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Ah, well that may have well been a recent update. I'll have to try it again under chrome.* It didn't used to work at all unless I replaced chrome.* with browser.

carl8
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I'm going through converting a Chrome extension to Safari 14, and the process isn't nearly as seamless as shown, although it's nice to have the converter tool.

Chrome extensions only support the 'chrome' namespace, while Firefox supports 'chrome' and 'browser', but Safari 14 only supports 'browser'. So our extension had been using the 'chrome' namespace which worked under Firefox, but now needed to be converted. 'chrome' uses callback functions, while 'browser' uses Promises. So you have to port your Chrome extension to use 'browser' and use the following polyfill: https://github.com/mozilla/webextension-polyfill

Here's some incompatibilities between Chrome and Firefox to consider: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...

Also had some html/css glitches to fix in Safari. Some other issues others have mentioned such as notifications and webRequest APIs.

carl8
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I made something similar, called PlasmaJS which you can view here: http://plasmajs.com

carl8
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Back in 1995 I wrote a library for creating BBS Door games using RIP graphics, in QuickBasic 4.5. Also created a RIP Door Game of the classic Battleship game. It never went anywhere as most of my local BBSs started shutting down the following year.

I wrote some JavaScript that draws RIP files into a web canvas, and an experimental RIP to SVG converter. It's still incomplete. Here's the source: https://github.com/cgorringe/RIPtermJS

Here's a Demo page where you can see some RIP files rendered in a canvas and as SVG: https://carl.gorringe.org/pub/code/javascript/RIPtermJS/

Specs for v1.54, v2, and v3 can be downloaded here: https://carl.gorringe.org/pub/code/javascript/RIPtermJS/docs...

Some issues with the RIP format:

1. RIPscrip v1.54, the most popular version, was targeted towards 640x350 px EGA graphics, which is an odd resolution with non-square pixels. They tried fixing this in later versions, but they weren't as popular.

2. Non-standard bezier curves and the flood fill algorithm caused issues with rendering. I've had a lot of issues trying to get it working right as the flood fill would leak through holes in lines which aren't rendered exactly like RIPterm did. And the specs don't give details on how they did it.

carl8
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I wonder how this would compare to Judy arrays. Would anyone like to benchmark this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_array http://judy.sourceforge.net

To install the Judy C lib:

brew install judy apt-get install libjudy-dev
Then compile with -lJudy and #include <Judy.h>

Example: http://judy.sourceforge.net/doc/JudyL_3x.htm

carl8
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Back in the late '90's there was the All BASIC Code (ABC) repository, which was a large collection of the best Basic code at the time. Some of my code made it there. Found this copy here: https://github.com/qb40/abcarchive

I used to be active on the QB FIDOnet forums in the mid-90's until many of the BBSs shut down. It was my favorite language during my teen years!

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