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sonnypon Mozilla Webrender: rendering any webpage at several hundred FPS

This is awesome and incredibly useful.

Bravo

Let's see if I can get even more excited, Would it be possible to render SVG in the same fashion ? I guess SVG can be considered a scene graph as well, maybe even more than CSS is.

sonnypon Enable Node.js to Run with Microsoft's ChakraCore Engine

How so? I just loaded es6 kangax table in Canary "Version 49.0.2566.0 canary (64-bit)" and it reports 62% for current browser.

EDIT: 92% reported for "Version 50.0.2626.0 canary (64-bit)"

nice job!

sonnypon Enable Node.js to Run with Microsoft's ChakraCore Engine

https://github.com/zpao/spidernode

sonnypon Am I unique? See your browser footprint

Also https://panopticlick.eff.org/

sonnypon Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client

Don't forget servo. Even if it's not official yet, Servo is the way to go for Firefox. Implementing XUL in servo would be a huge mistake.

sonnypon GetChip, Raspberry Pi Zero Competitor (8$)

More information can be found at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598272670/chip-the-wor...

sonnypon I hate almost all software. (2011)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3055154

sonnypon Habits of a Happy Node Hacker

It was an npm issue, fixed in npm 3.

http://www.felixrieseberg.com/npm-v3-is-out-and-its-a-really...

sonnypon Catalan Regional Parliament Approves Plan for Independence from Spain

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10534571

sonnypon Facebook uses FlatBuffers on one billion Android devices

sonnypon Germany guarantees a right by law to use the router you want, regardless of ISP [pdf]

> ISPs regularly send customers routers with known security flaws, already-exposed backdoors that hackers can break into and use laughably weak WiFi security by default (if any at all).

In Belgium, one of the big ISP (can't remember which one) delivered router with open wifi ...

In Spain my ISP only uses the router mac address to 'verify' the equipment.

sonnypon New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

The Librem 15 has i7 and backlit keyboard.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/purism/librem-15

sonnypon New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft

Probably, also the screen doesn't have any port.

sonnypon Help Test Private Browsing with Tracking Protection in Firefox Beta 42

It might be the first step before rolling tracking protection to 'normal' browsing.

sonnypon OpenH264 is a codec library which supports H.264 encoding and decoding

The URL point to losslessh264 a fork of OpenH264

> "we built a recompression layer that can get additional win ontop of CAVLC and other algorithms."

sonnypon PHP in a JavaScript world

https://ghost.org/

sonnypon The Future of Developing Firefox Add-Ons

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10097630

sonnypon The Future of Developing Firefox Add-ons

Use Firefox Beta or Firefox Nightly

sonnypon Heim – A real-time community platform

XMPP protocol has an extension for that http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0201.html IIRC oneteam[0] supports it.

[0] http://oneteam.im/

sonnypon XMPP Myths

> NOTICE: This document is Humorous. It MAY provide amusement but SHOULD NOT be taken seriously.

EDIT: Also the X in XMPP stands for eXtensible not XML

sonnypon Open Letter to Microsoft’s CEO: Don’t Roll Back the Clock on Choice and Control

"we've got instead IndexedDB over WebSQL (which many devs choose to wrap)"

It doesn't matter how developers choose to use IndexedDB, what does is for a Web standard to be sane and WebSQL never was. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9978713

"asm.js over NaCl (which v8 team as shown doesn't require a special compiler mode to optimize for)"

I don't see how not requiring a special compiler is an argument against it.

"ES5/ES5.1/ES6/ES7 language bloat over Your-Choice-Of-JS-Successor language or actually fixing the issues with JS"

ES5/ES5.1/ES6/ES7 ARE efforts to fix issues with JS and mostly driven by Mozilla.

sonnypon Open Letter to Microsoft’s CEO: Don’t Roll Back the Clock on Choice and Control

About WebSQL Firefox already had (and still has) Sqlite dependency (it is uses for bookmarks, history, ...) it is not the issue. The problem is that the Web SQL standard states "User agents must implement the SQL dialect supported by Sqlite 3.6.19." [0] which made agents rely on a outdated dependency and non standard (sqlite is not SQL ansible compatible) SQL. A nightmare for Web standards. They made the right (and hard) choice.

NaCl isn't portable (Mozilla is working on Web Assembly)

Dart excerpt taken from Dart FAQ; question: "Will the Dart VM get into Chrome?" response: "No. Dart is designed to compile to JavaScript to run across the modern web, and the dart2js compiler is a top priority for the team." [1]

[0] http://www.w3.org/TR/webdatabase/#web-sql

[1] https://www.dartlang.org/support/faq.html#q-will-the-dart-vm...

sonnypon ES6 Performance

See http://kpdecker.github.io/six-speed/ for overview and better readability.

sonnypon Firefox 39.0 released

For Linux see https://www.kirsle.net/blog/entry/make-emoji-work-in-linux

sonnypon Mozilla Games Technology Roadmap

it's probably a bug, you should report it along with OS and hardware details

sonnypon Volvo Life Paint

It appears to be a rebranded http://www.albedo100.co.uk/ .

sonnypon Show HN: Xr – A modern ES6 Promise-based XMLHttpRequest wrapper

Fetch doesn't support progress events nor reading headers before processing the body.