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0 pointsamadeus27d ago0 comments

Would love to see a website that makes everything DiffsHub does without making any of the work necessary. Making it all obsolete would be a huge step forward for the web. We support diffs that exceed 36 million lines, with syntax highlighting, comments, bundled into a reusable library for anyone to use.

Also this works in all browsers, fixing blink doesn’t help move the web forward.

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charcircuit27d ago· 2 in thread

I agree. I'm tired of these sites with glitchy scrolling and broken search due to trying to reimplement the browser in javascript.

>fixing blink doesn’t help move the web forward.

Historically making one browser engine faster encourages other engines to also be made faster. And realistically Blink has the majority of the browser market share, so it is the most important one to optimize for. Trying to move the web forward shouldn't be the primary goal. The primary goal should be making a good experience for the user. Niche engines like Firefox's just aren't worth caring about due to its low market share.

amadeusOP27d ago

Glad we solved glitchy scrolling for now (the title of this blog post was “on rendering diffs”, not “searching diffs”). Browser search on a 36 million line diff would not by great, but it’s something we hope to have a solution for. One step at a time.

charcircuit27d ago

If the solution for searching big pages was built into the browser then it would be fixed for every site instead of requiring each site to use a library or fix it themselves.

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