All what should become a great mess later started with a single bug report some time back: “[SlowAudio] HTML5 Live stream has bad sound and video” (dramatic music effect) found by Gwendragon, who in the following events tested, logged and categorized a lot of […]
Category: Technology
Rest in Peace, KartOO
Back then … Whenever I knew what information I needed but didn’t know which search terms would lead me to this information, you were there and helped me reliably. I only needed to enter a search term and you showed me a cloud of […]
The odyssey of finding a certain video
This is only a short rant about the stupidity of a bunch of search engines that basically all use the same search database. I knew that I had once seen a video of Brendan Eich (more than a year ago) that dealt with classes […]
How To add Search Engines that use POST to Vivaldi
There is a long standing problem with Vivaldi not adding every kind of search engines, e.g. the current implementation still does not add search engines like SearX This happens because those engines use POST instead of GET in their search forms and Vivaldi does […]
In the Name of Accessibility: Check Your Alt Attributes!
Occasionally I am browsing the net with images switched off because I am only interested in the text and don’t want to download gigantic amounts of decorative images – especially since several pages started to use HDPI images which are 4 times the size […]
Why Vivaldi’s Reader, and others too, sometimes don’t do what you expect
TL;DR Vivaldi Read Mode was was never meant for pages like Twitter, Youtube comments, or Facebook chats but for articles. As general rule of thumb you can assume that everything that has a continuous or adjacent text chunk of more than 300 characters counts […]
Followup on styling Vivaldi with CSS
Outdated. No longer needed! We have Themes now 🙂 Following up the post https://quhno.vivaldi.net/2015/07/02/some-quick-vivaldi-panels-css-hacks-for-better-readability-or-accessibility/ I’ve made some smallish changes that take care of some minor things I don’t like with the UI. They can be applied the same way as in the previous blog post. […]
Bookmarks suck – Extrensions are great – Extensions inhibit progress
Sounds provocative? Fine. It was planned to sound like that. While we all go conform that it is impossible to cover every need of a user with one software alone and that we therefore need a way to extend it, sometimes extensions can be […]
Broken CSS? Lint it!
While looking for something completely different I stumbled upon CSS LINT. Quote: Will hurt your feelings* (And help you code better) http://csslint.net/ Not the usual beautifier but does what it says: It tells you what you can and should improve in a similar rigorous way […]
Restoring the Old Opera 12 Space Bar Behavior in Vivaldi
In the good old days of “The Real Opera(TM)” there was one feature for lazy people like me that I heavily used: The Space Bar! I can hear you saying “The space bar is no feature, it is a key on the keyboard!” but […]
