Web Browser Leftovers
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Daniel Miller ☛ The Sad Demise of Pagination
I remember when “infinite scroll” was first developed, and the above UX degradation was pointed out, but it became the standard anyway. Since then, the frameworks and libraries we now rely on to build the web have been created with no other method for displaying long lists of content.
Now I feel a sense of relief when I am (occasionally) presented with an actually-paginated list of content or search results. Like that one appliance from the 80s that still Just Works and never Just Breaks.
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India Times ☛ Smart surfing: How AI could change the browsing game
Arc browser is not a household name, but it has stolen a march in bringing AI to your devices. Arc Search — currently available for iPhones — has a nice ‘Browse for Me’ feature. Using that, for any question you ask, it crawls the Web, reads multiple pages and gives you a really neat summary, all within just a few seconds. It is still early days though, and it is expected to arrive on other platforms (Windows, Android) soon, but Arc gives you a fine glimpse into what AI can do.
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Roger Comply ☛ HTTP/3 on Nginx – Be QUIC or be Dead
The Nginx mainline branch (currently version 1.25.3) has implemented support for HTTP/3 and I want it on my server. The first order of business will be to switch from the nginx stable branch (currently version 1.24.0) to the mainline branch. As Arch Linux provides both Nginx branches in their repository, it’s just a matter of performing a quick drop-in replacement.