demetris

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by demetris 2mo ago
There is functionality to reopen the last closed window, and also a keyboard shortcut for it. IIRC, the shortcut is Ctrl+Shift+N (on Windows and Linux).
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by demetris 3mo ago
F*** me! The owner of whirlpool.net.au commenting on my comment. I am replying because of the huge respect I have for the work. Yes, I am seriously asking with a straight face. Yes, I know how to pirate. I’m from this planet. :-D Pirating,
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by demetris 3mo ago
What plenty of ways? How can I run a macOS virtual machine LEGALLY on my Linux or Windows machine?
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by demetris 3mo ago
I think pjmlp is just being contrarian. First, the Microsoft browser these days is Edge, not IE. IE is dead. Second, if you want, or wanted in the past, to test on Internet Explorer without a Windows computer, you could just virtualize Wind
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by demetris 3mo ago
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by demetris 3mo ago
I know of the solutions. I use a few of them. I have multiple Playwright webkits on both Windows and Linux. I have Epiphany on Linux (not 100% same webkit). I have subscriptions for testing on real hardware. This is why it seems to me that
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by demetris 3mo ago
But does Apple really care about web developers? How do you test on Safari if you don’t have Apple devices? How difficult can it be for Apple to make barebones virtual machines with just Safaris?
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by demetris 3mo ago
What chrisweekly said: Configuring webpack, mostly. :-D That’s not a dig at webpack: Those tools are super complex, and hiding complexity from the user is not easy. But it seems that with Vite we finally got there.
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by demetris 3mo ago
I love Vite, when I don’t forget it exists in my projects. It took things that made you feel mentally deficient and made them almost zero-config. This news does not make me happy. Same with the news about Astro earlier this year. I know it
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by demetris 5mo ago
That is not necessarily proof. Sometimes I am too lazy to think of a good commit message, so I have a custom command that tells the assistant to do this: Commit umstaged changes with a nice clean message summary and no full message. By defa
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by demetris 7mo ago
Websites do care about the UA. They don’t care, at least most don’t care, about the User-Agent string . That is different. About an element that gets rendered into native menu controls, I am not sure. I haven’t been following closely for t
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by demetris 7mo ago
Some of the stuff we have been adding since then is GOOD though. Some examples: We now have to accommodate all types of user agents, and we do that very well. We now have complex navigation menus that cannot be accessible without JavaScript
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by demetris 7mo ago
But how does that work? Does Cloudflare force firewall rules for those who choose to use it for their websites? If the tool that does the crawling identifies itself properly, does Cloudflare block it even if users do not tell Cloudflare to
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by demetris 7mo ago
Firefox could (should?) be better in several aspects but it seems excessive to say it is pretty irrelevant. It has 4.5% market share in Europe, 9% in Germany (statcounter numbers). It is the browser that got the Google Labs folks to write a
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by demetris 7mo ago
I didn’t pay close attention to the domain and I thought it was the other one: https://moderncss.dev/ One of the best educational resources for modern CSS. BTW, one of the reasons I love modern CSS is front-end performance.
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by demetris 7mo ago
Thank you! > The folks who crawl more appear to mostly be folks who are doing grounding or RAG, and also AI companies who think that they can build a better foundational model by going big. But how can they aspire to do any of that if th
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by demetris 7mo ago
I don’t believe resips will be with us for long, at least not to the extent they are now. There is pressure and there are strong commercial interests against the whole thing. I think the problem will solve itself in some part. Also, I alway
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by demetris 8mo ago
Hey, tasty_freeze! The motivation behind the benchmarks was to understand what are the options today for optimizing the types of image we use PNG for, so I used the same set of images I had used previously in a comparison of PNG optimizers.
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by demetris 8mo ago
Yeah. Numbers for decompression speed is one of the two things I want to add. The other is a few more images, for more variety.
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by demetris 8mo ago
I published some benchmarks recently: https://op111.net/posts/2025/10/png-and-modern-formats-lossl... I compare PNG and the four modern formats, AVIF, HEIF, WebP, JPEG XL, on tasks/images that PNG was de
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by demetris 8mo ago
https://op111.net - My blog https://omnicarousel.dev - Docs and demos site for Omni Carousel, a library I wrote recently
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by demetris 8mo ago
Thank you! Would a Jump to navigation link next to Skip to content make this arrangement better for screen reader users?
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by demetris 8mo ago
I did that that recently for a couple of personal projects and I like it. I think I will start doing it for client sites too. https://omnicarousel.dev The main navigation menu is just above the site footer in the HTML document.
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by demetris 10mo ago
Do you know what user agent the browsers send? I tried with Windows 7 (Firefox 115) and it reports Windows 7. It seems though that it cannot distinguish between Windows 10 and Windows 11, so, without looking further, I suppose the detection
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by demetris 10mo ago
Oh! That’s interesting. Thank you. My main Firefox in that setup is from the Mozilla repos, rather than the ESR version that is the default in Debian stable. So, it could very well be that. I will have to check to see what the ESR Firefox f
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by demetris 10mo ago
I was working on a carousel library a few months ago. I had made a few stress-test demos so that I could catch obvious issues while I was adding things and tweaking things. One carousel there had 16K slides. On Windows both Chrome and Firef
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by demetris 10mo ago
The standard video element is really nice: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/... I have used it on a couple of client sites, and it works really well. You can even add a th
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by demetris 10mo ago
:-) My interest in doing the benchmarks was the other thing: Seeing what the options are these days for the types of image PNG was designed for. As the results started accumulating, I wasn’t sure I should include all formats in the post and
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PNG and modern formats: A comparison of lossless compression for graphics images(op111.net)
2 points by demetris 10mo ago|4 comments
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by demetris 10mo ago
Author here. I ran benchmarks comparing PNG, AVIF, HEIF, JPEG XL, and WebP for lossless compression of graphics images. Tested with 14 images. The results are also available in a TXT file: https://op111.net/files/2025&#

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