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nimbupani··on An open letter on feminism in tech
I worked for less than 5 months in a non-tech industry (and in a female-majority workplace) to form any opinion on that.
nimbupani··on An open letter on feminism in tech
I am one of the contributors to the parent article.

We mention a whole slew of 'what happens when you report harassment' incidents:

- http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/12/4693710/the-end-of-kindnes...

- http://archive.today/20130110113908/jolieodell.wordpress.com...

- http://blog.nerdchic.net/archives/705/

- https://medium.com/@geeekcore1/d96f431f4e8e

- http://borderhouseblog.com/?p=5698

- http://www.feministfrequency.com/2012/07/image-based-harassm...

- http://kateharding.net/2007/04/14/on-being-a-no-name-blogger...

- http://www.buzzfeed.com/rachelzarrell/blogger-writes-about-b...

- http://www.feministfrequency.com/2012/07/image-based-harassm...

- https://medium.com/@geeekcore1/d96f431f4e8e

- http://blog.nerdchic.net/archives/705/

- http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/12/4693710/the-end-of-kindnes...

I also want to mention that we were super scared of publishing our individual experiences for this exact fear and questioning of our lived experience.

nimbupani··on iOS 7 Safari & New Web Platform Features
A few of them work across many browsers actually. For example, if you enable the right tags you would get Regions in Chrome. Clip paths, canvas paths should work by default, while canvas blend modes should work on Canary and most of these should also work on WebKit Nightlies. Canvas Blend Modes should work in Firefox too.

I could have posted a screenshot but I thought it was nice to have people play with the demo within the browseer, probably will stick to screenshots next time.

nimbupani··on Balancing text for better readability
Bram Stein works for Adobe :) We did look into it but it was not fast enough for the needs of browsers.
nimbupani··on Balancing text for better readability
Thanks for the feedback. I just fixed it.
nimbupani··on HTML5 Boilerplate v4.0.0
Bootstrap is a very good friend of Boilerplate.
nimbupani··on Chrome limits off-store extension installs
This is very similar to issues in W3C specifications. I just think a bug tracker should be the primary reference material to track discussions around a specific bug. I wish there was a way to link to IRC channel discussion around this bug and otherwise if possible.

But nevertheless, I think it would be better if implementors summarize discussions outside of the bug tracker into the issue itself.

nimbupani··on Chrome limits off-store extension installs
What are some of these Facebook "like" selling sites that allow installing extensions?

(merely curious, and completely off-topic)

nimbupani··on Chrome limits off-store extension installs
I have no issues with the process, but only concerned with the way this change was made. The issue keeps referring to https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=55584 for "details", but there is nothing there except statements asserting how much of a "big problem" this is.

I think this is a bigger problem with large open source projects in general where implementors are oblivious to which functionalities developers cherish and value. Any change in such features would require a more thorough explanation.

nimbupani··on The Open Web Needs You Now
Firefox does not support Tiger and Win 2k, so where do these people go who use OSes 6 years old?
nimbupani··on Html5please
There is a link at the bottom for browser market share or learn more for most of these features.
nimbupani··on Html5please
This is definitely not suggested as a replacement. We link to caniuse.com for details. This is for suggestions on how to use a particular feature.
nimbupani··on Html5please
what search is not working? We are looking to add more features soon!
nimbupani··on Ask HN: Who is using Jekyll? (+feedback)
I use Octopress for my blog http://nimbupani.com which uses Jekyll with a bunch of useful plugins and rake files. My notes on porting from Drupal are here http://nimbupani.com/redesign-notes.html
nimbupani··on Move The Web Forward
It is actually a call to arms, to get web developers be actively involved in making the web better.
nimbupani··on Our Pointless Pursuit Of Semantic Value
That is exactly the redeeming value of the new semantic elements.
nimbupani··on Poll: Do you use Opera (the browser)?
It is most likely because Opera was almost the only lone browser that refused to have 'Mozilla' in its user agent string from the very beginning.

A lot of websites still use UA detection scripts from late 90s(!) which STILL do antiquated UA sniffing which means Opera does not get scripts, styles or markup because it does not seem to have the 'Mozilla' in its UA string leading to broken pages.

There is an easy fix if it is an irritant which is to select 'Edit Site Preferences > Network' from the context menu on a page.

Also, we would be much obliged if you could submit a bug report if you come across a site that does not render correctly in Opera: https://bugs.opera.com/wizard/

If you are a web developer, please do consider using feature-detection :)

nimbupani··on Mobile Boilerplate: a best practice baseline for your mobile Web app
Yeah, this was mostly Shi Chuan's effort, and he wrote a few blog posts along the way too http://www.blog.highub.com/mobile-2/the-complete-idiots-guid... and http://www.blog.highub.com/mobile-2/revisit-hardboiled-css3-...
nimbupani··on HTML5 Boilerplate - A rock-solid default template for HTML5
That is a goal yes, but these are the defaults that work for us, and we hope they work for everyone else (and we do look for suggestions to improve these), but if it does not work for you, we actively advocate choosing the defaults that do.

The reasons for each of the choices we made is all within the comments of the source file, so it is easier to choose what to keep and what to change.

nimbupani··on HTML5 Boilerplate - A rock-solid default template for HTML5
All of us involved in the project are pretty much "DIY" kind-of people :)

What we hope people do is to read through the source to see why we made the choices for defaults and pick and choose what they like and keep using them.

There are lots of defaults that were eye-opening to me that were suggested by the scores of contributors to the project.

nimbupani··on The real HTML5 boilerplate
Yes TextMate doesn't like it sadly :/
nimbupani··on The real HTML5 boilerplate
Yes it is being planned, here is our list for a RC release soon: https://github.com/paulirish/html5-boilerplate/issues/#issue...
nimbupani··on W3Fools Takes on W3Schools
You are welcome to submit a pull request with fixes Isofarro:

https://github.com/paulirish/w3fools

nimbupani··on Easy HTML5 Template
It seems odd that anyone is capable of using HTML5 Boilerplate "without learning". It is almost impossible to use something without knowing what it is useful for.
nimbupani··on Kindle: The Power Reading Device
I linked to http://kindleworld.blogspot.com/2010/10/global-kindle-3g-web... in the post which outlines exact support for 3G in EU. There are 61 countries where 3G is supported currently.
nimbupani··on Kindle: The Power Reading Device
I wrote the post and I did look into the Instapaper digest. The main drawback for me was it costs money to send it. It is not much now $0.15 cents per delivery but it might rise and if so, I won't remember to stop it!
nimbupani··on HTML5 Boilerplate v0.9.5 Released
I created the design, and it is a deliberate use of those tags to create graphical elements which you can see in the background. It should be diagonal in browsers that support CSS transforms, and vertical in browsers that dont.

http://html5doctor.com/i-b-em-strong-element/

nimbupani··on How Scribd's HTML document reader works (part 1)
Is font obfuscation why the text of http://www.scribd.com/documents/31051131/Scribd-HTML5-The-Fu... gibberish?
nimbupani··on HTML5 Readiness : A visualisation of HTML5/CSS3 browser support
The intention of this visualization was to show how much support exists for a particular HTML5/CSS3 feature among the 8 browsers, but not which specific browser supports which feature, which are already covered well here: http://whencaniuse.com
nimbupani··on Why Sass And Languages Like It Will Triumph
There is, it is called WidgEditor http://www.themaninblue.com/experiment/widgEditor/
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