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Ian Devlin
Personal blog · iandevlin.com/blogwebprogramming
Ian Devlin's personal blog at iandevlin.com covers web and programming. Since 2012, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-05-29, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Ian Devlin's posts on HTML elements and media, such as adding captions to audio-only files with WebVTT. The comments cite or link the posts without judging the writing.
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What Hacker News says?
I love how "good" parts fail. Don't use "click here" [1] <audio> <source /> <p><a>Birds singing in the morging</a></p> </audio> How would retina display render <video>? <video controls> <source src="video-small.mp4" type="video/mp4" media="all and (max-width:480px)"> <source src="video-small.webm" type="video/webm" media="all and (max-width:480px)"> <source src="video.mp4" type="video/mp4"> <source src="video.webm"…
Comment linking /blog/2012/12/html5/html5-video-for-retina-displays/
on “The Usability of HTML Elements”Submitted Hgroup element removed from the HTML5 specification as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI think this is a bad idea as it's supporting bad, lazy developers who can't be bothered to learn their craft correctly. I've written a bit more about these "WODs" at http://www.iandevlin.com/blog/2012/04/css/on-vendor-prefixes...
Comment linking /blog/2012/04/css/on-vendor-prefixes-and-wods
on “Opera confirms support for WebKit vendor prefixes”Submitted HTML5 video for retina displays as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://iandevlin.com/blog/2015/12/html5/webvtt-and-audio/
Comment linking /blog/2015/12/html5/webvtt-and-audio/
on “Is there anyway to embed close captioning to audio-only files? (e.g. podcast)”Submitted HTML5 media and data URIs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Accessibility and the Lack of Proper HTML as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using the Web Speech API to control a HTML5 video as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Resimagecrop - a RESS based responsive image solution as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted CSS Stacking with display:table as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Responsive images in HTML5 without using JavaScript as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Responsive HTML5 video as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google Chrome supports WebVTT Subtitles as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted On vendor prefixes and WODs as a story · 1 points
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