potch

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by potch 8y ago
Hello! Author here. I'm a fan of web components for widgets and embeddable third-party interfaces. I'm not as much a fan of them to wrap a site's primary content, for both accessibility and user styling reasons.
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by potch 9y ago
JavaScript is pass-by-reference for all Objects and Arrays. Value types are pass-by-value. let obj = {a: 1} function foo(arg) { return obj === arg; } foo(obj) // true The === operator operates
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by potch 9y ago
I came to it from the web development world, and after getting into speaking transferred internally onto our DevRel team. We're a small team- we encourage any Mozilla employee to speak about their own work if they want, so there's
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by potch 9y ago
I wrote up a more detailed look at some of what's in Firefox 58: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/01/firefox-58-the-quantum-era...
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by potch 9y ago
I was wondering if it was based on etherpad- super cool!
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by potch 9y ago
I've floated the idea of allowing various video formats in <source> for the <picture> element. Would allow for the right codec to be selected, and would easily allow for a <img src="foo.gif"> as the final f
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by potch 9y ago
I can confirm <a download> links with data: URIs will work after this change. I built a test to demonstrate: https://data-uri-test.glitch.me/
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by potch 9y ago
Hello! I work at Mozilla and am figuring out those exact particulars right now. Will update here when I figure out the final decision re: <a download>
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by potch 9y ago
Perhaps peruse this: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mission/ Firefox is Mozilla's flagship, and the largest by far way in which we achieve our mission, but our goal is a healthy and open internet. Additionally
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by potch 9y ago
We didn't throw away Fira Sans, which is the typeface of Firefox. However, we wanted to update the Mozilla brand apart from the Firefox brand, and so Zilla Slab was commissioned.
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by potch 9y ago
Quick breakdown of what's going on here (I work at Mozilla, and have worked on the Add-ons site in the past): The "Get Add-ons" view in Firefox is an iframe to a page hosted by addons.mozilla.org. AMO, as all Mozilla sites, u
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by potch 9y ago
Given that the discussion in the issue is "hey let's use DNT/tracking protection as a signal to not load this", assume we're looking at a reasonable mitigation here and that this was at worst an oversight.
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by potch 9y ago
IE 10 and 11 support an earlier revision of CSS Grid via -ms-grid (old enough to still have prefixes!). You may be able to polyfill the basic support that way.
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by potch 9y ago
You can search using the Style Editor: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Style_Editor Press Ctrl/Cmd+F to search. It's not presently possible to search across all files at once, but the
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by potch 9y ago
I work at Mozilla, but I'm excited about this because I'm a web developer! If you've ever tried to use flexbox to align content across multiple rows (like laying out a form with labels), you'd know that it's not a t
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by potch 10y ago
Not the PM you're looking for, but: that feedback has definitely already been recorded.
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by potch 10y ago
What if we all did this and got hundreds of millions of dollars! Think of the inflation! ;)
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by potch 10y ago
Have a public URL? Would love to add it to a test suite to help find pathological performance cases.
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by potch 10y ago
"Progressive Web Apps" is a Google brand. It's made of some good best practices and great technologies, but they reserve the right to re-define it and change the rewards around it however they choose. Install buttons are the
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by potch 11y ago
I got a chance to try tiltbrush recently. I drew a little cottage around myself, complete with a table and couch. While I was painting the ceiling, I subconsciously stepped around my couch to avoid tripping on it. That's when VR clicke
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by potch 11y ago
In my experience, hosting code/issues off of GitHub reduces triage time maintenance burden by reducing the number of contributors.
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No Maintenance Intended(unmaintained.tech)
3 points by potch 11y ago|0 comments
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by potch 11y ago
see literally the comment below this.
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by potch 11y ago
Where the jargon "value to the user" means being things the user was interested in clicking.
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by potch 11y ago
We put ads that didn't require an extensive tracking network in the new tab page of Firefox. We were able to make some money on them and show how to do ads respectfully. Even so, it was decided to remove them from Firefox as they didn&
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by potch 11y ago
This is true only until that incognito session is closed. Future sessions will have no knowledge of that tab.
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by potch 11y ago
Works great in Firefox so long as you lie about what browser you're using. Cool project, wish it wasn't a jerk about user agent sniffing.
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by potch 11y ago
I think this has to do with some DPI issues- I filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1209773 about general lack of smarts about DPI for this feature, hope that fixes it.
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by potch 11y ago
(I work for Mozilla) It captures the page cropped to the bounding box of the element, so any background content would also be captured. The results would not contain transparency.
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by potch 11y ago
I imagine it doesn't mean much beyond some more b2b uses of Node. Node has its own independent governance and nothing about this acquisition changes that.

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