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On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 4:28 AM, Kent Fredric <kentfredric@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 3 September 2015 at 07:17, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. <phajdan.jr@g.o> |
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> > Do you have specific examples? |
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> None that I can currently recall, I've just long resigned myself from |
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> trying to care with Google products. The instances I can recall were |
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> more defects in their web services, some where there was literally no |
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> place to go, and I just kept getting the feeling nobody cared. |
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Often that can be the case. On the team I am on, we care but we have about |
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a billion other things to do than fix low priority bugs or implement |
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one-off customer features in our clients or APIs. Often I recommend (as |
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Pawel did later in the thread) writing and using extensions to add these |
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features. Obviously in the ads one, its not really possible to fix for |
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everyone (here install this third party extension!) but for gmail it seems |
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feasible to write a browser extension to highlight the text for you. |
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> eg: I found a coding defect in the Google Ads code that injected the |
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> version string from whatever flash implementation you were using |
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> verbatim inside an HTML Tags attributes without caring to escape it, |
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> which meant if you had a competing implementation(eg: Gnash ) that |
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> used a double-quote mark in its version string, Ad injection could |
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> cause entire page layout to be broken. |
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> Or for instance, when GMail overhauled their email service, despite |
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> the pleas of developers to have a "Don't top-post by default" toggle |
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> in the settings, the whole developer community was deemed unimportant |
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> and that such a feature could never happen. |
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So write an extension that doesn't do it? |
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> So now every time I reply to something, I have to fight with GMail to |
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> make sure I highlight the whole message manually first, making sure |
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> not to have my selector accidentally slip outside the email text, and |
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> *then* hit reply, which makes it quote it instead. |
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I'm unsure if extensions work on mobile though :( |
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> The latter choice has been the one that stuck with me the most, |
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> because I'm constantly feeling like I'm being slapped in the face by |
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> it. |
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> Granted these instances are not instances of "Software I run on my |
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> machine", but they are still software to me. |
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> </tirade> |
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> -- |
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> Kent |
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> KENTNL - https://metacpan.org/author/KENTNL |
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