Just tried to coach a friend on the use of some basic tasks in the Firefox Developer Tools.

[marco@caneandable.social]

Just tried to coach a friend on the use of some basic tasks in the Firefox Developer Tools. And found that many of the things we worked for back in the day, are now broken. For example jumping from an accessible node back to its HTML counterpart no longer works, and if you edit HTML, there is no obvious way to save your edits. And other focus jumpiness that unfortunately makes the experience far less pleasant than I remember it being. Awww well, it is no longer my problem, it's just sad to see.

[kaveinthran@mastodon.stickbear.me]

@marco Definitely sad, have you tried looking at chrome?

[marco@caneandable.social]

@kaveinthran Nope, not in a few years, and I personally no longer need to. But I recommended to the friend that they look at both Edge and Chrome developer tools and see if they can get the same tasks done there without as much hassle.

[yatil@yatil.social]

@marco I have this feeling of past work degradation when I look at W3C/WAI stuff I helped with. It’s really sad.

[kc@chaos.social]

@yatil @marco Hello, I‘m your friendly AI language model, and I was trained on your outstanding work, and I‘m now doing the same but 10x worse. I apologize for any trouble I have caused. /j

[yatil@yatil.social]

@kc @marco Oh, it’s all human caused degradation, so… even worse, I guess?

[marco@caneandable.social]

@yatil @kc Same in "my“ case, I think. Although I actually don't know what policy Mozilla has regarding AI generated code for contributions.