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Marko Dugonjić
Personal blog · maratz.com/blogdesignwebcareer
Marko Dugonjić's personal blog at maratz.com covers design, web and career. Since 2008, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this 2006 post on detecting installed fonts from a web page. The only comment suggests Flash is an easier way to detect fonts than the approach the post describes.
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.
maratz.com is a collection of personal thoughts on webdesign, typography, web standards, user experience and occasional superfluous banter brought irregularly by Marko Dugonjić.
What Hacker News says?
Seems much easier to use Flash to detect installed fonts… http://www.maratz.com/blog/archives/2006/08/18/detect-visito...
Comment linking /blog/archives/2006/08/18/detect-visitors-fonts-with-flash/
on “Flipping Typical (Fonts)”- eb · 2008-03-30
Submitted You're Not a Programmer, We Won’t Pay You That Much as a story · 19 points
HN discussion Submitted Article readability stats with PHP as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The industry trend: leaving client work as a story · 1 points
HN discussion