Karl Dubost: [worklog] Edition 031. Heat wave and cicadas falling

Понедельник, 15 Августа 2016 г. 02:59 + в цитатник

Cicadas are an interesting insect. They live most of their time as a nymph under the ground in between 2 and 5 years, but some species live until 17 years before coming out and die six weeks after. What does it tell us about all the hidden work we put during our lifetime and blooms and shines for only a couple of hours.

Tune of the week: Ella Fitzgerald - Summertime (1968)

Webcompat Life

Progress this week:

Today: 2016-08-15T08:58:55.633182
298 open issues
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needsinfo       4
needsdiagnosis  80
needscontact    17
contactready    29
sitewait        158
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Webcompat issues

(a selection of some of the bugs worked on this week).

Gecko and Blink/WebKit have different default CSS border-width values for the input element. It breaks a site. If we decide to fix it in Gecko, do we break other sites relying on this default value?
Performance issues on a heavy map Web site, though I'm not sure it is really a Web compatibility issue. It looks like more of something related to Gecko.
Another issue related to layout with a content inside a form. I need to dig a bit more.
no tap on priceline
Use chrome only for transcribeme
When using element.removeEventListener('event', callback) never forgets the second argument because it fails in Firefox, though that seems to be working in Chrome.
mask, background and mask-image difference creates immaterial design. The most important now being to really find what is the source of the issue.

WebCompat.com dev

Is invalid always the right keyword for closing an issue? From our side (project owner) it is invalid because it is not in the scope of the project, or there isn't enough details to reproduce. But from the user's perspective who had genuinely an issue (whatever the issue is), it can be felt as a strong rejection along the lines of "We don't care about you". Maybe we should find a better way of closing issues when they are out of scope.

Reading List

More a quote of the day, but spot on: > Wondering how long it will take for publishers to realize it’s Medium that desperately needs them and not the other way around.
And another one from Adam. And I really wish we could do that in a cool way! > Almost at our 3000th bug on webcompat.com. The lucky reporter who hits 3000 wins a broken light bulb