anaran's comments

anaran | 11 years ago | on: ES6 Repl Chrome Extension

Is that example in the screenshot a good one?

This works fine in a Content Scratchpad of nightly Firefox for me:

  // See also
  // https://github.com/richgilbank/ES6-Repl-Chrome-Extension/issues/12
  function add(a, b) {
    return a + b;
  }
  let nums = [5, 4];
  console.log("foobar" + add(...nums));

anaran | 11 years ago | on: Writing Extensions for Firefox Is Barely Worth the Trouble

Which versions of Chrome and Firefox did you compare to come to these conclusions?

Firefox has an Addon Debugger.

Also https://addons.mozilla.org (AMO) has much more accountable guidelines than https://chrome.google.com/webstore/ (cws).

cws has a lot of issues with lengthy reviews as well https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!searchin/ch...

Over at AMO you can monitor the review queue position of your addon, and there is even IRC channels #amo-editors and #amo to talk to.

Review mails have specific feedback about issues they find.

Google extension reviews, bug reports (e.g. Chrome or Android bugs[1]), googlecode site support[2], are an ever growing super massive black hole.

[1] e.g. https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/list?can=2&q=blueto... [2] https://code.google.com/p/support/issues/list

anaran | 11 years ago | on: Writing Extensions for Firefox Is Barely Worth the Trouble

Which tools and which versions of browsers are you comparing? I guess as a developer you would be using Canary Chrome vs. Nightly Firefox, to get the latest features, right?

I find Firefox less resource-hungry and with the WebIDE and Code Snippets that don't need to import/export to devtools source snippets it might even be ahead of Chrome.

anaran | 11 years ago | on: Writing Extensions for Firefox Is Barely Worth the Trouble

Paul already pointed you to nodejs based jpm, which will fully replace cfx soon.

Another great thing with the addon-sdk is it works with Firefox for Android as well (with some limitations).

Does Chrome for Android even have extensions yet?

anaran | 12 years ago | on: Thirty Years of Mac [video]

All they are trying to say is they don't want new customers.

Either you are inside their walled garden, or out (the better place for me).

anaran | 12 years ago | on: H2 {position: sticky} [video]

That was a very good presentation.

They don't seem to be interested in feedback on that site though.

{position: sticky} will definitely be a great feature to have.

anaran | 13 years ago | on: Lisp-like html as a replacement to bbcode/markup/textile

Yep, my thoughts exactly.

If you call it lispy it's gotta use parens.

The curlies immediately suggest some broken json or perl hash.

I can see the lispy spirit in applying the car to the cdr, and I like it!

One first bug report (or feature removal request):

  makes it to the output, but is replaced with the U+00A0 character in the input textarea.

{p like   so}

What's the concern with a real lisp syntax?

I for one like it!

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