[HN Gopher] Console for Mobile Browsers
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Console for Mobile Browsers
Author : rinmo
Score : 79 points
Date : 2020-04-24 14:08 UTC (8 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| pwdisswordfish2 wrote:
| Firebug has gone full circle.
| airstrike wrote:
| ngl that logo is unexpected (unnecessary?) to say the least...
| graphememes wrote:
| No fun not ever
| forkLding wrote:
| Its because the guys who made this are actually a visual novel
| engine development group
| kroltan wrote:
| Why? It's not offensive or NSFW.
| airstrike wrote:
| It's just silly, irrelevant, distracting and adolescent IMHO
| amelius wrote:
| What is happening here is that the girl is drawn in a
| confusing way: with childlike and also with adult traits.
| Also, the big eyes form a supernormal stimulus [1]. As such
| it is "hacking" into the brain of the viewer. Some people are
| more sensitive to this than others. In any case it distracts
| from the actual subject (the console software). As for work,
| I wouldn't consider it appropriate.
|
| [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_stimulus
| saagarjha wrote:
| > Also, the big eyes form a supernormal stimulus [1]. As
| such it is "hacking" into the brain of the viewer.
|
| Oh, come on, that's just the typical anime/manga style. You
| criticism applies equally to any software which has an
| attractive person as its icon as that would supernormally
| "hack" your brain as well. I see nothing about that drawing
| that is confusing.
| numlock86 wrote:
| > In any case it distracts from the actual subject
|
| Sounds like this fits with any kind of shape, color or
| combination of those (read as: logo) in any README.md that
| has one ... I wouldn't interpret too much into it.
| rmetzler wrote:
| The website is actually a really nice demo of what's possible
| with this. https://eruda.liriliri.io/
| micael_dias wrote:
| This is pretty neat but what's the use case? I'm struggling to
| see it
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| Edit: nevermind, I guess it's to make it easier to develop for
| mobile, no need to connect the phone using USB anymore
| CM30 wrote:
| Hey, this is pretty neat! Certainly seems like something that'll
| make it easier to test webpages on mobile or what not.
|
| However, the fact it's a script you have to install on the source
| page definitely limits its usefulness. Most of the time when I
| need a console for a mobile browser, it's to debug an error
| that's occuring on a client or customer's website. They're
| probably not going to be too thrilled with the prospect of
| another 100KB of code being downloaded by anyone viewing the
| site, even if it is behind a URL parameter or flag.
|
| The way that old mobile version of Firebug was available as a
| bookmarklet just made it significantly more practical to use
| here.
| nxrabl wrote:
| It's easy to miss in the readme, but there is a bookmarklet!
| I've just confirmed it works in Safari on iOS. You need to edit
| an existing bookmark with the javascript snippet rather than
| just pasting it into the address bar, but it does work.
| _fat_santa wrote:
| The alternative would be to something like a browser extension.
| I don't know if Safari on iOS supports extensions but I think
| Firefox does. Just create a wrapper extension that injects this
| code into the current page you are on.
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