Neat, but "console clear" to clear struck me. A bit verbose, no? After years of "cls" (aliased on unix) I might not bother with the number of keystrokes required.
You can just type clear() if you're focused on the webconsole.
cat file1
in my PATH. Only because sometimes printf or some other way to print ESC's might not be available.
The idea of starting up X11 so I can start the super-sized code complexity experiment that calls itself "Firefox", all just to get to a command line struck me. The fact they are calling the approach at Mozilla as "responsive design" I found insulting.
Are they in denial about just how big and complex Firefox is? This is not how you attain responsive design.
For example if I have Firefox running in Xvfb it would be nice to be able to issue remote commands (an early version of Mozilla did have something like this if I recall correctly: -remote), such as the commands they are implementing for this "graphical command line". It would be convenient to easily dump screenshots to image files without having to run something like Crowbar.
Anyway at least they are starting to acknowledge that not everyone uses a mouse or prefers using a trackpad over hitting keys. I mean keys as tactile buttons, not images of onscreen keyboard, like the iPhone or iPad.
To me, "responsive" means the amount of time between when I issue a command and when the computer has completed what I asked it to do.
Let’s look at a more interesting example. The current design of
mozilla.org is a responsive design. I want to see how the headings
will show up on a smaller screen. If I’ve been working on the page, I
would likely know some of the IDs and structure used in the page, so
I could enter a command like:
This is how web devs use "responsive design". It's being used by a web dev, in an article for other web devs. You might find it slightly confusing, but that's your problem, not theirs.
OS programmers and corn farmers use the word "kernel" to mean two different things, is this also a crime against nature?
paraphrasing the dictionary definition
the meaning is similar in both contexts you mention.
indeed if we asked someone who did not know what an "os kernel" was, they might think of the meaning they do know: e.g., the innermost part of a seed of a cereal or nut
and they might guess based on what they know.
have you ever heard the phrase "the computer program has become non-responsive"
e.g. a graphical web browser such as Firefox
Mozilla developers are not committing "crimes against nature". But nonetheless they do create some annoyances that millions of people have to endure. That's not the developers' problem, it's the users' problem. Some might search for solutions to the annoyances. Such solutions could be quite valuable to users. They might read things that are meant for "web developers" because that is where the annoyances come from. They are created by web developers.
Guess what, a responsive layout responds to media/container size variations, just like a computer program responds (or stops responding in your example) to user or system signals.
Is it not self-evident what "responsive design" means?