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If some bigwig has marked an API “depreciated”, but hasn’t provided a viable alternative and the user experience suffers when user agents stop allowing their users to invoke the helpful functionality, the agents who do let their users do what they want are not the issue.


Nitpick:

Depreciated means gone down in value.

Deprecated means made obsolete.

I hear this all the time at work. Drives me nuts.


Join me, and we can form an army. We need to solve this, and "learnings". I think it's possible this becomes the Butlerian Jihad but without spice.


You want spice?

Irregardless, I could care less.


As long as you have the codes!


That's literally bonkers


Literally, Figuratively, Virtually and Actually. Great words, frequently misused.

I also adore "very unique"


"Literally" has been abused so much that they have officially made an informal definition of it to mean "figuratively."

Which means "literally" is now its own antonym. Pretty wild


> We need to solve this, and "learnings".

What is "learnings"?


A pluralization once popular in 14th Century Middle English that died out until ressurected in central north American business English.

In 2016 Grammarist was to the point.

    "Learnings is a pluralization of an erroneous form of learning as a singular noun. Said singular noun (e.g., a learning) does not exist, at least according to most dictionaries. Colloquially, especially in the medical field, learnings means specific items that were newly discovered or learned."
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-plural-form-of-learning-Is...

they're since softened that stance and now discuss how it is poorly used.

https://grammarist.com/usage/learnings/


The word invented/resurrected, for some reason, to replace the word "lessons".


Exactly.


Add “asks” to that. And “compliment” vs. “complement”, “affect” vs. “effect”, and so on.


I miss the flash player and unity player plugins too. Remember how powerful activex was?


The main issue with powerful tools is that they get used against you by threat actors.

Our society sets limits based on the most selfish. Our computers get limitations based on the most effective threat.


The only “problem” with the clipboard API is shitty applications blindly trusting client data.


Perl did something right with its taint mode: https://perldoc.perl.org/perlsec#Taint-mode


The only thing wrong with all three things you mentioned is that they're proprietary. Google is not holding the web hostage with W3C standards.




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