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Markdown (incl. Gemini Chat Responses) to Blogger Blog Post HTML - Procedures and Tips

Jump Links VS Code NBSP Find and Replace Removing id attribute from header tags using regex in VS Code Changing h3 tags to h2 excluding h3 tags followed by specific class using regex in VS Code SOP for Gemini chat markdown conversion to html for Blogger post VS Code NBSP Find and Replace # 20:59, 13 April 2026 From Gem chat: VS Code NBSP Find and Replace Me: When I copy pasted a message from one of our chats to VS Code, what seemed to me to be a space got copied over as NBSP character which showed as a space but was not being matched in a find with space. ... [After getting soln.] Me: That's it. Now it shows me a border around it. Hmm. I think this has changed in recent VS Code updates. Previously I would see it without the need for this setting. Please give me a short message on this issue and fix which I will add to my blog. Gem: It is very likely that a recent update tightened the default "Unicode Highlight" logic to reduce visual noise, moving the NBSP (Non-B...

HTML Refresher and Detailed Study - Part 3

Post series: Part 1 ,    Part 2 Contents JavaScript can be confusing due to convenience over explicitness approach Web Workers API Web Worker is different from Service Worker Service Workers are also Web API HTML standard is massive now HTML Living Standard W3C is no longer Boss of HTML; Browser vendors are in charge Chromium (Google/Microsoft), WebKit (Apple) and Gecko (Mozilla) are bosses of the web now Living Standard is followed by Platform Engineering (Browsers). Product Engineering (.NET, Java) uses versions Big Tech has great power over web but Mozilla provides some balance HTML Server-Sent Events API Push Notifications (Firebase Cloud Messaging) HTML Living Standard Notifications Support Basic Web APIs not mentioned in W3Schools History API and IntersectionObserver API fetch API is Web API and not JavaScript language feature Node.js 18 onwards provides fetch API Historical background of fetch API W3Schools ...