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[H. S. Teoh]

On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 01:05:59PM -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Jan 2013 14:24:52 -0800
> Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tuesday, January 01, 2013 22:31:32 Simen Kjaeraas wrote:
> > > > Understatement of the year. :-P
> > > 
> > > Already? Wow.
> > 
> > LOL.
> > 
> > Well, it's actually very easy to make the understatement of the year
> > when there have been very few understatements already made. The
> > question is whether it will _stay_ the understatement of the year,
> > but knowing Nick, it probably will. ;)
> > 
> > - Jonathan M Davis
> 
> lol, probably right ;)
> 
> At least it isn't flash though, I'll give JS that much credit at
> least. (But then flash seems to be nearly dead now anyway, or at least
> flash player, so FWIW...)

Really?? I thought youtube still uses Flash. I'm no fan of youtube, but
it *is* a significant data point, considering that some people are
actually making a living off homemade videos posted on youtube.


> In any case, we're D, we're systems/native, I think we can do much
> better than Disqus, and I submit Vibe.d/DFeed/etc as evidence that
> settling for Disqus is below us.

Yeah what about plain old HTML submit forms? One can always spice it up
with JS to replace the HTTP POST with the newfangled AJAX stuff, for
when the user has JS turned off. (It'd be hard to justify the additional
effort, though, unless Nick volunteers to write the code. ;-P)


T

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