Oh dear. Markdown has no standard grammar or standard way of rendering.
This website lags while I scroll on mobile.
I remember when the internet used to be fast and responsive. Probably just getting old.
This website lags while I scroll on mobile.
I remember when the internet used to be fast and responsive. Probably just getting old.
There's a media query consuming this variable, and doing a calculation:
--logo-y: calc(3em - var(--scrolltop, 0) * 1px);
So every time the user scrolls, TWO variable updates take place, TWO redraws, and TWO of these calculations take place, TWO more redraws, just to center the sunburst background on the logo.
I remember scrolling on an unaccelerated SVGA card and watching the screen repaint.
I remember being impressed at how gopher would only redraw the parts of the screen that changed, making browsing gopherspace bearable at 1200bps.
I remember queuing downloads of shareware games over zmodem and waiting an hour or more to find out whether they would even run on my hardware, and having to go do something else while I wait because my OS couldn't do multitasking and even if it could it would drop bits because the 8250 UART didn't have a buffer.
This has got to be the most hackneyed comment on HN, and has been for the 10 years I’ve been on here.
It's better to be right than stylish...
Also all of the parsers for md are very complicated.
https://github.com/executablebooks/myst-parser :
> MyST is a rich and extensible flavor of Markdown meant for technical documentation and publishing.
> MyST is a flavor of markdown that is designed for simplicity, flexibility, and extensibility. This repository serves as the reference implementation of MyST Markdown, as well as a collection of tools to support working with MyST in Python and Sphinx. It contains an extended CommonMark-compliant parser using markdown-it-py, as well as a Sphinx extension that allows you to write MyST Markdown in Sphinx.
https://github.com/executablebooks/markdown-it-py :
> Follows the CommonMark spec for baseline parsing; Configurable syntax: you can add new rules and even replace existing ones; Pluggable: Adds syntax extensions to extend the parser (see the plugin list), High speed (see our benchmarking tests) ; Safe by default
https://github.com/markdown-it/markdown-it :
> Follows the CommonMark spec + adds syntax extensions & sugar (URL autolinking, typographer), Configurable syntax!; You can add new rules and even replace existing ones; High speed; Safe by default; Community-written plugins and other packages on npm
Do you remember it being that on mobile?
Because I remember when it used to be a tiny subset of HTML (remember WAP? or early "web" browsers for mobile?) that to add insult to injury still sucked donkeys' balls on mobile, being slow and unresponsive as hell.
It's possible that it's a combination of:
- it's known that iPhone and mobile Safari prioritize user interaction over display fidelity. So Safari prioritizes scrolling over rendering updates, and updates whatever's lagging at more infrequent intervals
- Safari implements CSS var updates differently (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29353136 on what's going on with the site)
You're basically pointing to the first panel and saying 'job done'. That's not enough to make it work.