<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: jaffathecake</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jaffathecake</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 02:05:12 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=jaffathecake" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jaffathecake in "Show HN: What's my JND? – a colour guessing game"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A lot. My scores:<p>- 0.0028 on my MacBook pro screen<p>- 0.0045 on my Dell monitor<p>- 0.0033 on my Pixel 10 pro<p>And those scores are pretty consistent.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:15:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47321697</link><dc:creator>jaffathecake</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47321697</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47321697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jaffathecake in "Show HN: What's my JND? – a colour guessing game"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The associated deep-dive article is great <a href="https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/too-much-color/" rel="nofollow">https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/too-much-color/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:06:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47321217</link><dc:creator>jaffathecake</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47321217</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47321217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jaffathecake in "Goodbye InnerHTML, Hello SetHTML: Stronger XSS Protection in Firefox 148"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>fwiw, if you serve your page with:<p>Content-Security-Policy: require-trusted-types-for 'script'<p>…then it blocks you from passing regular strings to the methods that don't sanitize.</p>
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<p>Fwiw, JPEG XL takes around 2.5x the time to decode as an equivalent AVIF, and has worse compression <a href="https://jakearchibald.com/2025/present-and-future-of-progressive-image-rendering/#jpeg-xl" rel="nofollow">https://jakearchibald.com/2025/present-and-future-of-progres...</a></p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://jakearchibald.com/2025/importing-vs-fetching-json/">https://jakearchibald.com/2025/importing-vs-fetching-json/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45680187">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45680187</a></p>
<p>Points: 5</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 10:07:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://jakearchibald.com/2025/importing-vs-fetching-json/</link><dc:creator>jaffathecake</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45680187</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45680187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jaffathecake in "Firefox Interop Feature Ranking"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I know this isn't quite what you mean, but when you first hit the page, the list is in a random order, but it's then stable across reloads.<p>I considered the 'vs' approach, but I worried that there might be a lot of iterations where one or two of the options would be things that the person didn't understand, or didn't care about.<p>How do you feel about something like this: The user goes through the long list, picking what they understand and don't dislike, then the 'vs' system is there for helping determine the order of those items. Then the user gets the ranking which they can tweak.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 09:06:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45641614</link><dc:creator>jaffathecake</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45641614</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45641614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jaffathecake in "Firefox Interop Feature Ranking"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Author of the app here. This was quickly thrown together, and something we'd like to improve on next year. Any & all feedback is welcome.<p>We've already been looking at the results, and it has influenced the direction of multiple vendors in the process, but of course it isn't the only thing we look at.<p>We're going to continue to look at this throughout the process, so it's still worth getting a list together.<p>Whether we can release the raw results of this (and to what degree), will involve discussion between browser vendors, so it isn't something we can commit to right now. I know that's not… great… but it's a delicate process (one that I'm still personally getting used to - it's my first year 'on the inside').</p>
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<p>Author of the app here. This was quickly thrown together, and something we'd like to improve on next year. Any & all feedback is welcome.</p>
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<p>Browsers don't want to add new ways of running script. That said, I wonder if `<?xml-stylesheet type="text/javascript" href="script.js"?>` could work. It's kinda weird, but `xml-stylesheet` can already run script via XSLT, so it isn't a new way to run script.</p>
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<p>Alpha channel support in x265 is very interesting, as this was only previously possible with paid-for Apple software (and the resulting file sizes were high). Some details from when I last looked at it <a href="https://jakearchibald.com/2024/video-with-transparency/#encoding-hevc" rel="nofollow">https://jakearchibald.com/2024/video-with-transparency/#enco...</a></p>
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<p>That document order thing doesn't sound right to me. Here's a demo where the popover appears before the anchor <a href="https://codepen.io/jaffathecake/pen/MYargba?editors=1100" rel="nofollow">https://codepen.io/jaffathecake/pen/MYargba?editors=1100</a></p>
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<p>`position-anchor` is a high-level simple way of doing it, and it comes with the restrictions you mention. However, the `anchor()` function, which is also mentioned in the article, gives you the kind of flexibility you want.<p><a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/anchor" rel="nofollow">https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/anchor</a></p>
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<p>I guess you're being downvoted as a general nay-sayer, but you're right. I tried this feature last month and a bunch of browser bugs and design issues got in the way. I reported them, and they're being worked on <a href="https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/12466" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/12466</a><p>The `margin:0` issue was particularly frustrating & imo should have been covered in the article, as it's a real gotcha when trying to use popover & anchor positioning in combination.</p>
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<p>> odd that the original post didnt have it either<p>Totally honestly, it was a lot of work, I got bored, and it was diminishing returns for the later parts.</p>
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<p>I linked to it without realising that. I didn't know Aaron personally, but I remember people speaking fondly of him.</p>
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<p>Right, but it should be easy for the reader to decide whether to divert to the additional content. A superscript number tells you nothing about the additional content. Whereas on the web, link text or a details summary can help you make a decision.</p>
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<p>There are absolutely accessibility issues <a href="https://adrianroselli.com/2022/09/brief-note-on-super-and-subscript-text.html" rel="nofollow">https://adrianroselli.com/2022/09/brief-note-on-super-and-su...</a></p>
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<p>It's ok, but you're still being taken out of the flow. Especially as the notes appear arbitrarily on the left or right. And yeah, you have to find your place again afterwards. It's way better than scrolling solutions though.<p>That particular example on mobile falls back to a revealing pattern, which is pretty good.<p>It still has the problem where it's just a test of your curiosity. You don't really know what the supplementary content covers until you expand it. The link text is just a superscript number which is kinda useless.<p>This is why I prefer the solutions in the article where the supplementary content has a heading that hints at the content.</p>
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<p>The other issue is the poor link text (a superscript number) which gives no clue as to the content at the other end of the link. Like I said, it just becomes a test of your curiosity. Whereas the other examples have headings relevant to the content.</p>
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<p>> Perhaps the author meant that a footnotes's form, i.e. a number or symbol, doesn't provide context for the note itself.<p>Yes. I was referring to the uselessness of the linking text being a superscript number, which is as bad, if not worse, than "click here".<p>> While this claim is sound, it is irrelevant because a footnote link shouldn't need context; the sentence provides it.<p>It doesn't. The sentence gives you information about the general topic, but not about the content of the footnote, and if it's worth visiting. Whereas the note & details examples have a heading that describes the topic of the supplementary content.<p>> 1) All three options are more distracting because they occupy more space. And (ii) and (iii) add color. And I'd guess that readers are more likely to unintentionally skim<p>Are they too distracting or too easy to ignore? Make your mind up!<p>> In fact, a footnote occupies the minimum space possible.<p>Using smaller text is a bug, not a feature.<p>> 2) Option (ii) adds lots of unseemly vertical space to the webpage.<p>Vertical space is cheap. And in the example it's hardly lots.<p>> 3) Option (iii) moves the webpage text below the note up and down. This interferes more with the reading experience than does the static popover.<p>It only moves it down, and then you can read the content in flow.<p>> 4) Options (ii) and (iii) are not portable over copy paste. If you copy a webpage with these elements into another file, you'll have to manually rearrange them to appear as actual footnotes.<p>That's a feature, not a bug. Content is in the correct order.<p>> 5) All options, as implemented by the author, eliminate the key-value nature of footnotes. One cannot refer to a particular parenthetical, `note`, or `<details>` because they aren't numbered.<p>So? They have headings instead.</p>
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