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by chrismorgan 1149 days ago
You’re glossing over the problems.

Font rendering is wrong, even if you aren’t an extremist like me. Stuff is just never going to feel right.

Middle clicking is wrong, it didn’t open in a background tab like it should have, and this is indicative of the fundamental problem, and you couldn’t right click on the link to get the browser’s context menu, which is what you want >99.998% of the time. Browser’s context menu is also rather important in things like text boxes.

Most people won’t be significantly affected by these issues, probably won’t even notice them, or disregard it if they do briefly. But quite a few will loathe your app, because it badly messes up their way of working in ways that no site on the internet does.

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I honestly don't care what font a website uses, if it isn't fuzzy I won't notice it. I really dislike webapps that give me the browser context menu instead of their own custom one. I don't think I'd ever noticed middle click was a background tab, but I can see how that could annoy some people.
The text rendering is fuzzy.

I’m talking about right-clicking on a link, for things like Copy Link, or Open Link in New Private Window. Or in a text box for Cut/Copy/Paste/spell-checking.