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Chris Burnell
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Chris Burnell's personal blog at chrisburnell.com covers programming and web. Since 2024, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “HTML Can Do That”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for a post on HTML features, such as the Popover API, that create tooltips and dropdowns without JavaScript. The comment cites it as a reference and does not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I’m Chris Burnell, a Front End Developer based in Halifax, Canada. This is where I think, write, and share my passion for front end development and the web.
Most-linked posts?
- HTML Can Do That2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-08-19
What Hacker News says?
I'm pretty sure it does but maybe I'm wrong, I had never tried to create popovers/popups using CSS. What's neat[†] about the popovers API is that it doesn't need any JS, you just write a couple of HTML attributes and voila, a popover/popup. They will run with JS disabled as well. https://chrisburnell.com/html-can-do-that/ [†] Neat for me building things like tooltips and dropdowns into my web apps without using JS;…
Comment linking /html-can-do-that/
on “AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint”Submitted HTML Can Do That as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Observatory – A JavaScript Class to Simplify Managing Mutation Observers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lost in Time as a story · 1 points
HN discussion