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Peter Beverloo
Personal blog · peter.shwebprogramming
Peter Beverloo is a personal blog at peter.sh about web and programming. Since 2010, 46 different Hacker News readers have linked it 47 times, most often “List of Chromium Command Line Switches”. The last post was in 2013, but the archive is still widely read.
Most-linked posts?
- List of Chromium Command Line Switches11 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2011-02-09
- Chromium has over 1600 command-line switches8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2019-11-03
- CSS Selector Profiler, Source Mapping and Software Rendering4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2012-01-04
- Peter Beverloo on Chromium development3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-12-21
- Vendor-prefixed CSS Property Overview 2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-10-07
What Hacker News says?
It's apparently a feature: "An issue that often pops up for mobile browsers is that text on the website may be too small to read properly. Where the Android Browser employs a text reflow algorithm to clarify the situation, Chrome for Android features a technique which we’ve called Font Boosting. It uses an algorithm to increase font sizes when necessary, aiming to make the text readable regardless of the zoom level.…
Comment linking /2012/02/bringing-google-chrome-to-android
on “Introducing Chrome for Android”Submitted Chromium has over 1600 command-line switches as a story · 57 points
HN discussionJust a note chrome://flags/ only has some of the flags, many must be passed manually. https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/ Still can't find this option as a flag though, must be compile time only.
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on “Shared Cache Is Going Away”Submitted All 1,400 Google Chrome CLI flags as a story · 46 points
HN discussionEven ignoring the google.com thing, estimates are they're spending at least $500 million a year on Chrome marketing for ads on other sites, various bundling deals (including pre-installs on new PCs and auto-installs with other software), etc. As far as people on Chrome go, you're right that back in 2008 they likely did not have 1000+ people on it. The best data I can find for mid-2008 on the Internet says about 50 i…
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on “Do you really want to be making this much money when you're 50?”Submitted Firebug-like CSS editing (for Chrome) as a story · 32 points
HN discussionhttp://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/#...
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on “SPDY Review by Opera Software”Submitted JavaScript Full Screen API, Navigation Timing and repeating CSS Gradients as a story · 24 points
HN discussionThis is the only place I've found them parsed and documented: http://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/
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on “Show HN: Pocket Stream Archive – A personal Way-Back Machine”Submitted VP9 and Opus, Background Position Offset and Ruby Positioning as a story · 6 points
HN discussionYou can also start Chrome with command line options[1], like "--bswi", which is the clean slate. [1]: http://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/#...
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on “Writing Extensions for Firefox Is Barely Worth the Trouble”Submitted List of Chromium Command Line Switches as a story · 6 points
HN discussionChromium Command Line Switches? http://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/
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on “How to stop Firefox from making automatic connections”Submitted Peter Beverloo on Chromium development as a story · 5 points
HN discussionTLS everywhere isn’t a sane default designed to coddle power users and security pros, but to protect your everyday netizen. You suffer because of your competency. For your arcane Wizardry you might want: —-unsafely-treat-insecure-origin-as-secure https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/...
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on “Certificates for Onion Services”Submitted Extensive list of Chromium command line switches as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWhat is this --light switch? I cannot see it at https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/
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on “Firefox 32-bit Linux Support to End in 2026”Submitted Chrome Browser – List of All Command Line Switches as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe truth is the reason they pointed to SQLite is because the proposed API was so obscenely complicated that it was easier to point to a reference implementation than to accurately specify a standard, which points to a rather fundamental problem with the proposed standard: SQL is too damn complicated, and embedding it in browsers is a bad idea. For a web standard to succeed, you need either Mozilla or Microsoft supp…
Comment linking /2010/10/indexeddb-milestone-8-es5-strict-mode-and-progress-on-print-preview/
on “W3C Working Group Just Killed Web SQL Database”Submitted What's happening with WebKit? by Peter Beverloo as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYou don't need to support CoffeeScript natively. The answer is simple and is called source mapping: the output code carries comments that map each line to a line in the source file. This will also work for LESS and any other transpilers. Work is underway since August to implement it in WebKit ( http://peter.sh/2012/01/css-selector-profiler-source-mapping... ) and Gecko ( https://wiki.mozilla.org/DevTools/Features/So…
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on “Node.js stdlib ported to CoffeeScript (6,501 additions, 15,896 deletions)”Submitted SpellCheck API landed in Chromium nightlies as a story · 3 points
HN discussionChome is moments away from getting this it seems: http://peter.sh/2011/06/flexbox-web-sockets-inclusion-of-web... Great blog btw, I check it each week to see what's cooking under the hood of Chrome :-)
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on “The amazing technology behind Google+ Hangouts”Submitted List of Chromium Command Line Switches as a story · 2 points
HN discussionPretty sure a diluted form of the broken cert treatment for HTTP is available behind a flag in Chrome, so it might be in the pipeline. Source: http://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/ See: --mark-insecure-as
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on “Enabling Secure HTTP for BBC Online”Submitted Chromium has 900+ Command Line Switches as a story · 2 points
HN discussionActually according to http://peter.sh/2012/02/scoped-styles-deflated-websockets-an... we now have IndexedDB inspection in the latest Chromium (behind a flag).
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on “We need to kill off the localStorage API”Submitted List of Chromium Command Line Switches as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWebsockets are only useful to talk to a server. At last year google io presentation, they said people wanting to play an html5 game or do a voip call shouldn't have to use a server, especially if they are in the same room. They should be able to connect directly to each other. More info here: http://peter.sh/2011/03/css-quotes-mock-ups-of-the-html5-dat... http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?view=rev&revision=... h…
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on “P2P API Discovered in Latest Builds of Chromium”Submitted Google is working on threaded HTML parser for WebKit as a story · 2 points
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