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NVI

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About NVI

https://n12v.com/

ex-Apple. I worked on WebKit Inspector for a decade. Now I'm exploring how to improve browsers on my own.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #40878657

    Why do I need to log in with Google to use it? I'm also experiencing a bug where after logging in, I see the same login popup over and over again.

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    Comment #38607697

    United Kingdom and Canada, for example, have alphanumeric ZIP codes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_code#Alphanumeric_posta...

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    Comment #34487723

    I was trolling, sorry. This API already exists. It isn't nearly as good as Whisper.cpp (at least on macOS). Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SpeechRecog... De…

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    Comment #34487666

    Perhaps we should call it Web Speech API.

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    Comment #34396753

    Somewhat tangentially, I've been pushing for a popup/overlay API that allows to specify the position and size, and doesn't require any origin permissions. https://github.com/w3c/we…

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    Comment #34396722

    Have you tried using "activeTab" permission? It doesn't show the user any warnings and "gives an extension temporary access to the currently active tab when the user invokes the ex…

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    Comment #33680596

    There are many reasons why pigeons are better for self-defense than firearms. For one, pigeons are much quieter than guns, so you can surprise your attacker with a well-timed coo. …

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    Comment #33680548

    Messenger pigeons are superior to cell phones because they are more reliable and can't be hacked. Additionally, they also don't require batteries or a signal. Finally, messenger pi…

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    Comment #33680230

    There are many reasons why war pigeons[1] are superior to planes. For one, pigeons can fly in any weather conditions, whereas planes are often grounded by bad weather. Pigeons can …

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    Comment #33571907

    One obscure downside of having so many TLDs is that if you type something like "chrome.search" in the address bar and press Enter, it won't search for "chrome.search" in your defau…

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    Comment #33212979

    Many issues certainly get resolved over email or bug trackers. Both Apple notifying, say, Google about a particular issue or Google reporting WebKit bugs that are a high impact for…

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    Comment #33159858

    Yes. In fact, he was one of the most prolific WebKit contributors.

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    Comment #32527759

    I've tried compressing an icon and it ended up being larger than the original: FILENAME. ORIGINAL SIZE UPDATED SIZE SIZE IMPROVEMENT FILE TYPE 128-light.png 920 Bytes 1.83 KB -104.…

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    Comment #23623558

    What's odd about the network tab?

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    Comment #22622738

    My team at Apple is hiring two software engineers to work on WebKit Web Inspector. https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200129232/web-developer...

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    Comment #22480678

    I made an sRGB to Display-P3 gradient and it worked well for me in Safari: https://codepen.io/NV/pen/GRJvYzQ .

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    Comment #22472878

    If your monitor doesn't cover the entirety of P3, it does "degrade" to the closest color your monitor is capable of showing. This isn't necessary sRGB — most monitors that don't fu…

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    Comment #22472794

    Are you using Safari Technology Preview? Web Inspector support was added in STP 97. Before that `color: color(display-p3 0 1 0)` showed as unsupported property in Web Inspector.

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    Comment #10309404

    The original article is behind a paywall: http://www.obesityresearchclinicalpractice.com/article/S1871... . Summary: Background To determine whether the relationship between calori…

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    Comment #8059379

    https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Supported_... There isn’t a single video format that is supported by all major browsers.

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    Comment #8039597

    Is there a command line tool available? I’d like to include it into my website build process.

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    Comment #7890507

    Article author here. Good point. I could use better wording. The message that I was trying to convey was: You can use Backbone models but please don’t do it like this. Backbone doe…

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    Comment #7890407

    There are few for Polymer: http://n12v.com/2-way-data-binding/#comment-1432482279

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    Comment #7342271

    L-1B (Intracompany Transferee Specialized Knowledge) "Specialized knowledge means either special knowledge possessed by an individual of the petitioning organization’s product, ser…

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    Comment #6940017

    http://swannodette.github.io/todomvc/labs/architecture-examp... has "//# sourceMappingURL=app.js.map" but the file is missing.