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I've been using this for personal use for around 2 years and I figured it was time to share it with the world. Criticism, issues and PRs are welcome. Thanks!
> This PWA will also never work on Firefox.
True. But as much as I like Firefox, that doesn't seem to me to be NotepadJs's doing.
If you include the OS, the hardware BIOS, the switch gear at the ISP, the internet backbone, DNS, BIND, etc, etc it's probably into the billions.
And that's entirely firefox's doing.
That's fair. I am just upset with a general shift away from simple, accessible cross-platform GUI libraries to complicated web apps.
Literally any GUI toolkit has a textbox widget. You could make a cross-platform qt text editor in 100~ lines of Python.
> as much as I like Firefox, that doesn't seem to me to be NotepadJs's doing.
Well NotepadJS chose to create a PWA that can only be used in Chrome and Opera. Though like you said, it's just a pet project.
Please don't dismiss other people's work like this. It poisons community and disincentivizes people from sharing in the future, making HN worse for all of us.
All: if your comment begins with a snarky "Great, another", you should probably rethink whether the entire post is suitable for this site.
p.s. I don't mean to pile on what dspillett already said and am sorry if it felt that way. I just need to say something because it's so important to the future of the community here. Especially when someone is personally sharing their own work.
This is a primarily tech oriented website. When someone posts a 2 years old cross-platform project that's arguably suboptimal from many technical perspectives, and the submitter explicitly asks for feedback and criticism, I think it is fair game to actually give feedback instead of hugboxing.
When something isn't good, you needn't pretend that it is, but don't be gratuitously negative.
Also, "we have had better for decades" is arguably a shallow dismissal of someone's work, which https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html asks commenters to avoid:
Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
Better might be to inquire: what is it about the toasters that have existed for decades that wasn't satisfying you? And then I might say "well, I wanted it to have a progress bar". And you might say "Mousetoaster was released 18 years ago and more or less already had that," and then we could have an interesting conversation about it.
That's the sort of interaction we want. It still offers lots of ways to talk about what's missing from a project, or the fact that it won't work on Firefox.
Is there another way that I'm unaware of to conveniently edit arbitrary local files in a browser that has wider support (or anything upcoming that doesn't have much support yet)?
This whole thing is a learning process for all of us, and me most of all.
p.s. I appreciate your reply. It's not easy to be so open and most people can't or won't do it.