someone just used React.js as an example of facebook “playing nice” and well.. i was able to interact with the react engineers on twitter years ago. they were quite shockingly open with the fact they intended react to be an embrace extend extinguish strategy aimed at the web as a whole, in tandem with react native. the long term vision was to have react native, painting directly to something like webgl or webgpu, then get rid of the rest of the web platform. super surprised they admitted it.
it’s a good reason to resist react.js even if you like it. every site that gets converted to use react.js brings meta a step closer to strangling the open web to death
i took a vga capture cause i was too lazy to make a proper screenshot on the real w98 machine i'm using and then manually uploading it via ftp to my other machine
if you want to add this to your own nginx setup:
map $http_user_agent $brnotice {
default '</head>';
~*Chrome '<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maple.pet/notice.css"></head><div class="impnotice">You are using an unsupported browser. Please visit <a href="https://getfirefox.com">this website</a> to upgrade your browser.</div>';
}
server {
[...]
sub_filter '</head>' $brnotice;
sub_filter_once on;
}```
If I'm gonna be online I want funner tools. not like a new code or whatever, but like a little inventory I can collect things in and use them later. someone can leave a little compass on their front page and I follow it, and it leads me to an alcove. and I pull out my microscope to look at the web protozoa left to mutate for eons since the early web. and I go home to find someone sleeping on my page, charging their dht phone. it's no problem, I put up a do not disturb sign so no one wakes them
I have been using a $100 temporary Android phone while waiting for my fancy phone to get replaced under warranty and the experience with the stock OS is just so so bad. Like barely usable most of the time. Even the GPS and wifi don't work well.
Most people worldwide use cheap Android phones on old versions of the OS and this was a good reminder that just because my mobile app/site works well on my fancy phone, it might work hardly at all for most people.
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HRT: 15/11/2015
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