This is amazing. Facebook messenger without the temptation of the notifications icon. Thank you for bringing this to my attention.
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jackocnr
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jackocnr.com
Done.
Ha, good to see this here - so incredibly useful, and already ported to lots of useful languages. Handling phone numbers gets messy really quickly: formatting/validation for national/international numbers, in different forms (land-line/mobile/premium etc), in hundreds of different countries... These guys have done a great job, and are also super responsive/helpful when you raise issues.
A word of warning: if you ever set out to handle international numbers in a web frontend - you may think "it can't be that hard - maybe take me a couple of hours" (like me), then do yourself a favour and save yourself a week of unexpected work and use the jQuery plugin that I ended up creating (I don't understand why this didn't already exist) which uses libphonenumber for all the magic: https://github.com/Bluefieldscom/intl-tel-input. Hope it saves you some time.
99% of the time I just want XHR, so this change added an extra click every time I open dev tools to look at the Network panel (also this step can be laggy if you're in development and you have hundreds of separate requests for your scripts/stylesheets, which I never care about). So I could actually be in favour of hiding away the filters if I could just set a default filter? Or if it just remembered my last selection?
Finally! I have wanted this feature since I started using tabs, about 10 years ago. Yet another win for Chrome.