It's not. It's something like Equal Earth (I'm not familiar enough with all the projections to say for certain, but it's a long way from Mercator).
It's broken in the exact same way in the last version of Vivaldi that works on Windows <10. From a quick look at the second horizontal strip that starts "what is this?", and without wasting time doing too much digging,…
Exactly. Ad creators know that the purpose of what they're building is more important than their personal dev experience of using shiny new tools. It's such a shame the fashion is the other way for so many web…
To be fair on this particular point, talking about iOS Safari before version 14 isn't "some random old build". It depends on your own users, but I saw plenty of 6-year-old iPhone user agents in the web logs when dealing…
Oh that's a new change then, thanks for pointing it out. It was only last week I was annoyed at how it was hiding that the answers were from 2013-2014. I wonder if they've suddenly got someone there with a bit more…
It's the VC/Silicon Valley mindset. They want to be able to call themselves "entrepreneurs" and "founders"; the product has little importance compared to that. It goes some way to explaining why the vast majority fail.
It should have said maximizing screen height, not space (on desktop not mobile), in these modern days of widescreen monitors. If we have title bars, menu bars, toolbars etc, while using the full screen width, we're…
Yes, I'm glad somebody's pointed that out. I read that post, "Users only click on the start menu 0.1% of the time...", and thought, well yes, what do you think the start menu's for? The user will use it to load…
That's interesting to read, thanks for the link. It does sound like the counter-stance is mainly also the view of one person, Dr Miles Russell at Bournemouth Uni. But from bits I've read before, Sir Mortimer Wheeler was…
(Source: owned and ran a netcafe for 10 years) Just a correction: Netcafes don't have to get special licences. I'm not aware of any such licences existing anymore. They just buy however many standard retail copies or…
"Reverse engineering" is also a misnomer here. Surely - this guy doesn't even know what it means? It means working out how to get to the end result when you only have that end result to look at, you don't have full…
I just looked up that Shaboozey song on Youtube, because I hadn't heard of it and wondered how different it might sound from usual modern pop. I liked the start of it - not modern-pop-styled at all. Then after a few…
Flexbox is still fairly new! Hmm, maybe I'm just old. While a lot of devs love to use brand-new stuff that's only just been added to some browsers, some of us are not willing when we know it won't work for (almost) all…
> The tradition goes back to SimCity, which only ran on Windows 95 because Microsoft wrote special code for it... Yes, Microsoft modified its OS just to cover up one game’s bug... The SimCity hack was a one-off The…
There are rare occasions when circumstances are more important than preserving an "EOL" designation. This appears to be one of those times where "official" centralized patches really should be made available for PHP5…
> you end up recreating React or another library along the way That's always the trotted-out response, most often recited by people who've read someone else saying it but not had the experience to form an opinion for…
Indeed, the enjoyment in software engineering may come from problem-solving (for many of us at least) - but that means that at the end of it, you've created something that solves that client's problem; you've built…
Regarding real-world use of WebP - what makes it much worse, in my experience, is that so many web servers are set up to do a lossy conversion to WebP from the original file, most often JPEG (to cut down on bandwidth,…
> Wool is a free by-product I can't believe how common this erroneous view is. Sheep reared for wool were bred specifically for the quality of their wool. Those that produce the best wool are not used for their meat.…
Clicking the Information icon on the end of the line "Positive Feedback (last 12 months): 100%" shows that this is correct. Never forget it's a marketing line, to encourage you to buy, not to help you. Percentages…
> pre-1960s UK Where do you get that from? Is this a confusion with dates spoken or written out in full as "March the 9th, 2023"? We're talking numeric form here, "090323" in the specific example, and I don't think the…
He's changed it now to say it was all added in Windows 2000.
My first thought was "that's new to me, TIL", but when I tried right-clicking a scrollbar in Explorer, I immediately recognised the menu and thought "yeah, that's always been there". Now I'm just confused.
A "scrollbar mess"!? That type of designer is exactly the cause of the problem. Usability breaks the look of my design, so I'll break usability! Obviously it's more important that everyone sees my amazing graphic design…
> I don’t want a custom look and feel for each app I'd agree personally, but when you look at the huge success of things like WinAmp's themes back in the day, there clearly is (was?) a large market for it.
It's not. It's something like Equal Earth (I'm not familiar enough with all the projections to say for certain, but it's a long way from Mercator).
It's broken in the exact same way in the last version of Vivaldi that works on Windows <10. From a quick look at the second horizontal strip that starts "what is this?", and without wasting time doing too much digging,…
Exactly. Ad creators know that the purpose of what they're building is more important than their personal dev experience of using shiny new tools. It's such a shame the fashion is the other way for so many web…
To be fair on this particular point, talking about iOS Safari before version 14 isn't "some random old build". It depends on your own users, but I saw plenty of 6-year-old iPhone user agents in the web logs when dealing…
Oh that's a new change then, thanks for pointing it out. It was only last week I was annoyed at how it was hiding that the answers were from 2013-2014. I wonder if they've suddenly got someone there with a bit more…
It's the VC/Silicon Valley mindset. They want to be able to call themselves "entrepreneurs" and "founders"; the product has little importance compared to that. It goes some way to explaining why the vast majority fail.
It should have said maximizing screen height, not space (on desktop not mobile), in these modern days of widescreen monitors. If we have title bars, menu bars, toolbars etc, while using the full screen width, we're…
Yes, I'm glad somebody's pointed that out. I read that post, "Users only click on the start menu 0.1% of the time...", and thought, well yes, what do you think the start menu's for? The user will use it to load…
That's interesting to read, thanks for the link. It does sound like the counter-stance is mainly also the view of one person, Dr Miles Russell at Bournemouth Uni. But from bits I've read before, Sir Mortimer Wheeler was…
(Source: owned and ran a netcafe for 10 years) Just a correction: Netcafes don't have to get special licences. I'm not aware of any such licences existing anymore. They just buy however many standard retail copies or…
"Reverse engineering" is also a misnomer here. Surely - this guy doesn't even know what it means? It means working out how to get to the end result when you only have that end result to look at, you don't have full…
I just looked up that Shaboozey song on Youtube, because I hadn't heard of it and wondered how different it might sound from usual modern pop. I liked the start of it - not modern-pop-styled at all. Then after a few…
Flexbox is still fairly new! Hmm, maybe I'm just old. While a lot of devs love to use brand-new stuff that's only just been added to some browsers, some of us are not willing when we know it won't work for (almost) all…
> The tradition goes back to SimCity, which only ran on Windows 95 because Microsoft wrote special code for it... Yes, Microsoft modified its OS just to cover up one game’s bug... The SimCity hack was a one-off The…
There are rare occasions when circumstances are more important than preserving an "EOL" designation. This appears to be one of those times where "official" centralized patches really should be made available for PHP5…
> you end up recreating React or another library along the way That's always the trotted-out response, most often recited by people who've read someone else saying it but not had the experience to form an opinion for…
Indeed, the enjoyment in software engineering may come from problem-solving (for many of us at least) - but that means that at the end of it, you've created something that solves that client's problem; you've built…
Regarding real-world use of WebP - what makes it much worse, in my experience, is that so many web servers are set up to do a lossy conversion to WebP from the original file, most often JPEG (to cut down on bandwidth,…
> Wool is a free by-product I can't believe how common this erroneous view is. Sheep reared for wool were bred specifically for the quality of their wool. Those that produce the best wool are not used for their meat.…
Clicking the Information icon on the end of the line "Positive Feedback (last 12 months): 100%" shows that this is correct. Never forget it's a marketing line, to encourage you to buy, not to help you. Percentages…
> pre-1960s UK Where do you get that from? Is this a confusion with dates spoken or written out in full as "March the 9th, 2023"? We're talking numeric form here, "090323" in the specific example, and I don't think the…
He's changed it now to say it was all added in Windows 2000.
My first thought was "that's new to me, TIL", but when I tried right-clicking a scrollbar in Explorer, I immediately recognised the menu and thought "yeah, that's always been there". Now I'm just confused.
A "scrollbar mess"!? That type of designer is exactly the cause of the problem. Usability breaks the look of my design, so I'll break usability! Obviously it's more important that everyone sees my amazing graphic design…
> I don’t want a custom look and feel for each app I'd agree personally, but when you look at the huge success of things like WinAmp's themes back in the day, there clearly is (was?) a large market for it.