FF everywhere but my phone (Chrome). I like FF's dev tools and Chrome still has f'ed up font rendering and crappy anti aliasing on image resize.

I just wished FF supported CSS masking. I've got plans for that (in house design application) and waiting for it is killing me ...

I like it quite a lot actually!

I was a yelling boss once ... But only because I found it was what those staff needed to get motivated to do their jobs.

I once tore into a guy and could be heard through the walls. When I came out other staff were looking at me with big eyes ... "What's wrong?"

I was startled, because I was in a great mood. "What do you mean?"

"Why are you mad at Colin?"

"Oh! I'm not mad at all. That's just what he seems to need to get moving sometimes, that's all."

He was a decent fellow ... Just needed a cattle prod to get him moving sometimes!

Colin looked me up a few years later, after I had left the group and he had gotten a promotion, thanking me for being the best boss he'd ever had ... Which surprised the hell out of me!

That's just to say, a yelling boss might not be a horrible person, he may simply be looking at the employee in front of him and thinking, "Shit ... If he really needs it, I guess I can tell and scream at him ..."

On the other hand, he may just be an arsehole ...

JavaScript is mostly single threaded and blocking, except for I/O and UI stuff that has been moved out of the mainthread

But God help us if I/O like Ajax weren't async. The web would truly suck ...

Have you looked at promises and promises.all()? Or is jQuery.when() available?

You could easily create a promise which waits for all Ajax calls to complete before executing.

I know you said it doesn't need to be done in the client side this time, but next time it might ...

Used plenty of that tonight!

Codepen.io at least auto refreshes for you.

I've used it for a few small things.

The user!

Ha! I've got 5 cats that look pretty much just like that ...

My beef is that I always liked placing my var declarations up top. Too many vars would often be a hint I should look at refactoring or extracting functionality. And they also served as a quick TLDR; of what I could expect the function to be working with.

Now with const, you can't hoist, so I've potentially got const statements in places I don't want them.

Yep. All my webdev is done in it.

I like that!

When I play spider solitaire I sometimes narrate it as if two sportscasters were watching a high stakes match ... The sportscasters often greatly resemble the tv hosts from the movie Dodgeball.

Just makes things a little more fun. :)

I actually don't have any issue with it ...

Occasionally I wrestle with little things, but it mostly pretty darned straightforward.

They got these promo ads down to a very specific formula!

That and probably a bit of industrial espionage ...

Although that MS one looked a bit trimmed from the original I saw, tbh.

My daughter and I visited Budapest a year ago, we really enjoyed our time there. Beautiful city!

I thought you were gonna say code that grows on shit. In the dark.

Isn't that event.target === event.currentTarget and event.stopPropagation? Or did I misunderstand something?

@r4nter I've got a couple of W10 pro machines that I use regularly ... Both have the anniversary updates and both nag me and warn me that updates are needed ...and that they're going to force a restart eventually ... I simply pick a time I'm willing to walk away and tell it to go ahead in do it.

Are you saying that there are machines that *don't* nag, but do it without any warning?

Cuz that would warrant a rant. :)

Why in the world are you using Firebug ... ? Crazy bloated and slow.

Firefox's own devtools are way better ... At least, last I bothered checking Firebug. Source code editing would be nice, I admit.

Oh and changing image source via JS code does indeed set it in the devtools display as well. I can sit and watch all of the DOM changes I like highlight as they happen in devtools.

@sebastian Interesting. I've yet to visit a site that crashes my browser. I've seen site so choked with advertising junk that they were practically unviewable without an adblocker, but that was never due to CSS or the original site design. That was horrible advertising.

As for coding to IE7 standards, surely you're not suggesting web developers limit themselves to designing with and testing for a 10 year old browser?

No machine of mine has run IE in ... well more than 10 years. And I'm perfectly content to skip any part of the market that still is. It's just more trouble than it's worth.

I understand that's not the case for every situation though.

Anyway, my point was simply that an attractive UI, well executed, enhances functionality and adds value to the application, it does not get in it's way.

A poorly designed UI gets in the way of the features we spend so much time implementing.

Or we could just use the CLI in the browser. :)

@sebastian I don't think anyone said anything about useless. A visual design can be used to communicate potential functionality to encourage exploration of capabilities, current status, not to mention feedback during an action. Additionally, choice of whitespace, visual hierarchies all make a notable difference in comprehending relationships in a UI. Animation can be used to draw attention to a changes element or something that needs attention. Or even to distract the user briefly while the system does something a bit more time consuming and prevent user frustration.

I don't see any of that being useless.

I did the backend first, so I could implement all of that functionality and give my front end something to talk to as I put it together.

It wasn't perfect and I've had to change/add stuff as I've gone, but i much preferred not switching constantly and staying in one environment as much as possible.

@xroad It's an iterative process though. W8 started it and W10 continues it. More of the UI migrates over in time. In an ideal world, sure, the entire system would be updated in one go ... But the thing is a behemoth... and MS relies on supporting business legacy code too much to make a clean cut (unfortunately).

That and there are a billion users so any major changes will be met with gnashing of teeth and foot stomping by many.

@thmnmlst I also prefer MS's recent design efforts. They're still dragging a lot of legacy crap around, but their Surface line of hardware, W10 and wphone have some great design to them.

Ah ... bikeshedding!

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/...

@kileak Thanks, I'll check it out! This file is backed regularly, but I appreciate the tip!

I have a test file that I use as a scratchpad ... test function calls, small snippets and utilities. I just looked ... it is over 13000 lines!

I just push more into it as I go.

Sometimes I need to re-do something I did and I can pull that to the top, or extract it into its own utility of I think it's worth it ...

Perhaps it's time for me to start another though ... ?

That's a legit rant!

background-image in the containing div?

Dude ... the last few minutes you should spend standing ... then no one has to know your shame.

It's what I do anyway ... :)

Well ... that's a legit point though. Isn't it?

In movie editing some directors and editors can get down to "trim one frame off this segment" levels of pickiness until they get the right effect.

I know I tweak and tweak and tweak timings and easings until it feels good.

Of course I often come back and rip it out as superfluous crap ... but that's another subject altogether!