On Wednesday, 14 December 2011 at 17:04:03 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
...and please, can I mention FF2 *ONCE* without some crusader
deciding I need to be saved by "upgrade your browser"
evangelism?
But Firefox Eleven has TwitFace integration built RIGHT INTO IT!
:P
- It *significantly* slows down the page load. I'll describe it
this way: FF2 is well known to be super-slow compared to every
other modern browser, including newer versions of FF. And yet,
my twitface-blocking FF2 loads the page many times *faster*
(it's *very* noticable) than *every* modern
non-twitface-blocking browser I've thrown at it.
I plan to take an attempt at a DFeed-powered news syndication
widget to replace the Twitter one. Until then, to speed up page
load it can be placed in an iframe. Anyone could put together a
pull request for that.
- I think it may be crashing Iron (ie, Chrome sans the
malware). It's either the twit feed or the google translator,
but something on the homepage is crashing Iron/Chrome for me
(it happens after the main HTML/CSS loads and gets displayed).
Unintentional browser crashes are a fault on the browser's part.
No website should be able to crash a browser. Crashes may
indicate security vulnerabilities.
- People who care about twitface can subscribe to it
themselves. Forcing it on everyone else is not only rude, but
it effectively amounts to an advertisement for twitface right
on D's homepage - which is grossly inappropriate (even
regardless of anyone's personal opinions of twitface). It's no
different from sticking "Drink Mountin Dew!" up on there.
I think it's not any less inappropriate than using Google page
translation widget (because Google offers one of the best free
website translation service), or linking to Wikipedia or Google's
Lucky Search for certain terms in the documentation, etc.
Rejecting a corporate solution that is a de-facto standard due to
non-practical reasons would be a disservice to users. I don't use
Twitter, but D_Programming has 801 followers, so some people
obviously find it useful. Not mentioning it on the website would
make it undiscoverable, and having a custom manually-updated news
feed would be duplicated effort.
- dfeed Andrei Alexandrescu
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