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Hidde's blog is a personal blog at hidde.blog about web and design. Since 2022, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Semantics and the popover attribute: what to use when?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-02, and you can follow it by feed.

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18mentions?
16HN people?
2022–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2023

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Hidde's post on popover semantics, the HTML popover attribute. The only comment is a bare link, so it 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.

Hidde's blog about web accessibility, standards, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and more.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Semantics and the popover attribute: what to use when?
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-05-24
  2. Trains Are Offices
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-11-29

What Hacker News says?

  1. *popover attribute https://hidde.blog/popover-semantics/

    Comment linking /popover-semantics/

    on a deleted thread
  2. Submitted Who wins when we filter the open web through an opaque system? as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Trains Are Offices as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Common accessibility issues that you can fix today as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted I'm back to building my own digital music collection as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Trains Are Offices as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Clippy Returned (As an Unnecessary "AI") as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Semantics and the popover attribute: what to use when? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Dialogs, modality and popovers seem similar. How are they different? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Yes, let's teach LLMs accessibility, but also the companies using them as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted How to avoid that your post about AI helps the hype as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted "AI" and accessible front-end components: is the nuance generatable? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Ableist Interactions as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Positioning Anchored Popovers as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Semantics and the popover attribute: what to use when? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Data-informed flex-grow for illustration purposes as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Better Accessible Names as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted The web doesn’t have version numbers as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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