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Why browsers are bloated

Name: Anonymous 2014-07-27 0:20

https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/blob/master/Source/WebCore/platform/Scrollbar.cpp
https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/blob/master/Source/WebCore/platform/win/ScrollbarThemeWin.cpp
Let's reinvent the fucking scrollbar, which every goddamn platform with a UI already has, and make it behave subtly different from the native one!

Right-click a native scrollbar in some other app:
- Scroll Here
- Top
- Bottom
- Page Up
- Page Down
- Scroll Up
- Scroll Down

Right-click a scrollbar in Chrome:
- Back
- Forward
- Reload
- Save As...
...

Right-click a scrollbar in Firefox and Opera:
Absolutely fucking nothing happens!

What the fuck!? How did these terminally retarded idiots get involved in creating one of the most important pieces of software to the average user?

Name: Anonymous 2014-12-13 9:34

>>453
How is it not anaphoric? Please see Wikipedia which you so cherish:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaphora_%28linguistics%29

In linguistics, anaphora /əˈnæfərə/ is the use of an expression the interpretation of which depends upon another expression in context (its antecedent or postcedent). In the sentence Sally arrived, but nobody saw her, the pronoun her is anaphoric, referring back to Sally.

When you say "my house burned down", the house that "my" refers to is determined entirely by the context, i.e. by the person speaking, i.e. by you. Is someone else said "my house burned down", then it would be a different house (unless he used to share a house with you).

On the contrary, if you said "a green house burned down", then the meaning would be independent of context: the house would be just as green if someone else said the same thing (barring the rare possibility of color perception diseases).

Thus, the word "my" is anaphoric, and not an adjective any more than "I" is a noun. If pronouns are words that anaphorically stand for nouns, then the words that do the same for adjectives are simplest called proadjectives. No need to invent superfluous entities like "determiners" or inconsistent rules like "I is not a proper noun but its inflections are proper adjectives".

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