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Mike Taylor

Personal blog · miketaylr.com/postsprogrammingweb

Mike Taylor writes Mike Taylr Dot Com Web Log, a personal blog at miketaylr.com about programming and web. Since 2012, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Google Tier 1 Search in Firefox for Android Nightly”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-10-25, and you can follow it by feed.

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11mentions?
11HN people?
2012–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Mike Taylor's blog for browser history: a talk on user-agent and navigator quirks, and a page tracking Chrome support for HTML5 form controls. Commenters cite it as a source.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Erotic web browser fan fiction.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Google Tier 1 Search in Firefox for Android Nightly
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-07-03

What Hacker News says?

  1. mnutt · 2012-07-15
    Not only the user agent, either. Try javascript `navigator.appName` in any browser, and you'll get "netscape". `navigator.appCodeName` in most browsers returns "mozilla". Mike Taylor gave a talk about this and more at yesterday's GothamJS conference: http://miketaylr.com/pres/gothamjs/shower/

    Comment linking /pres/gothamjs/shower/

    on “The long and sordid history of the user-agent HTTP header field”
  2. tbassetto · 2013-10-22

    Submitted IsMobileDevice and the death of innocence as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  3. paulirish · 2012-08-04
    > How about we get around to <input type=date> now? It's been in Chrome stable for five weeks now. :) <input type=color> as well. http://miketaylr.com/code/html5-forms-ui-support.html Chrome's webforms status is here: http://www.chromium.org/developers/web-platform-status/forms and www.chromestatus.com usually captures everything else.

    Comment linking /code/html5-forms-ui-support.html

    on “GetUserMedia API lands on Chrome”
  4. bzbarsky · 2018-07-03

    Submitted Google Tier 1 Search in Firefox for Android Nightly as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. sfink · 2019-01-24

    Submitted Everything is Terrible (but more so inside a keypress event) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. ingve · 2018-07-04

    Submitted Google Tier 1 Search in Firefox for Android Nightly as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. josephscott · 2016-05-12

    Submitted MITM compatibility issues as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. glandium · 2022-12-29

    Submitted When the IE 11 User-Agent forced Mozilla to freeze part of its User-Agent string as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. sangeeth96 · 2021-10-02

    Submitted Testing Chrome version 100 for fun and profit (but mostly fun I guess) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. staktrace · 2021-03-15

    Submitted Slack is optimized for Firefox version 520 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. AndrewDucker · 2015-07-06

    Submitted Upcoming Changes to the Firefox for Android UA String as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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