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fasterthanlime 🪿

"Think about it -- for an HTML form input box, instead of using a crummy text widget, we could spawn an xterm the exact size of the text box, and use vim or any editor to fill out the form. It would be nice. It would be easy to maintain. Crashing the editor would leave the browser running."

Mhhhhh

web.archive.org/web/2001020207

web.archive.org[fmII] - Editorials - We are losing the browser war

@fasterthanlime waiting 23 minutes to fill this form because my emacs config has to download shit from melpa

@fasterthanlime I am so confused about the "crashing the editor" bit. I was a literal child in 2001, what were they *doing*?

@fasterthanlime never mind, I see we have a Type Of Guy here

If you can't be bothered with email, try the approach I use: I request links such as somecommercesite.com/using/javascript/has/just/lost/you/a/customer/ in the hope that somebody reads the error logs.