lachlanhunt

Why have you been miscompiling JavaScript since February 2010? (CORE-30333, DSK-285105). It doesn't matter that it's fastest if it's broken.

We took a huge risk by redeveloping our JavaScript engine from scratch, replacing Futhark with Carakan. Unfortunately, we're not perfect, and we knew Carakan wasn't perfect when we launched. But we are doing our best to resolve those issues (at least, the CORE bug you mentioned looks to be fixed internally).

Most of us use Opera, though we're allowed to use other browsers. I have all 5 major browsers, plus recent nightly (or public beta) releases of each installed, and use whichever is most convenient at the time.

That's a very broad, open ended question, but I'll do my best to answer it. HTML5 is very important to us for many reasons.

From an interoperability perspective, the fact that HTML5 defines the technical aspects of the features so well, it makes it easier for us and the other browser vendors to implement, and to hopefully implement them in the same way. For many features, such as the parsing algorithm, this means we no longer have to reverse engineer other browsers and copy each other as much as we used to

From a web development perspective, HTML5, CSS3 and the related specifications that make up the open web stack are providing a lot more flexibility in terms of what is now possible to do without plugins, and without having to rely on previously proprietary markup and APIs. So we're really working hard to focus on implementing the features that web developers really want.

Oh, and about the Hot Dogs, that really depends who you ask. Some of my Norwegian colleagues swear that the pølse (The norwegian word for hot dog) are amazing, and, that the pølse stand just a short walk from our office do indeed make the best. But for myself, as a Australian living in Oslo, I still prefer the hot dogs I grew up with.

Don't underestimate the stupidity of large groups of people. The last poll I saw still showed 53/47 ALP/LNP 2PP, and you can expect those numbers to close as the election campaign ramps up.

The impossibility of implementing support for PGP encryption in webmail services, without sacrificing the end-to-end encryption likely played a big part it in never taking off.

FastMail have covered this topic previously.

https://fastmail.blog/advanced/why-we-dont-offer-pgp/