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Why browsers are bloated

Name: Anonymous 2014-07-27 0:20

https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/blob/master/Source/WebCore/platform/Scrollbar.cpp
https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/blob/master/Source/WebCore/platform/win/ScrollbarThemeWin.cpp
Let's reinvent the fucking scrollbar, which every goddamn platform with a UI already has, and make it behave subtly different from the native one!

Right-click a native scrollbar in some other app:
- Scroll Here
- Top
- Bottom
- Page Up
- Page Down
- Scroll Up
- Scroll Down

Right-click a scrollbar in Chrome:
- Back
- Forward
- Reload
- Save As...
...

Right-click a scrollbar in Firefox and Opera:
Absolutely fucking nothing happens!

What the fuck!? How did these terminally retarded idiots get involved in creating one of the most important pieces of software to the average user?

Name: Anonymous 2016-04-23 9:47

>>987
CS freshmen should be forced to write x86 opcode decoder, or even better a simulator, to get the first hand experience on the sheer madness contained therein.

>>988
Calling ARM cudder class is somewhat unfair towards fine lads over at cambridge (try MIPS instead) - considering that the ARM ISA appears to be more or less sane as opposed to x86.

The issue with people like cudder is that they live in alternate reality, thinking that computers are the same 80386 from 30 years ago, and things like out of order, uops and caches are just lies meant to subvert their fragile world of denial.

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