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[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Wednesday, 14 December 2011 at 17:04:03 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
wrote:
> ...and please, can I mention FF2 *ONCE* without some crusader 
> deciding I need to be saved by "upgrade your browser" 
> evangelism?

But Firefox Eleven has TwitFace integration built RIGHT INTO IT! 
:P

> - It *significantly* slows down the page load. I'll describe it 
> this way: FF2 is well known to be super-slow compared to every 
> other modern browser, including newer versions of FF. And yet, 
> my twitface-blocking FF2 loads the page many times *faster* 
> (it's *very* noticable) than *every* modern 
> non-twitface-blocking browser I've thrown at it.

I plan to take an attempt at a DFeed-powered news syndication 
widget to replace the Twitter one. Until then, to speed up page 
load it can be placed in an iframe. Anyone could put together a 
pull request for that.

> - I think it may be crashing Iron (ie, Chrome sans the 
> malware). It's either the twit feed or the google translator, 
> but something on the homepage is crashing Iron/Chrome for me 
> (it happens after the main HTML/CSS loads and gets displayed).

Unintentional browser crashes are a fault on the browser's part. 
No website should be able to crash a browser. Crashes may 
indicate security vulnerabilities.

> - People who care about twitface can subscribe to it 
> themselves. Forcing it on everyone else is not only rude, but 
> it effectively amounts to an advertisement for twitface right 
> on D's homepage - which is grossly inappropriate (even 
> regardless of anyone's personal opinions of twitface). It's no 
> different from sticking "Drink Mountin Dew!" up on there.

I think it's not any less inappropriate than using Google page 
translation widget (because Google offers one of the best free 
website translation service), or linking to Wikipedia or Google's 
Lucky Search for certain terms in the documentation, etc. 
Rejecting a corporate solution that is a de-facto standard due to 
non-practical reasons would be a disservice to users. I don't use 
Twitter, but D_Programming has 801 followers, so some people 
obviously find it useful. Not mentioning it on the website would 
make it undiscoverable, and having a custom manually-updated news 
feed would be duplicated effort.