Apple maps still has the globe!

I was under the impression that they had a globe only when zoomed out, then transitions to web Mercator as you zoom in. Is it not the case? FYI Apple Maps also shows a globe

but that is not about IE4

I see. Although filters were implemented in IE4, DirectX filters came about in IE5.5

However, the extend phase wasn't just IE4. They stopped piling on all sorts of non-standard vendor lock-in stuff after IE6. By the time IE7 came out, it was clear the web is here to stay.

> They stopped piling on all sorts of non-standard vendor lock-in stuff after IE6.

IE6 also stuck around a lot longer than previous versions. It was released in 2001; IE7 didn't show up until 2006, and was an optional update which many users skipped.

Many forget that IE was basically the only decent browser for most of the early 2000's. It was the defacto standard. Netscape 4.x was ancient and crashed every half hour. Mozilla/Firefox wasn't stable yet. Chrome wasn't out.

There was even an unpleasant period in the early 2000s where MSIE was the only viable browser on Mac OS. Safari and Firefox hadn't been released yet, Netscape 4.x never made the jump to OS X, and ports of the Mozilla suite were never particularly usable on the platform.

Yes, but the mac version had a better engine than ie on windows.

I jumped ship when ME came out. KDE had a good browser (Konqueror), the engine of which is now known as WebKit and powers Safari. When I wasn't using Konqueror I ran NN or whatever Mozilla version they had in the day. It worked great but ran slow and was a huge memory hog.

it was also terrible, but in a different way

> The performance gains in native compared to RN (new architecture) are minimal for normal UIs (except games)

And yet most apps feels distinctly different than native.

> The most valuable feature which RN have is OTA updates, this has been a game changer for us and many fast moving companies. Ability to release and iterate at light speed. On native you are on the mercy of the app stores for review

That's the real killer feature

> Silos of bugs on native - When you go native you might encounter bugs which appear only on either platform.

This still very much happens with RN on anything bigger than a toy app

> The project management of native teams is not always in sync - The teams often drift apart bevy iOS team might need 2 weeks just to make the app compatible with the new iPhone Fold (Duo) or Android team might encountered a blocker. Keeping them in sync for new features is really hard.

Speaking of which, what is the iPhone Duo support situation of RN right now?

I think the Duo support is not there, it will be there at the end of the year.

I wonder how it is possible that Fastly deployed a canary node and did not notice it was only responding 502s until PyPI alerted them

I’m sure this would not work under GDPR. The host surely isn’t a data processor.

well, that's interesting. the design it's a bit of a letdown - very very very low information density, lots of horizontal scrolling, a tab bar item dedicated to notifications (which one never changes) and another one dedicated to community (which is empty of content). Hopefully good data and good notifications make up for the poor design.

I wanted to like it so much, and the first book was so promising... but couldn't really enjoy the other two books. I understand why it's loved, but also can't see it being the greatest of our time, by a mile

Thanks, this is too easily forgotten