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Seen it coming (lemmy.world)
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[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

That kid wrote the CSS book.

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

WKUK really does look bad out of context. Or in context. Or whatever, I love that show:

[-] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

You left your SI in the link

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

whoops, thanks -- fixed

[-] perishthethought@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

Wkuk, always knew when to stop before they crossed that line. 👍

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I don't think they did always (e.g. they dunked on women a lot), but I think their intent was to be more of an absurdist comedy using some known tropes to bond their audience (e.g. in 2000s, where women were dunked on a lot in popular media or portrayed in anti-progressive ways) rather than to propagate the trope itself.

WKUK were very anti-authoritarian, so I give them slack if they messed up along the way and punched down from time to time.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

C++ for kids - fine
Javascript for babies - call CPS!

spoilerLISP for toddlers - parent of the year award

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Why are you giving out parent of the year awards for crimes against humanity?

[-] perishthethought@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

When is Lemmy going to fix spoiler tags?

Sheesh!

[-] maccentric@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

Works for me on Voyager, what app are you using?

[-] perishthethought@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago
[-] maccentric@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

I don’t have Sync but I fired up Mlem and Avelon and they both also botched the spoiler tag. It doesn’t appear like it should be too hard to implement, wonder what’s going on?

[-] sjmarf@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Mlem dev here! Lemmy has a custom "flavor" of Markdown that is distinct from other social media platforms. Open-source markdown parsers and renderers exist for popular flavors of Markdown (e.g GitHub-flavor), but not for Lemmy-flavor. Most Lemmy clients choose to use an existing GitHub-flavor parser that is close enough to Lemmy's to be indistinguishable in most cases. Mlem uses swift-markdown-ui to render markdown, which uses cmark-gfm as its parser.

Lemmy's spoiler format is unique to Lemmy-flavor markdown, so that's one of the places where use of a third-party markdown parser is noticed by users. Other common parsing errors are ~subscript~ and footnotes.

Adding spoiler support is not particularly easy, unfortunately. You can't really apply spoiler-parsing logic on-top of another markdown parser - it has to be integrated into the parser itself. This is because the app needs to ignore spoiler markdown in certain situations, such as inside of a code block. The only good option is to write a custom markdown parser from scratch, or modify an existing markdown parser to support Lemmy's markdown dialect. Both options can be difficult for developers for several reasons:

  • cmark-gfm is written in C, which the developer of the Lemmy client may not be familiar with.
  • If the app is using a third-party renderer, and not just a parser, that renderer also needs to be rewritten to support the new parsing logic.

This takes a significant amount of time for comparatively little value for users, so most client developers didn't prioritise it.

In an upcoming Mlem version, we're replacing our markdown parser renderer with a custom one that can render spoilers and subscripts, but we've got a way to go before we achieve full parity with Lemmy. If any developers of other apps are using cmark-gfm, you're welcome to use our code from that repo under the terms of the licence.

Sorry this is kinda long, I hope this answers your question

[-] maccentric@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Great info, thanks!

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

This right here is why I love you guys. Someone posted a bug, and we already have two people testing said bug, and giving reports within 30 minutes of the bug report.

Never change Lemmy :)

[-] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Boost also has yet to implement spoiler tags.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I just checked it on Sync for Lemmy, and it showed as a blue block till I clicked it. I'm using a Galaxy S10e. It does show two instances of the word "spoiler" at the beginning of the text, but that's just something Sync does. Works fine elsewhere.

[-] Bach37strad@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'll hold out for: machine code for babies

[-] DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Thank you for the spoiler tag, that was pretty NSFL

[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago

Honestly, software development can be so demoralizing at times.

[-] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 10 points 1 month ago

Should have started with C

[-] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Balmer Peak for kids...

[-] Zannsolo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

That's a book for PHP devs

[-] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Is this part of the furry agenda?

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