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| ehughes:
One improvement in the forum is the ability to cut/paste images into the body without a seperate "upload" or attachment. phpBB is very old piece of software and there are some useful improvements in web technology. Simply having cut/paste support would allow me to more quickly (i.e. directly from altium, etc) paste in examples without creating an intermedate imge or reference an offsite link somewhere else (which is very, very bad style). There are some little things like that that would make it a bit easier. Granted, there are those who will say "get off my lawn with web technology that isn't from 1996" but those are the folks that still think FTP is a secure way of moving files and personal webpages look like something from Geocities with the "under construction" gif. (Note, I assume this forum uses phpBB or a derivative as it looks very close and the page source looks like it) |
| Monkeh:
--- Quote from: ehughes on April 10, 2020, 05:14:37 pm ---phpBB is very old piece of software and there are some useful improvements in web technology. --- End quote --- Juuuust need to say again that this is not phpBB.. Sadly, many of those improvements come bundled with huge steps backwards, from both the user perspective and the operator.. |
| ehughes:
--- Quote ---Juuuust need to say again that this is not phpBB.. --- End quote --- Ok. It really screams phpBB technology with the "FTP" and "Marqee" buttons with the ridiculous emoji. |
| Bassman59:
--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on April 09, 2020, 10:52:51 am --- --- Quote ---Now that every browser has a built-in password manager, you don't even have to remember the passwords. --- End quote --- You're daft if you're going to rely on your browser to manage passwords. Much easier to lose them that way then forgetting them - use a separate password manager at minimum, one that isn't tied to a particular product or - worse - a particular instance of a product. --- End quote --- As tooki notes above, Safari (which I use) uses the Mac Keychain, so log-in/passwords are available not only to the browser but to any application which takes advantage of the Keychain. And the Keychain synchronizes across all of your devices, linked by an Apple ID. And it works. If I create or change a password for, say, my bank's website, the Keychain on my laptop (what I'm using now) is updated and then that change is pushed to other devices. When I log in using my desktop the new password is there. That said, my only issue with the Keychain is that it can't be shared. This means that if my wife changes the password for the AMZN account it updates only her keychain, not mine, so she has to tell me the new password. To get around that, we also use 1Password. Having two separate, parallel password managers means that if for some reason one of the databases is lost, the other one still exists. (This is the other "gotcha" mentioned by tooki.) I understand why Firefox and Opera all have their own password managers and synchronization schemes, but it would be nice if they let you take advantage of operating-system features. |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: ehughes on April 10, 2020, 05:14:37 pm ---Granted, there are those who will say "get off my lawn with web technology that isn't from 1996" but those are the folks that still think FTP is a secure way of moving files and personal webpages look like something from Geocities with the "under construction" gif. --- End quote --- I'd prefer a website that looks like something from 1996 any day over one that I have to allow scripts from a dozen different sources to even get it to load properly. I'm interested in content, I want to have as much information as possible with as little effort as possible required to extract it. All that added bloat only gets in my way. I wouldn't argue that FTP is particularly secure, but it does work perfectly well for moving files around and I can run it on my own hardware without relying on some 3rd party service, and it's secure enough for my purposes. |
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