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New comment by account42 in "Xorg-server 26.1.0 rc1"

account42 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:05:13 +0000

To be precise, X.org is/was a replacement to the project but a continuation of the software. AKA a fork that won. You sill have the xf86 prefix everywhere in X.org

New comment by account42 in "Xorg-server 26.1.0 rc1"

account42 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:50:40 +0000

It may be reasonable when you emulate a completely different platform but not when your are providing a compatibility feature in a supposed successor platform that can be designed to support that use case.

New comment by account42 in "Xorg-server 26.1.0 rc1"

account42 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:44:39 +0000

Yes and more fundamentally they should have acknowledged that not everyone needs to be treated with the security model of a mobile app.

New comment by account42 in "Xorg-server 26.1.0 rc1"

account42 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:42:45 +0000

People aren't lamenting over Wayland not doing font rendering or audio but they care about display system features like screen recording and input automation that Wayland intentionally hobbles.

New comment by account42 in "Xorg-server 26.1.0 rc1"

account42 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:40:57 +0000

Do you also loose sleep over the fact that everyone you let into your home could decide to rearrange your furniture and smash your TV and go trawling through a bunch of private stuff?

New comment by account42 in "Xorg-server 26.1.0 rc1"

account42 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:31:32 +0000

More importantly, adding more security has a real cost because either you just can't do some things or need to punch a bunch of custom-built holes in your security. If you can avoid paying that cost by having only trusted software why wouldn't you.

New comment by account42 in "Xorg-server 26.1.0 rc1"

account42 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:29:31 +0000

It's better than the security of pretty much anything physical in your home. Somehow you seem to be OK with your stove letting anyone turn it on and have other solutions to deal with misuse. The same solutions apply to your virtual desktop.

New comment by account42 in "Xorg-server 26.1.0 rc1"

account42 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:27:46 +0000

X has had compositing for ages as well. That didn't require preventing applications from moving the cursor or simulating keyboard input and even screen grabs still work fine.

New comment by account42 in "Xorg-server 26.1.0 rc1"

account42 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:23:00 +0000

Yeah people never stop to ask "security from whom". I don't need my display servers to secure me from the tools I choose to run.

New comment by account42 in "Xorg-server 26.1.0 rc1"

account42 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:21:13 +0000

We already had a similar situation with PulseAudio. Happily outlived that monstrosity.

New comment by account42 in "Xorg-server 26.1.0 rc1"

account42 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:18:08 +0000

The middle man was there to make sure everyone understood each other. Now simple things like taking a screenshot requires programs to speak multiple different languages.

New comment by account42 in "HTML Can Do That"

account42 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:26:12 +0000

What would be the advantage of using this attribute compared to the various ways to permanently hide elements?

New comment by account42 in "HTML Can Do That"

account42 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:20:18 +0000

I wish both srcset and elements wouldn't be so redundantly verbose by forcing you to specify the full (relative) URL for each image when they usually only differ by a small part specifying the resolution or format. Sure, transfer-encoding will mostly nullify the overhead but it's still annoying when editing the HTML manually.

New comment by account42 in "HTML Can Do That"

account42 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:16:35 +0000

Exactly. I want tings to work as defined by the OS I deliberately chose.

New comment by account42 in "HTML Can Do That"

account42 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:09:16 +0000

HTML has done interactivity before JS existed. No reason to not add support for sorting tables. JS is better suited to only handle non-standard cases where no native functionality exist as browser vendors can afford to spend infinitely more time to make sorting better than you can spend on doing it for one website.

New comment by account42 in "HTML Can Do That"

account42 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:06:24 +0000

It's a bit annoying when the sorting leaks into URLs people share, a bit like if the scroll position would be automatically included there.

New comment by account42 in "HTML Can Do That"

account42 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:05:15 +0000

No to sorting tables where all the data is already available locally.

New comment by account42 in "HTML Can Do That"

account42 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 11:56:49 +0000

And lucky for Google, browser vendors (including Google) even decided that caches shouldn't work cross origin so this request needs to be made for every site even if you already visited another site that used the same resource.

New comment by account42 in "HTML Can Do That"

account42 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 11:54:48 +0000

It's the norm to try to re-implement browser functionality in JS but it is very far from the norm for the re-implementation to work as well and as reliably as the native browser functionality.

New comment by account42 in "Google has stopped pushing Git tags for some Android source code"

account42 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 11:28:50 +0000

For extra lulz you should get someone with a banned Google account to request the source code. Then Google needs to either unban the account, make an exception for Google docs or deliver via another mechanism.