Comments on: Why do I even bother with the Internet any more????

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 15:24:53 +0000

Yeah, I’ve looked at them just now and decided to stay away. For chrome, you need to run an external server to make this work, and as various components of the system (mainly chrome) change the server becomes obsolete. In other words, this is taking a jackhammer to scraping a bit of dried pasta off the table, and sometimes the jackhammer is unavailable.

I think it would be good if web developers simply included hooks to allow easy use of an external editor. The fact that this is not routine these days tells me a lot.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 15:19:31 +0000

travc, have you used these? I tried some of these solutions when they came out and they were annoyingly slow and clunky, but it is a great idea, worth retrying .

By: travc

travc — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 10:27:07 +0000

If you use Firefox, there is a useful plugin called “Its All Text!” which allows you to use the editor of your choice to fill in a textbox.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/its-all-text/
(There is quite probably even better plugins along this line.)

You can apparently do something similar using Chrome and emacs.
http://superuser.com/questions/261689/its-all-text-for-chrome

By: Nemo

Nemo — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 06:05:11 +0000

A setting I use in about:config in Firefox:

image.animation_mode user set string once

Of course it’s a nuisance in the rare case that I actually want to watch an animation — I have to view the image, then reload it. I used to have an extension that let me rerun the animation from a context menu, but it hasn’t been kept up to date.

I tried turning it off for a while on one GIF-heavy site, but my CPU usage went way up. So forget that.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 01:30:56 +0000

Collin, I use a system that does not get viruses.

By: Collin

Collin — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 01:08:21 +0000

I’ve never had this happen, that I can remember. Sounds like you have a virus.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 00:10:20 +0000

Rosie, your blog looks like an evening at home with my wife when she’s doing her muscle research at the U.

For those who don’t know what that means, just click on Rosie’s name and watch Science in Action.

By: Rosie Redfield

Rosie Redfield — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 23:56:13 +0000

Does anyone care that all these interfaces are broken?

I feel exactly the same way about the incorrect aspect ratios I see in so many photos, videos and presentations. And yes, I am getting OLD.

By: Mike Haubrich

Mike Haubrich — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 23:52:39 +0000

I am pretty sure that WCCO does this to re-load their ad feeds. They haven’t figured out how to separate their dynamic content.

By: Art

Art — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 20:16:02 +0000

An acquaintance called such text scrolls, and sitting there blankly looking at them, ‘text-based pachinko’. There are similarities. You half glaze over looking at a wall of text. And sometimes an improbable even occurs, your eye catches a text string that means something, and you get a small payoff.