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How does your blocker know which URLs you are visiting are "web apps" and which are "web sites"?

I don't know which this is (or where the line is), but here's my latest project at my day job, where we used `position: sticky` for a sort of control bar, that I think worked out fairly well. (There are still some UI issues, but I think fewer than most of our peers trying to implement similar functionality).

https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/4j03d097t

Switch to "transcript" tag, scroll around, click on timecodes to listen to that part of recording, etc.




It's a bookmarklet, which means it only runs when you ask it to, so I don't think it really needs to know the difference between a web app and a web site?


Ah, sure, that makes sense.

(But can someone give me the personal satisfaction of agreeing the project I just finished made a legit and cool use of position sticky, haha).


Good job! Keep building things.


There's a limited number of web apps that I use. That changes rarely and they can be whitelisted. E.g. I can assign some privileges to Google Docs or something like that, but it's perfectly reasonable to treat all random web links to new sites as "not-a-web-app".




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