> Am I missing something?

A joke? A fun tagline? A little zing for under the heading?

This is really cute!

I have a special spot in my heart for tools that do a good job of explaining themselves using their own outputs.

I wonder how hard it would be to add the cute old PowerPoint style transitions using CSS

You can wrap the navigation event in document.startViewTransition() and get something basic out of the box:

https://codepen.io/pauladamsmith/pen/VYeJMMb

Which transitions in Powerpoint are special?

I haven't seen better slide transitions than here https://impress.js.org/

I would use this

https://youtu.be/A1XRbPQE9-M?si=VWatyCxmR-ADZKWJ

Not too hard depending on the level of jankiness you're willing to endure.

Screen capture API > full screen canvas element > css animated clip mask and opacity

People did used to have decent expectations for Google back when they at least pretended to care about the "Do no evil" tagline

Indeed but it feels like a lifetime ago. I miss those days where I would look up to google and their products, as something new, cool and "not-evil".

Maybe. But if the founders were at all pre-gold-rush Internet people, sentiments like "don't be evil" seemed (in my impression at the time) more the genuine norm than the exception.

It's pretty clear they've been full evil for a while. It's documented at least back to 2011 but the rest of us didn't clue in for a while after.

"Don't be evil."

"Do no harm" is the doctor thing.

Google burned all that goodwill to fuel their growth. It worked great for them. But now they have none left.

I'm always surprised that stuff like the AI integration isn't done as a pre-installed extension.

If it's Mozilla signed then you could give it extra permissions so it still works the same, but then people who it offends can remove it.

Like how their tab containers system is a (not pre-installed) extension

ehh this reads a bit like the hn comments complaining about sites that don’t work with js disabled

like what percent of firefox users do you think actually care about this?

Given the abysmal market share of Firefox today I think a large percentage of the remaining users do actually care.

No one care about this story at large. It's a pretty bad argument to make among the population that does care. Every HN user can leave Firefox and it'd still be running.

Fortunately, history has shown you don't need a majority of users decrying something to get noticed.

enough to move to zen after 20+ years

I'm sure it's a very small amount, but as well as making me personally happy*, (I feel) it would play into their image as the good guy.

"Do you want the most minimal stripped down version of FireFox? Well you can have it!"

*and after all, isn't that what's really important /s

What's the saying?

> Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

At some point the rate of stupidity becomes suspicious again.

YouTube are already doing it! :(

Not very well, it's always too vague. Good opportunity to compete with a browser extension or service!

google'd [ai summary youtube transcript] and there's already at least 10

> $THING isn't just $THIS, it's also $THAT!

Is pure marketing speak, which is also what I find a lot of LLM generated text sounds like

Someone in a past thread here mentioned how they enjoyed the help of LLMs to generate all their PR marketing nonsense blurbs, because they looked just as good as the real thing. It might have been 2-3 years ago but I still joke about this with coworkers when the conversations shift to "AI".

The difference I think, is that the libraries are open source, and you don't have to pay Facebook yearly to use React.

Countries can and do ban closed source paid products when they don't trust the provider (e.g. Huawei)

When you buy hardware that goes rogue you're forced to throw it away and install something new, which costs money for hardware and labor.

When a GMO goes rogue you can just buy a different seed the next planting season, which you were going to do anyway.

The top of a lot of the ARIA docs pages say "No ARIA is better than bad ARIA"

I really like (not) when people read about accessibility and the first thing they decide to do is adding keydown handlers on all the buttons that have clicks handlers. Like, please, treat it like the rest of UX and design for it, instead of going with a checklist over all the places linter flagged.

I think its the difference between outcome-based and KPI-based management.

One is a lot easier and requires a lot less thought and general understanding of one's own business