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Gerrit van Aaken

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Gerrit van Aaken's personal blog at praegnanz.de covers design and web. Since 2010, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “HTML5 Video Player Comparison”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.

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11mentions?
8HN people?
2010–2019first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2011

Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this German-language weblog for its typeface write-ups: mini-portraits of free fonts and in-depth pieces on fonts such as Gentium and Cardo. Also cited for a list of HTML5 video players.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Gerrit van Aaken. Webdesign und Apps aus Würzburg – seit 1996.

Most-linked posts?

  1. HTML5 Video Player Comparison
    7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2010-09-28

What Hacker News says?

  1. Tomte · 2019-06-05Recommends
    In German, but the selection is good: https://praegnanz.de/weblog/freie-schriften-im-mini-portrait https://praegnanz.de/weblog/schriften-im-mini-portrait-ii And many in-depth discussions like https://praegnanz.de/weblog/gentium or https://praegnanz.de/weblog/cardo

    Comment linking /weblog/cardo

    on “National Park Typeface”
  2. nreece · 2013-10-10

    Submitted HTML5 Video Player Comparison as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  3. unicornporn · 2012-01-11
    http://praegnanz.de/html5video/

    Comment linking /html5video/

    on “Video.js v3.0 - Complete rebuild w/ lightweight flash player and CDN.”
  4. DanielRibeiro · 2011-12-15

    Submitted HTML5 Video Player Comparison as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. jdlshore · 2013-11-22
    nwenzel, your video at http://blog.simplelegal.com/simplelegal-reports doesn't play on Firefox. I'd suggest using a service like Vimeo or one of the tools listed at http://praegnanz.de/html5video/ to make sure you have a Flash fallback.

    Comment linking /html5video/

    on “What does a 200-Page Legal Bill Look Like?”
  6. Yansky · 2011-02-08

    Submitted HTML5 Video Player Comparison as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. bitcartel · 2012-11-09
    Plus lots of HTML 5 video players out there. Things are looking good. http://praegnanz.de/html5video/

    Comment linking /html5video/

    on “Introducing Wikipedia’s new HTML5 video player ”
  8. joshuacc · 2010-09-28

    Submitted HTML5 video player comparison as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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