{"id":1680,"date":"2008-02-28T21:08:10","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T01:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/28\/finding-the-os-x-turbo-button\/"},"modified":"2014-09-26T08:38:54","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T12:38:54","slug":"finding-the-os-x-turbo-button","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/28\/finding-the-os-x-turbo-button\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding the OS X Turbo Button"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firefox developer <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.vlad1.com\/2008\/02\/28\/finding-the-os-x-turbo-button\/\">Vladimir Vuki&#263;evi&#263;<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/blog.vlad1.com\/2008\/02\/28\/finding-the-os-x-turbo-button\/\"><p>All these WK* methods are undocumented, and they appear in binary blobs shipped along with the WebKit source (see the WebKitLibraries directory). There are now over 100 private &ldquo;OS-secrets-only-WebKit-knows&rdquo; in the library, many of which are referred to in a mostly comment-free header file. Reading the WebKit code is pretty interesting; there are all sorts of potentially useful Cocoa internals bits you can pick up, more easily on the Objective C side (e.g. search for &ldquo;AppKitSecretsIKnow&rdquo; in the code), but also in other areas as a pile of these WK* methods used in quite a few places.\r\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.vlad1.com\/2008\/02\/28\/finding-the-os-x-turbo-button\/#comment-573\">David Hyatt<\/a> writes in the comments:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/blog.vlad1.com\/2008\/02\/28\/finding-the-os-x-turbo-button\/#comment-573\"><p>The programmatic disabling of coalesced updates should not be public API. It&rsquo;s actually a very dangerous thing to do. We aren&rsquo;t really happy with that code in WebKit, but we had to do it to avoid performance regressions in apps that embedded WebKit. Technically it&rsquo;s wrong though, since we turn off the coalesced updates for any app that uses WebKit! This includes drawing they do that doesn&rsquo;t even use WebKit.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firefox developer Vladimir Vuki&#263;evi&#263;: All these WK* methods are undocumented, and they appear in binary blobs shipped along with the WebKit source (see the WebKitLibraries directory). There are now over 100 private &ldquo;OS-secrets-only-WebKit-knows&rdquo; in the library, many of which are referred to in a mostly comment-free header file. Reading the WebKit code is pretty interesting; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[279,30,32,74,1013,328],"class_list":["post-1680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category","tag-firefox","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-opensource","tag-private-api","tag-webkit"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9744,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions\/9744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}