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    Replied To a Post in Any jQuery 4 users?

    I'm still using jQuery, a very slim build. Our JS library/framework handles all the heavy lifting, including AJAX, WebSockets, logical events, data manipulation, and architectural events. Replacing jQuery would be …
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    Gave Reputation to Dani in Are we being played by AI? Let's Discuss!

    Today is day one trillion of this still unrelenting headache. FINALLY, a diagnosis! I have shingles. Feeling hopeful to begin treatment and start feeling better.
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    Gave Reputation to Reverend Jim in Is linux your daily driver?

    When I ran into problems with linux I found the online help was less than helpful. The help, when offered, consisted of experts explaining things to other experts, even though …
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    Replied To a Post in Is linux your daily driver?

    I exclusively use Linux on my personal PCs, currently the Ubuntu distribution. I switched from Windows between 2010 and 2012. Before that, I used Linux on a different PC for …
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    Replied To a Post in Hi everyone, I'm denmark-123

    we all love Danmark , but why have your nick on it ?
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    Replied To a Post in How to Implement Lazy Loading for Faster Web Portals

    > It was a typo I noticed immediately, but I couldn't edit the comment (which could be a useful feature). > You should be able to click the little edit …
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    Gave Reputation to Dani in How to Implement Lazy Loading for Faster Web Portals

    > It was a typo I noticed immediately, but I couldn't edit the comment (which could be a useful feature). You should be able to click the little edit button …
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    Replied To a Post in How to Implement Lazy Loading for Faster Web Portals

    Just a correction to my last comment: 'I love being part of the DaniWeb experience,' not Daniwev. It was a typo I noticed immediately, but I couldn't edit the comment …
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    Gave Reputation to Dani in How to Implement Lazy Loading for Faster Web Portals

    > Of course, Lighthouse audit results are influenced by factors like your location, connection, and other variables. That's why I disagreed with you that a Lighthouse audit is always representative …
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    Replied To a Post in How to Implement Lazy Loading for Faster Web Portals

    I also don't believe that Lighthouse audit results are an effective representation of CWV , but I believe that are an efficient way that we have to understand what affects …
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    Replied To a Post in How to Implement Lazy Loading for Faster Web Portals

    Dani, first of all, thank you for sharing the numbers. Yes, if LCP for mobile devices has improved from 3 seconds to 2.1 seconds (with SXG being the only difference), …
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    Replied To a Post in How to Implement Lazy Loading for Faster Web Portals

    Hello Dani, I decided last week not to respond to your last post, but, let's be honest, I can't keep myself from responding. Your example could be valid if you …
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    Replied To a Post in How to Implement Lazy Loading for Faster Web Portals

    Dani, I completely agree (of course) that Lighthouse, as a tool, doesn’t directly impact SEO rankings. However, Core Web Vitals , which Lighthouse helps measure , do influence Google’s ranking …
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    Replied To a Post in How to Implement Lazy Loading for Faster Web Portals

    As I wrote in a previous post, I believe that the way loading="lazy" is being implemented in browsers makes it almost unusable. Chromium-based browsers have a really high distance from …
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    Replied To a Post in How to Implement Lazy Loading for Faster Web Portals

    Dani as you wrote "Speed index" is supposed to be about the visible part of a web page - ATF. But because in Lighthouse I kept getting that loading="lazy" method …
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    Replied To a Post in How to Implement Lazy Loading for Faster Web Portals

    Yes I couldn't get the CLS impact either. I understand the "speed index" SEO impact of using loading="lazy" (that in my mind make it not usable) vs using IntersectionObserver but …
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    Replied To a Post in How to Implement Lazy Loading for Faster Web Portals

    > However, what is the harm in adding loading="lazy" to an existing web app? 96% of users will experience a performance improvement. The other 4% of users will have no …
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    Created Selling the house that I grew up

    I have a detached house in the overpopulated city where I live. I also own a small detached house near the beach, which I want to sell so I can …
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    Replied To a Post in How to Implement Lazy Loading for Faster Web Portals

    In reality, the usage of IE is lower than 0.4%. In some categories of web apps, it's around 0.1%, while in others, it's about 0.2%. That is why we decided …
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    Replied To a Post in How to Implement Lazy Loading for Faster Web Portals

    Dani, in my small software company (we are only five people), we have a rule for the web: support it until the problem affects less than 1 in 200 users, …
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    Replied To a Post in How to Implement Lazy Loading for Faster Web Portals

    The loading="lazy" HTML attribute-value pair was introduced in 2019–2020, so I would guess it will be safe to use after 2030–2035, except if you don't care about internet visitors and …
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    Gave Reputation to Dani in Is there a grand attack to make DaniWeb posts garbage ?

    > I am really happy that you are fine. I haven’t seen any posts from you over the last few days (before yesterday), and I was a bit worried. I …
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    Replied To a Post in Is there a grand attack to make DaniWeb posts garbage ?

    Dani, I am really happy that you are fine. I haven’t seen any posts from you over the last few days (before yesterday), and I was a bit worried. I …
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    Created Why DaniWeb doesn't have an account to BlueSky ?

    I know that BlueSky is a new toy , that we don't know how much will last in its current state. But my question is beyond BlueSky , it is …
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    Replied To a Post in Best Android phone for starting to test a Java app?

    It doesn't really play great role in what physical Android device you check your app because you have already checked it in several virtual devices in Android Studio / Tools …
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    Replied To a Post in php if else not working with main root / only working for index.php

    Hello ianhaneybs, It is time to start a bit of debugging , you need to inspect what the variable $currentpage really holds. e.g. 1 <?php $currentpage = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; var_dump($currentpage); exit; …
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    Edited Is there a grand attack to make DaniWeb posts garbage ?

    "Is DaniWeb under a grand attack or just suffering from many small cuts with no purpose?" I’ve written about this before. Many AI-driven accounts here post once, share a brief …
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    Created Is there a grand attack to make DaniWeb posts garbage ?

    "Is DaniWeb under a grand attack or just suffering from many small cuts with no purpose?" I’ve written about this before. Many AI-driven accounts here post once, share a brief …
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    Replied To a Post in Hi everyone, I'm IntelliVinj

    A "Passionate Programmer" considering no code or low code options too. **That is gold**. Before A.I. get us nonsense programmers will
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    Replied To a Post in webp browser support is far less than popular statistics suggest

    > Pack the application and dependencies into some container. I am using docker, use kubernetes if you hate docker. gediminas.bukauskas.7 I don't understand what this has to do with serving …
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    Replied To a Post in webp browser support is far less than popular statistics suggest

    Hello, I created three additional tests to check if the browser truly supports the WebP image format. One test used the Google code we discussed earlier, another tried to load …
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    Replied To a Post in webp browser support is far less than popular statistics suggest

    Hello rproffitt , you made an interesting point. Although those clients report **both** server side and client side that don't support webp image format , there is a chance that …
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    Replied To a Post in webp browser support is far less than popular statistics suggest

    Hello rproffitt, > Read https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/faq and it seems a stretch that 7 to 15% of visitors to a web page don't support this. I know that Google keep saying that …
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    Created webp browser support is far less than popular statistics suggest

    Recently I started to rewrite the core of a web app in Java (not including the Admin part). I have discussed ideas with colleagues and friends and one thing that …
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    Replied To a Post in Hi everyone, I'm nexacare

    welcome nexacare
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    Replied To a Post in Creating a Pixel Desktop App with ChatGPT in Just 20 Minutes

    I understand that a chatbot is more friendly to use than Google, but the same functionality is in 1000 places in Python code on Internet. It would be easier to …
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    Replied To a Post in Python - MySQL - Too many connections?

    Its hard in a Python script to "create too many connections" to a DB. You don't have many concurrent clients , you don't have web requests , is this a …
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    Gave Reputation to Reverend Jim in Time for some humour before Jan 20

    An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first orders a beer, the second orders half a beer, the third orders a quarter of a beer and so …
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    Replied To a Post in How to Successfully Use ChatGPT for SEO

    > I am of the opinion that meta tags are next to useless for SEO nowadays. Dani I have the same opinion ... almost. We use this three meta tags …
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    Replied To a Post in How to Successfully Use ChatGPT for SEO

    I have seen hundreds of eShops (with many admins in each) on my company's platform , fail to set proper meta tags in the CMS and never bother to do …
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    Replied To a Post in ChatGPT is Now Smarter Than 90% of the Population

    When I took my first IQ test as a teenager, and I didn’t know anything about the assumptions you should make for those questions, I had a strong reaction: "This …
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    Replied To a Post in Do I need to be very good to make money as a Web Developer?

    Many can write code , even an LLM can , but to understand the needs of each project , choose the right architecture and built an app to meet all …
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    Replied To a Post in Do web developer really need a web application firewall?

    My company also has its own "firewall middle tier" call it WAF if you like. We build it many years ago when cloudflare wasn't an option , and it still …
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    Replied To a Post in ChatGPT is Now Smarter Than 90% of the Population

    I really can't understand the claim that it "smarter than 90% of population". I don't have access to o1 but from what I have seen sometimes it counts correctly the …
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    Replied To a Post in Future of Web Development: Trends and Tools

    This is a really broad topic. Although PWA doesn't seem to catch up , I write client side web apps more than 14 years now because it doesn't make any …
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    Gave Reputation to Dani in Thinking to write a simple "AI app" tutorial , should I do it ?

    I would absolutely love, of course, if you could write a tutorial, or series of tutorials, on how to use LLM without a ChatGPT API. I did not even realize …
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    Replied To a Post in Thinking to write a simple "AI app" tutorial , should I do it ?

    Hello , I have started writing it ( in my free time ) but it is a little difficult because I want it to be safe but also for someone …
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    Replied To a Post in The powerful of ChatGPT

    Probably in near future you could through a standalone code file to an LLM and correct the errors for you , or even perform optimizations, already some LLMs are pretty …
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    Edited Thinking to write a simple "AI app" tutorial , should I do it ?

    LMs are great , but if you don't know how to ask the right questions , break your thoughts in manageable pieces they can't do it for you. Even when …
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    Edited Thinking to write a simple "AI app" tutorial , should I do it ?

    LMs are great , but if you don't know how to ask the right questions , break your thoughts in manageable pieces they can't do it for you. Even when …

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