Have you used it recently? They’ve gone crazy with shitty toolbars, especially on windows

I really liked Edge like a year or two ago. It seems they are trying to destroy it as fast as possible.

‘computers were invented in America’ is rather a stretch.

Which is why no one said that. I read most of the article and I’m still not sure what you were annoyed about. I didn’t see anything US-centric, or even anglocentric really.

Where were computers invented in your mind? You could define computer multiple ways but some of the early things we called computers were indeed invented in the US, at MIT in at least one case.

I’ve yet to see anything but posts about this issue, so I’m confused by comments like this. I’m a daily user some days heavily and have been for a couple months.

This is a feature, not a bug

Most people don’t know the ins and outs of how these federated systems work, like you do

I don’t think you at all need to understand federation other than it means you can join from multiple places and that typically they mostly all talk so just pick a medium to popular one.

I still don’t really understand exactly how federation works and I don’t think it hinders me at all to not understand it.

This name will never not read to me as “bloo-skee”

we know that being a pain in the ass is your passion – your coworkers definitely have noticed

We shouldn’t. Stop trying to fuck this up.

I sure am glad I don’t work with a moron like you who would ship a fuckton of JavaScript to users because they’re too much of a pussy/old fuck to use modern practices

I mean you’re coming across like more of an old man than I am and that’s saying a lot more than you know. For the first 2 years people shit talked jQuery I didn’t agree with them. And then I got the opportunity to work without it and it seriously took like 3 days to completely change my mind. And all my pages were I believe about 100KB lighter.

jQuery is trash. And that doesn’t mean it wasn’t a great tool for its time. It’s truly obsolete now though. If you hate the native JavaScript stuff so much… I dunno maybe go work with Java or something?

What’s the difference

Your code reads like it’s from 1992 mainly, which makes sense I guess, given that you still find jQuery better than modern vanilla js. jQuery was created as a way to account for browser support challenges but is now obsolete. Anyhow, if I read “getElementById” in recent js code I would assume something was weird about that code. It’s old hat and there is rarely a reason to use it.

What is the right way is context dependent

Precisely my point. Which is why I think it’s opinionated in a bad way to arbitrarily pick one of them as the defacto. I often had trouble with jQuery’s .hide() method because while it felt natural to use it, it often conflicted with what actually needed to happen for good UX.

What you’re missing is that the hidden class can contain anything you want. Animations or whatever else. In other words, the idea that there is a “right” or “most common” way to hide an element is flawed at its core.

That’s actually a great example of the shortcomings of jQuery. There are multiple ways to hide an element yet they standardized on one that often wouldn’t work.

Also you’re using an ancient method getElementById… I think visuals should still be controlled with css. So what is the right way to do that in modern js? document.querySelector(‘.some-name’).classList.add(‘hidden’) with that class defined in the css, with whatever makes sense, including maybe a css transition.

Do you need to support 15 year old browsers? Practically all the jQuery features I used (which was a lot) are now available in standard js

Where’d you get your time machine, that you obviously would’ve needed to set to 2008 to find anyone actual recommending jQuery?

🤢🤮

Terrifying

What the fuck to literally all of this

I have like four different instances I’m using with accounts on each. I’m not sure the best route but feel like I should only have one or two accounts. Probably will keep the four for now just to see which instances seem most reliable. I’ll try and keep this one in the back of my mind in case I need another instance though :)

In my experience lemmy.world and reddthat go down a decent amount, especially the latter.