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simevidas

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I’m interested in HTML, CSS, and making the web less annoying. My name is pronounced ˈshe-meh.

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youtube.com’s performance on mobile is very bad. It’s borderline unusable on my low-end Android phone. But don’t take my word for it. Just take a look at the CrUX numbers.

Does YouTube not realize that so many more people around the world would watch many more videos (and therefore ads) if performance was better? What’s wrong with them?

https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/https-youtube-com/46xf29cofy?form_factor=mobile

simevidas,
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Like how is it possible that the same team that is able to manage a database of billions of videos, with hundreds of hours of new videos being uploaded every minute, isn’t able to create an efficient frontend consisting of simple HTML/CSS/JavaScript for playing those videos? They excel at the difficult stuff but then fail at the simple stuff. It defies belief.

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If websites were fast, would we need speculation rules?

https://adactio.com/journal/21149

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Scams that pose as existing electronics stores in order to steal the user’s credit card info are advertising on Facebook.

🔥🐶☕️🔥

ralphruthe, to random German
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Zeit für einen Klassiker.

simevidas,
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@ralphruthe I feel it would sound more natural if it said “Heute ist Donnerstag”. (I’m not a native German.)

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I’ve started watching political talk shows like an old person, but at least I do it more efficiently than boomers because I watch at 2x speed.

tomayac, (edited ) to random
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97% agreement with the positions of the 🌱 party in the for the 🗳️.

https://www.wahl-o-mat.de/europawahl2024/

simevidas,
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@tomayac LOL

simevidas,
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@tomayac Yeah, I chose neutral on a couple of questions because I wasn’t familiar with the problem.

westbrook, to webdev
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h* elements have margin by default!? Who knew.

simevidas,
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@westbrook HTML-only documents with headings and paragraphs would not be very readable if browsers did not add vertical margins by default.

simevidas, to random
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An embedded Facebook post that renders and functions without JavaScript. This is the web as it was supposed to be. We have the technology to embed interactive content from one website on another website. It’s called HTML and CSS. And yet, it’s such a rarity on today’s web, that when it does happen, I initially don’t believe it. I have to double-check that JavaScript is indeed disabled in the browser tab. And then I just look at it in amazement. What a beautiful web that we don’t have.

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I remember when I first saw the scrollbar-gutter property, I thought that it was a very clever thing. It was not. I wish it was.

Basically, I want a “stable-after-shown” value or something:

  • If there is no overflow: do not reserve the gutter.

  • Once the container ever overflows during the lifetime of the page, show the gutter.

  • Now, if the overflow goes away, the gutter will stay.

simevidas,
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@kizu Why are you fine with the content width shrinking when the scrollbar is shown, but not fine with the content width growing when the scrollbar goes away?

simevidas,
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@kizu What do you mean by UI junk?

simevidas, to random
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“A couple of weeks ago I finally deleted my AWS account after being unable to figure out why I kept getting charged 21 cents each month.”

https://humanwhocodes.com/blog/2024/05/someone-temporarily-took-over-subdomain/

simevidas, to random
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¼ viewport

(https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/rethinking-text-resizing-on-web-1047b12d2881)

simevidas,
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@timdream I’m not a fan of websites switching to mobile layout when I zoom the page too much, so I would probably find a text-only zoom option useful. The problem is that in my browser (Firefox), there doesn’t seem to be an option to increase the text size on specific websites only, like how page zoom works. I also would like to be able to use such a feature via a keyboard command (e.g., Command + Shift + Plus).

simevidas, to random
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Football (soccer) but a goal is counted when the ball hits the goal post. If the ball goes into the net, it’s just a regular out, and the keeper gets the ball.

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line-clamp: auto

“This CL implements line-clamp: auto, which allows line-clamping a block container based on the value of the height and max-height properties.”

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40336192#comment78

simevidas, to random
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Political billboards for the EU election in Germany.

Notice how with blurred vision, the magenta word is harder to read than the white words.

This political party is probably not getting their message across to some people due to the poor accessibility of their billboards.

simevidas, to random
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twitter.com is gone (it redirects to x.com now)

MaxArt2501, to javascript
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A response to @cferdinandi 's recent post(s) on JavaScript and Web Components:
https://dev.to/maxart2501/javascript-is-not-the-problem-k4e

I know he didn't explain his position in details, so a 1800-word article sounds a little unfair, but I think dry and sharp statements need adequate context and analysis.

simevidas,
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@MaxArt2501 @cferdinandi We need to talk more about the acceptable amount of JS during page load. So many websites load 5+ MB of JS which is unacceptable. As long as this problem persists, people with low-end phones will have a poor experience on the web.

simevidas, to random
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PMS - Post Migraine Serenity

simevidas, (edited ) to random
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Retro (video game developer) “speaks milliseconds” because they actually have to convince people to purchase their games. Few people are going to spend their money on a poorly optimized game.

I guess if all the popular websites were paid, their performance would be great as well. In other words, websites are so slow because they’re free.

(image source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tbKJSJltiE)

mia, (edited ) to CSS
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Are there issues or surprises you've run into when using container queries in practice? Let us know, and we'll try to cover them in the @OddBird Winging It live stream tomorrow!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci2DLDQYup0

simevidas,
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@mia @OddBird

> Extremely annoying gotcha: container query units seem to be relative to the content-box dimensions. And there doesn't seem to be any way to make them relative to the border-box dimensions... which is what I need to solve other problems caused by container queries. 😭

https://twitter.com/anatudor/status/1789308238791422043

simevidas,
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@mia @OddBird @anatudor These are all the replies

simevidas, (edited ) to random
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This is part of the reason why I’ve lost my enthusiasm for the web platform. The modern web is annoying. Most popular websites are too slow and too difficult to use, and their developers don’t pay attention to this problem. It’s hard to get excited about a cool new web platform feature when so many websites don’t even get the absolute basics right. The entire industry is dysfunctional.

edit: Sorry if this sounds negative. I’m not angry. I’m just not excited anymore.

(https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1croz8u/in_many_ways_old_internet_had_better_ux/)

simevidas,
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On a related note:

I just watched the original Jurassic Park yesterday (for the first time in a long time). I am in some kind of shock. I have a hard time accepting the reality that that film is so much better than modern blockbusters. In that film, every single camera angle and movement is deliberate. Every scene is a work of art. Every line of dialog contributes to the whole in a meaningful way. Everything connects perfectly. It’s like if God made a film to show us how it’s done.

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