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New comment by bumblebird in "Why Chrome has No NoScript"

bumblebird — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:37:52 +0000

Last time I measured, on a largely firefox userbase, adBlock was used by about 6%. Not enough really to bother about.

I'd expect the number who use NoScript to be 1-2% if that.

Note this is out of a mainly firefox userbase. For the general web those %'s would be far lower.

New comment by bumblebird in "High Performance Web Sites: Crockford, webhosting, online dating, JSON, alert"

bumblebird — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:47:40 +0000

New comment by bumblebird in "Web Sockets Now Available In Google Chrome"

bumblebird — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:12:43 +0000

That's why you would use it where available, instead of targeting.

if (browser.supportsWebSocket) useWebSocket(); else useComet();

New comment by bumblebird in "Reddit opens self-serve ads to the public (promo your site for as little as $20)"

bumblebird — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:23:13 +0000

Sure. I was more meaning that they may not be easy to monetize once they click through to your website.

New comment by bumblebird in "Web Sockets Now Available In Google Chrome"

bumblebird — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:13:22 +0000

If you care about IE6 these days, and aren't selling to corporate users forced to use it, then you're doing something wrong.

Also, you can just enable it when it's available, and fallback to comet etc when it's not.

New comment by bumblebird in "Reddit opens self-serve ads to the public (promo your site for as little as $20)"

bumblebird — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:08:26 +0000

The bidding seems like a complete lottery. What may work well one day, may completely fail the next. You could be throwing money away.

It's a sort of interesting idea, but completely impossible to calculate ROI etc before you spend.

Also, WTH "only accepting US credit cards." Hate it when sites pull that one.

New comment by bumblebird in "Reddit opens self-serve ads to the public (promo your site for as little as $20)"

bumblebird — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:03:27 +0000

Also they all run adblock etc.

New comment by bumblebird in "Web Sockets Now Available In Google Chrome"

bumblebird — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:35:54 +0000

Does the WebSocket spec allow for gzip/deflating streams as well? I can't see anywhere if it does or not.

New comment by bumblebird in "RightJS Version 1.5.0 Is Out"

bumblebird — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:31:17 +0000

How is my above comment defending it? :/ I actually extremely rarely use any js libs. I'd rather just do it myself. And no I'm nothing to do with the project.

New comment by bumblebird in "Is RightJS really faster than jQuery?"

bumblebird — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:59:50 +0000

There's some pretty sluggish websites out there due to poor use of js libs. Browse them on a phone or netbook and it all adds up.

You'd certainly manipulate hundreds of DOM elements at a time, consider say a twitter stream, where each post has "10 seconds ago" marker, and they all need updating.

New comment by bumblebird in "Is RightJS really faster than jQuery?"

bumblebird — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:57:32 +0000

>> "The jQuery example, from the beginning, was creating DOM elements from HTML strings, while RightJS was wrapping the document.createElement API. This is not the same thing and you cannot learn anything from comparing apples to oranges."

What you can learn though, is that using the built in DOM methods, or wrapping createElement if you need to, is far faster than using some other abstraction from the DOM.

New comment by bumblebird in "RightJS Version 1.5.0 Is Out"

bumblebird — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:58:39 +0000

To see if it performs better for their particular use case?

You know, choosing something based on how well it fits the problem?

New comment by bumblebird in "RightJS Version 1.5.0 Is Out"

bumblebird — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:41:49 +0000

It depends on your use case. I don't think you should be against something just because you have a solution you assume is the best it can be.

New comment by bumblebird in "RightJS Version 1.5.0 Is Out"

bumblebird — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:09:29 +0000

Write your own specific tests if you suspect bias.

I doubt there is any real bias though, js libs have different aims. Some aim to have complete browser support at the expense of speed+size, some assume a certain level of browser, and so come in much faster.

The fastest lib though is always going to be no lib. It's far easier to optimize your own code.

New comment by bumblebird in "RightJS Version 1.5.0 Is Out"

bumblebird — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:55:42 +0000

It depends what your writing, and your target market. Most people using webapps/modern websites are doing so with good recent browsers.

New comment by bumblebird in "Twitter Spawned 50,000 Apps To Date, Will Open Up Firehose For More"

bumblebird — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:03:33 +0000

So if everyone is to have access to 'firehose', why did ms+goog pay for it? :/

New comment by bumblebird in "Step one is admitting you have a problem"

bumblebird — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:29:15 +0000

What is wrong with you HN? "Getting out of hand" relates to the rate of change. Not a single data point.

New comment by bumblebird in "Google Chrome for Linux"

bumblebird — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:56:47 +0000

This may be a niche problem, but I found an interesting bug in chrome yesterday.

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=7357

Basically, if you do a redirect (30x) then the referrer isn't set. This means that a number of things are broken. The referrer should be set, and is set in all other browsers.

For example, if someone clicks on a tinyurl link, which redirects to your website, you won't get info on where they came from. The referrer will be empty.

Bug was reported in feb, I'm not sure why it's not been fixed, since it's a pretty big bug.

New comment by bumblebird in "Step one is admitting you have a problem"

bumblebird — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:06:28 +0000

Cool, but you can't say "it's getting out of hand" from a single data point.

New comment by bumblebird in "Step one is admitting you have a problem"

bumblebird — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:40:49 +0000

What startup mentality. Where? When did it start getting out of hand?

Some data needed there me thinks.