Peter Gasston

Personal blog · broken-links.com web programming

Peter Gasston writes Broken Links, a personal blog at broken-links.com about web and programming. Since 2011, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.

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10HN people?

2011–2016first – last linked?

Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2012

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

Why HN links it

Linked for front-end web development posts on CSS variables, CSS gradient syntax, HTML5 video support and Bootstrap buttons. The comments cite these posts as sources and do not judge the writing.

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.

What Hacker News says?

charliepark · 2012-02-01
Thanks so much for the heads-up. Fixed this. For those interested in this, mindhunter sent me a link on the issue, http://www.broken-links.com/2012/01/11/the-new-and-hopefully... .
Comment linking /2012/01/11/the-new-and-hopefully-final-linear-gradient-syntax/
on “Beautiful Buttons for Twitter Bootstrappers”
cleverjake · 2012-08-06
Submitted Firefox supports supports, gets my support as a story · 64 points
HN discussion
saulr · 2016-02-07
It looks like this can be changed with `setProperty`. There's a demo[1] that works on Firefox 31+ and Chrome 49+ [1] https://www.broken-links.com/2014/08/28/css-variables-updati...
Comment linking /2014/08/28/css-variables-updating-custom-properties-javascript/
on “CSS Variables landing in Chrome 49”
robin_reala · 2012-10-16
Submitted A review of Internet Explorer on Xbox 360 as a story · 16 points
HN discussion
projct · 2012-06-27
<video> tag _only_ supports h264 in android 2.2, it should work fine. their site's incorrectly detecting your browser or your Android vendor screwed up bigtime... or both. Galaxy S for example has some browser quirks[1]. [1] http://www.broken-links.com/2010/07/08/making-html5-video-wo...
Comment linking /2010/07/08/making-html5-video-work-on-android-phones/
on “Simplest way to build apps for Windows Phone”
robin_reala · 2015-04-28
Submitted The Future of the Open Web as a story · 5 points
HN discussion
robin_reala · 2013-03-12
Not if you use fragment URLs: a single SVG with all your icons then reference icons.svg#telephone_icon or whatever. More info at http://www.broken-links.com/2012/08/14/better-svg-sprites-wi...
Comment linking /2012/08/14/better-svg-sprites-with-fragment-identifiers/
on “The Era of Symbol Fonts”
robin_reala · 2012-11-22
Submitted Accessibility isn’t Optional as a story · 3 points
HN discussion
tiles · 2011-01-04
For a comparison between the two syntaxes, see this article: http://www.broken-links.com/2009/11/26/css-gradient-syntax-c... http://www.broken-links.com/2009/11/30/css-gradient-syntax-c...
Comment linking /2009/11/30/css-gradient-syntax-comparison-of-mozilla-and-webkit-part-2/
on “Webkit now supports W3/Mozilla style CSS gradients”
robin_reala · 2015-09-01
Submitted Feeling Like an Unwelcome Guest on Medium.com as a story · 2 points
HN discussion
johanbrook · 2012-06-26
Submitted The new radial gradient syntax as a story · 2 points
HN discussion
alexcasalboni · 2015-08-27
Submitted Mobile Browsing Around the World as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
stopsatgreen · 2013-04-10
Submitted Introducing HTML’s new template element as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
robin_reala · 2013-04-04
Submitted Creating a custom icon font using IcoMoon as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
robin_reala · 2012-04-30
Submitted On Opera’s Implementation of WebKit Aliases as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
pelle · 2011-03-02
Submitted Using Media Queries in the Real World » Broken Links as a story · 1 points
HN discussion

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