, 2021 @12:41PM (#28644788)
Stack Exchange sites are not mere social media but more like an encyclopedia for specific topics. Answering as well as asking good questions requires extensive research and being mindful of future readers.

Sad to see SE contributors are compared with FB users.

Re:Mozilla has defeated Microsoft’s default browser protections in Win... on Monday September 13, 2021 @09:30AM (#28511225)
I doubt MS wants that kind of segmentation if they themselves rely strongly on the Chromium project.
Re:There are no results for tank man on Friday June 04, 2021 @09:00PM (#27400944)
HN is blocked in China.
Re:Vue 3 drops IE11 support plan on Thursday May 13, 2021 @05:29PM (#27147708)
SAP, one of the largest ERP vendors, is dropping IE support this year for most of their products including legacy ones.[0] And according to SAP, "91% of Forbes Global 2000" are SAP customers.[1] So we can expect enterprises moving to "modern browsers" this year if not done already.

I do create B2B apps. Last time I had to support IE11 was 6 years ago.

[0]: https://blogs.sap.com/2021/02/02/internet-explorer-11-will-n... [1]: https://www.sap.com/why-sap.html

Re:GitHub Should Start an App Store on Sunday January 31, 2021 @01:51PM (#25981386)
FF only removed the SSB (site specific browser) feature on desktop which was in an alpha state. There was no announcement that Mozilla was going to remove the entire PWA features (such as service workers).

PWA is a set of modern web standards. "Supporting PWA" can mean many things but "Removing unfinished SSB" doesn't mean "Removing PWA".

Re:SAP drops support for legacy browsers on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @04:36PM (#25934313)
The main article as well as the linked post mentions that the classic Edge (EgdeHTML) is also affected. Hence "legacy browsers" in the title.

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