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Nib 0.2.4

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@demirelo demirelo released this 12 Nov 09:16
v0.2.4
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  • Nib works in Signal Desktop. Signal, an Electron app, showed no text to Nib, because it ignores the switch that Nib sends to Electron apps. Nib now sends a second switch, the one that VoiceOver uses, once to an Electron app that still shows nothing after one second. Other apps get no change.
  • The diagnosis says if the app in front is an Electron app, and if Nib sent it the second switch.

Nib 0.2.3

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@demirelo demirelo released this 11 Nov 13:48
v0.2.3
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  • Check document for Google Docs. Docs draws its text as a picture, so Nib cannot check there while you type. A button at the lower right of a document now reads the text of the document and lists the fixes in a panel. You copy a fix and make the change in the document yourself.
  • Fixed: on a Google document the popup said "Nib is checking this text field: no suggestions". Nib took the hidden input box of Docs for a text field. It now leaves that box alone, and the popup points to Check document.
  • Fixed: the browser checker marked many common words as spelling errors, for example "using" (it offered "suing"), "box", "earlier" and "database". About 880 common words are added, and endings such as "taller" and "nicest" count as correct. In 1.5 million words of correct English, the share of wrong marks fell from 2.5 % to 0.8 %. The rest is mostly project jargon.

This release also holds everything from 0.2.0 to 0.2.2. See CHANGELOG.md.

Install. Open the disk image and drag Nib to the Applications folder. The image is not notarized by Apple, so macOS blocks the first launch. The installer window shows what to do: click Done, double-click the Privacy & Security icon in the window, scroll down and click Open Anyway, then open Nib again. A setup guide then helps with the permission, the model and the browser extension.

Updates. This build is signed ad hoc. After each update, macOS asks for the Accessibility permission again. Reload the extension on the Extensions page after an update.