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[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 163 points 2 months ago

You can’t count chrome and edge as two different browsers…

[-] Xylight@lemdro.id 75 points 2 months ago

MDN does, not my decision

[-] mamg22@sh.itjust.works 48 points 2 months ago

They keep them grouped together though. If you look closely, they're in the same bubble while firefox is in another one. Probably shows both for the convenience of most devs.

(also Microsoft being Microsoft might shoehorn in some feature no other normal browser would just because)

[-] LytiaNP@lemmy.today 9 points 2 months ago

I think they're in the same bubble because they both support the feature

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[-] Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago

It's actually Google doing that these days, but they do it on webkit directly and so everything but Firefox gets their experiments too.

[-] lastweakness@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Chromium (or blink), not webkit

[-] vogi@piefed.social 10 points 2 months ago

they are grouped and as they are different browsers that theoretically could have different blink versions I feel like it makes sense.

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[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 89 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You know what still works? HTML tables.

Suck it, all of the 2000s webdev.

[-] Zarobi@aussie.zone 38 points 2 months ago

What's worse than div soup? Table ware.

[-] Redjard@reddthat.com 23 points 2 months ago

Even apple phones added flexbox support in like 2022.
Flexbox spam is the new tables.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

2022? That's in the future

[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Right? What year is your org up to?

Feel free to answer in terms of OS or framework version.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Last website I built used no CSS or JavaScript

[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone 9 points 2 months ago

Living in a future utopia

[-] Randelung@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago
[-] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 4 points 2 months ago

God damn it I’m getting old. I had to seriously reconsider and reparse 2022 like nine times.

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[-] csolisr@hub.azkware.net 61 points 2 months ago

...Did you add an unescaped RTL toggle character on your user name?

[-] csolisr@hub.azkware.net 39 points 2 months ago

For the record, I noticed because I use Friendica:

Header of the post in Friendica, which thanks to the RTL toggle character, reads literally: "XylightromuH remmargorP aív"

[-] Scoopta@programming.dev 30 points 2 months ago

Jeroba only flips the instance domain, that is way more wild

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago
[-] cepelinas@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 months ago
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[-] Xylight@lemdro.id 31 points 2 months ago

i do remember doing that a long time ago

[-] hirihit640@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 months ago

Doing QA testing for free? You and lil bobby tables would get along great

[-] PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

I strongly think Lemmy clients should have a toggle to show usernames instead of display names. Some of the Unicode is super obnoxious.

[-] DarkSirrush@piefed.ca 8 points 2 months ago

Some Lemmy clients like summit do (which I keep on, because display names are often cancer)

[-] csolisr@hub.azkware.net 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

And now you're about to nerd-snipe me into checking if control characters are valid for user names in ActivityPub

[-] Xylight@lemdro.id 5 points 2 months ago

There's probably some restrictions because I tried making an instance that had a user with a completely empty username and it didn't federate.

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[-] csolisr@hub.azkware.net 16 points 2 months ago

By the way, if you want to replicate this effect for fun and profit, the control character you're searching for is U+202E RIGHT-TO-LEFT OVERRIDE (or RLO for short)

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[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 months ago

Gradual adoption is fine. It's so much better than seeing StackOverflow answers from like 2013, and knowing not a goddamn one of them works anymore. It's massively better than having to write separate code for IE and Netscape.

[-] diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 months ago

Wait until you find out that people made and still make sites that load on both IE and Netscape.

[-] kbal@fedia.io 28 points 2 months ago

There ought to be some kind of 2016 css subset that everyone sticks to and then we can reconsider maybe updating it to include any newer stuff that's absolutely essential once every ten years.

[-] Xylight@lemdro.id 23 points 2 months ago

that mentality is one reason websites spam JavaScript today, because native features of the markup language were being added too slow

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago

Expecting the runtime/browser to ship a native implementation of virtually everything you might want to do in a turing-complete language, is also really not sustainable, though.

[-] bufalo1973@piefed.social 4 points 2 months ago

Something like C/C++ does? JS16, JS20, JS24?

[-] zitrone@europe.pub 19 points 2 months ago

I don't believe, you should expect all browsers to implement all new web features in under a year. It takes time, like new C++ or C standarts. An like with all other standarts, the more parties are involved the more time it takes to adopt it.

[-] mkwt@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

Haha, one year? How quaint. (Cries into ISO C++ standards)

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 months ago

Just don't create such a mess that you need cutting-edge features.

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Cutting-edge JS is for boring stuff anyway. We've gone from formalizing the best bits of jQuery to 'click thing to make box appear.' So you're only avoiding tutorial-ass boilerplate, and quite frankly, boo hoo.

Meanwhile CSS is still in the "Jesus Christ why wasn't it like this to begin with" phase of feature adoption.

[-] Gonzako@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Thank god for tailwind templates wouldn't get anywhere without them

[-] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago

Progressive enhancement is a cool thing

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago

That's like wanting to use a just standardized media format.

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[-] ytg@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 months ago

As if modern websites care about Firefox

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

As if ~~modern~~ websites care about Firefox

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