It is pretty clear that there is a democratic deficit in the EU. Whether it is correct that the EU is undemocratic open for debate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Something that you can simply put into the trunk (or frunk if you will), or something that you can pass to driver in need who ran out of electricity. Does something like that exist? If no, why not?
Fonts have ceased to be a bottle neck about a twenty years ago.
Mozilla needs more work on rendering performance. Rendering SVGs is slower than on Internet Explorer 11 in many cases, and in general about four times slower than on Chrome. In one extreme test case it is even about ten times slower than Chrome ( https://testdrive-archive.azur... ), but luckily that is not a typical example.
The problem with fixing this is that it is really hard work and this kind of work is not really valued. And that is where Open Source does not work too well. Why should people work their ass off if work is not really recognized? At Google engineers are at least paid well, so it's much easier to find people who are willing to do the hard work. Just look at the team size for Google's Slimming Paint project: https://www.chromium.org/blink...
Yeah, sorry, but variable fonts won't win you too many users I suspect.
Then why does Firefox handle this in a different way? Is it really a security risk?
Of course I can run a local web server. But it's not only that. SVG injection (not sure if you have heard of this) is not possible with Chrome in local HTML files. So if we give a customer a file that displays a bunch of CSS styleable SVGs, we have to put all the SVG code inline into the HTML, making it huge. In Firefox we could just keep those SVGs in separate files, just as you would expect it to work. Or of course, I could just ask our customers: "Are you really unable to run a local web server?"
Twitter said that I have to verify my telephone number so I can continue using the Twitter service. Did not give any plausible argument why they kicked me off.
I simply stopped using twitter and will not come back. F*ck it.
with Chrome is its CORS policy for local files. Each time I test websites locally I have to switch to Firefox, because Chrome would not allow request to the local file system from a local HTML page . Firefox seems to be doing fine using a less strict policy, or does Chrome's policy mean that Firefox is insecore? Please Chrome devs, reconsider your choice on this.
will be spent on GDPR compliance. The remaining budget will be spent on foreign consultants, because using "hacking tools" is a crime in Germany, so no one knows how to use them.
...could play on the computer found in the Eddy's room in Day of the Tentacle. But you had to go there with Bernard the nerd.
Now THAT was cool, and that was in 1993!
I don't know anything about this story but wouldn't it be funny if it turned out that some "driverless" car companies had cheated by placing a dwarf driver under the engine hood, just like it was done with the Mechanical Turk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turk)?
I do not know too much about Jeff Bezos, but this scene from 1999, where he explains why he is driving a Honda Accord despite being a billionaire, may explain why he is not just your average billionaire, but the richest man on earth.
Who made the bold generalization to replace "young men entering Norway's compulsory military service" with "we all"? And would that person have been smarter forty years ago?
Of all evergreen browsers, Safari has the worst SVG implementation. It is slow, masking is not according to spec, filters force you to use sRGB interpolation.
BTW, SVG 1.1 was released in 2003. 15 years should really be enough to implement that standard, especially if you are in control of the OS and the browser.
Safari/Webkit currently has the worst SVG implementation of all evergreen browsers.
SVG Masking works completely different in WebKit (due to a wrong implementation of the spec), so graphics using masks may look totally different on Safari.
Performance is not really great, and there is the limitation to sRGB only in filters (missing part of the SVG 1.1 spec) and numerous other bugs,
It would be wonderful if Apple started working on closing the gap to the other browsers, so we could finally have cross browser for SVG 1.1.
Just as a reminder, SVG 1.1 was initially released in 2003
Just run the following performance test on Firefox and Chrome. On my machine it runs ten times faster on Chrome. Hell, even Internet Explorer is almost ten times faster than Firefox on this test.
This may be a special case, but working with SVG I can tell you that filtering and masking is considerably slower in Firefox than in Chrome.Oh, and that so called "hardware acceleration" is often enough a decelleration. Setting the number of maximum processes from 4 to 1 sometimes helps improving performance, which again is a bit funny.
No matter how ofter people repeat that Firefox is as fast as Chrome, it's just not true, yet. Firefox has made great progress, but the Mozilla team still has quite a bit to do.
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It is pretty clear that there is a democratic deficit in the EU. Whether it is correct that the EU is undemocratic open for debate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Something that you can simply put into the trunk (or frunk if you will), or something that you can pass to driver in need who ran out of electricity. Does something like that exist? If no, why not?
Fonts have ceased to be a bottle neck about a twenty years ago.
Mozilla needs more work on rendering performance. Rendering SVGs is slower than on Internet Explorer 11 in many cases, and in general about four times slower than on Chrome. In one extreme test case it is even about ten times slower than Chrome ( https://testdrive-archive.azur... ), but luckily that is not a typical example.
The problem with fixing this is that it is really hard work and this kind of work is not really valued. And that is where Open Source does not work too well. Why should people work their ass off if work is not really recognized? At Google engineers are at least paid well, so it's much easier to find people who are willing to do the hard work. Just look at the team size for Google's Slimming Paint project: https://www.chromium.org/blink...
Yeah, sorry, but variable fonts won't win you too many users I suspect.
Then why does Firefox handle this in a different way? Is it really a security risk?
Of course I can run a local web server. But it's not only that. SVG injection (not sure if you have heard of this) is not possible with Chrome in local HTML files. So if we give a customer a file that displays a bunch of CSS styleable SVGs, we have to put all the SVG code inline into the HTML, making it huge. In Firefox we could just keep those SVGs in separate files, just as you would expect it to work. Or of course, I could just ask our customers: "Are you really unable to run a local web server?"
I heard Mastadon is actually worse: http://wilwheaton.net/2018/08/...
Just switch off all of those social apps. They are making the world a horrible place.
Twitter said that I have to verify my telephone number so I can continue using the Twitter service. Did not give any plausible argument why they kicked me off.
I simply stopped using twitter and will not come back. F*ck it.
No, I haven't tried it and I will not try it. I will jsut keep using Firefox.
So the way Firefox handles this poses a security risk?
with Chrome is its CORS policy for local files. Each time I test websites locally I have to switch to Firefox, because Chrome would not allow request to the local file system from a local HTML page . Firefox seems to be doing fine using a less strict policy, or does Chrome's policy mean that Firefox is insecore? Please Chrome devs, reconsider your choice on this.
will be spent on GDPR compliance. The remaining budget will be spent on foreign consultants, because using "hacking tools" is a crime in Germany, so no one knows how to use them.
...could play on the computer found in the Eddy's room in Day of the Tentacle. But you had to go there with Bernard the nerd. Now THAT was cool, and that was in 1993!
Whoa, is this a true story? I wouldn't even be surprised if it was.
I don't know anything about this story but wouldn't it be funny if it turned out that some "driverless" car companies had cheated by placing a dwarf driver under the engine hood, just like it was done with the Mechanical Turk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turk)?
Yes, this is horrible, this idea.
Somehow rings a bell, I'm sure I heard that before.
Does he? What is known about his today's lifestyle.
>> Vote me down, but somehow I think he is a great guy.
Unlike Elon Musk, who can stick his submarine where the sun don't shine.
Now call me a pedo if you wish.
I do not know too much about Jeff Bezos, but this scene from 1999, where he explains why he is driving a Honda Accord despite being a billionaire, may explain why he is not just your average billionaire, but the richest man on earth.
https://youtu.be/3VUGj34jTqY?t...
Vote me down, but somehow I think he is a great guy.
An make sure to check your dog for aphids, too!
Who made the bold generalization to replace "young men entering Norway's compulsory military service" with "we all"? And would that person have been smarter forty years ago?
Of all evergreen browsers, Safari has the worst SVG implementation. It is slow, masking is not according to spec, filters force you to use sRGB interpolation.
BTW, SVG 1.1 was released in 2003. 15 years should really be enough to implement that standard, especially if you are in control of the OS and the browser.
Safari/Webkit currently has the worst SVG implementation of all evergreen browsers.
SVG Masking works completely different in WebKit (due to a wrong implementation of the spec), so graphics using masks may look totally different on Safari. Performance is not really great, and there is the limitation to sRGB only in filters (missing part of the SVG 1.1 spec) and numerous other bugs,
It would be wonderful if Apple started working on closing the gap to the other browsers, so we could finally have cross browser for SVG 1.1.
Just as a reminder, SVG 1.1 was initially released in 2003
Just run the following performance test on Firefox and Chrome. On my machine it runs ten times faster on Chrome. Hell, even Internet Explorer is almost ten times faster than Firefox on this test.
https://testdrive-archive.azur...
This may be a special case, but working with SVG I can tell you that filtering and masking is considerably slower in Firefox than in Chrome.Oh, and that so called "hardware acceleration" is often enough a decelleration. Setting the number of maximum processes from 4 to 1 sometimes helps improving performance, which again is a bit funny.
No matter how ofter people repeat that Firefox is as fast as Chrome, it's just not true, yet. Firefox has made great progress, but the Mozilla team still has quite a bit to do.
Alright, they are not electric, still impressive:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
This is totally lame. Has been done by
Porsche pulling A-380: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Volkswagen Touareg pulling a 747: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Man pulling Globemaster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I guess even these guys would be able to pull an airplane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...