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QuirksBlog
Personal blog · quirksmode.org/blogweb
QuirksBlog is a personal blog at quirksmode.org about web. Since 2008, 268 different Hacker News readers have linked it 417 times, most often “The Great WebKit Comparison Table”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-03, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 3 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link QuirksMode for browser quirks, DOM and event-handling details, and critiques of browser vendors and standards practice, such as "Breaking the Web Forward". Commenters cite it as support in debates about web standards.
- Recommended for · 3 comments
- One commenter calls its coverage of new JavaScript the most detailed available; another calls a post a nice take.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The Great WebKit Comparison Table11 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2009-10-09
- /9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2008-04-02
- /compatibility.html9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2009-10-14
- Breaking the Web Forward8 people · 29 mentions · first linked 2021-08-12
- New Browser on the Block: Flow7 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2020-01-21
- The HTML5 drag and drop disaster (2009)6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2009-09-21
- A pixel is not a pixel is not a pixel (2010)5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2010-04-20
- CSS - Contents and compatibility5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2008-01-14
- Making the HTML5 <time> element safe for historians4 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2009-04-06
- W3C DOM methods vs. innerHTML: innerHTML is faster4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2009-02-05
What Hacker News says?
https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence https://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2015/07/stop_pushin... http://idlewords.com/talks/web_design_first_100_years.htm http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm http://david.woodhou.se/email.html
Comment linking /blog/archives/2015/07/stop_pushing_th.html
on “Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web”Submitted Web vs. native: let’s concede defeat as a story · 605 points
HN discussionquerySelector and querySelectorAll have bugs in IE8. Checkout the jQuery source code and search for these functions and see the comments and workarounds if you want to be sure: http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.0.js Notice the rbuggyQSA variable. Also check out Quirksmode: http://quirksmode.org/dom/core/
Comment linking /dom/core/
on “You might not need jQuery”Submitted Stop pushing the web forward as a story · 569 points
HN discussionThat is literally how a standard supposed to work: arrive at consensus and have two independent implementations before it can be claimed to be a standard. Or at the very least arrive at an API shape and hammer out obvious problems before shipping. Otherwise you get Internet Explorer, in reverse: https://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2021/08/breaking_th... Chrome literally doesn't even bother pretending that many…
Comment linking /blog/archives/2021/08/breaking_the_we.html
on “Ladybird passes the Apple 90% threshold on web-platform-tests”Submitted I Love MDN, or the cult of the free in action as a story · 417 points
HN discussionI still read some of the classics (surprised nobody mentioned them so far) and also a few newer ones: https://kottke.org/ https://daringfireball.net https://seths.blog https://www.freedomain.com/blog/ https://www.cringely.com https://www.zeldman.com https://captaincapitalism.blogspot.com http://quirksmode.org/blog/ http://hypercritical.co
Comment linking /blog/
on “Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?”Submitted The problem with Angular as a story · 304 points
HN discussion"Google learned from Microsoft’s mistakes and follows a novel embrace, extend, and extinguish strategy by breaking the web and stomping on the bits. Who cares if it breaks as long as we go forward." https://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2021/08/breaking_th...
Comment linking /blog/archives/2021/08/breaking_the_we.html
on “CSS Grid Lanes”Submitted Tired of Safari as a story · 283 points
HN discussionIf you are looking for something that is more front-end specific Paul Irish has put together a really great list of blogs, and made a google reader bundle out of them. http://www.google.com/reader/bundle/user/1116587048495144532... Some standout blogs that I always read about programming are: http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/ - Was writing about JS before it was cool, now it just has some of the most detailed coverage…
Comment linking /blog/
on “Ask HN: What programming blogs do you read daily?”Submitted The cult of the free must die as a story · 262 points
HN discussionThe web site should also use terms like "arrogant priests rule the web" from browsers' attempt to kill alert/prompt: https://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2021/08/breaking_th... Also: "the needs of users and authors (i.e. developers) should be treated as higher priority than those of implementors (i.e. browser vendors), yet the higher priority constituencies are at the mercy of the lower priority ones": https://d…
Comment linking /blog/archives/2021/08/breaking_the_we.html
on “XSLT RIP”Submitted There are now at least eight Chromium-based Android default browsers as a story · 238 points
HN discussionI wouldn't be that upset about the styling limitations if we at least had a reasonable way to give it a size. The common workaround is pretty nasty: http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/inputfile.html
Comment linking /dom/inputfile.html
on “A story about <input>”Submitted PPK: "Apple is not evil. iPhone developers are stupid." as a story · 169 points
HN discussionMany, perhaps most mobile Chrome users do not run the latest Chrome, and there's many differences among vendors. See http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2015/02/chrome_conti...
Comment linking /blog/archives/2015/02/chrome_continue.html
on “Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software”Submitted Never ever do business with Samsung India Software Operations as a story · 157 points
HN discussionChrome is IE, but in reverse: https://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2021/08/breaking_th...
Comment linking /blog/archives/2021/08/breaking_the_we.html
on “All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding”Submitted A new Microsoft browser? as a story · 155 points
HN discussionCSS media queries don't get handled by anything that has the capability to send that information back, so window size reporting isn't needed for that. The only place that needs it, are those JS apps that manually position items. Measuring text overflow is only possible by the APIs exposed by the CSSOM set [0], which also happens to include the window sizing elements. If we only allowed a subset of that group, all th…
Comment linking /dom/w3c_cssom.html
on “Privacy analysis of Tiktok’s app and website”Submitted Scrolling your website past the iPhone X’s notch as a story · 131 points
HN discussionNo DOCTYPE means "old document" to the browser and render it in Quirks Mode: http://www.quirksmode.org/css/quirksmode.html
Comment linking /css/quirksmode.html
on “Ben the Bodyguard: Gorgeous HTML5 Website”Submitted The web's original sin as a story · 123 points
HN discussionhttp://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2015/07/stop_pushing...
Comment linking /blog/archives/2015/07/stop_pushing_th.html
on “Stop pushing the web forward”Submitted Quirksmode is seeking to raise € 2,500 in donations as a story · 109 points
HN discussionWhat's wrong with that site? quirksmode.org used to be a great resource but it stopped being updated 10 years ago when IE 6 was still the "thing". Nowadays, http://caniuse.com replaced it. So quirksmode transformed to a rant blog, like this one we had on HN three months ago: http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2015/05/web_vs_nativ...
Comment linking /blog/archives/2015/05/web_vs_native_l.html
on “Stop pushing the web forward”Submitted The iPhone obsession as a story · 108 points
HN discussionThe fact that PPK did a lot of good work on web, doesnt mean this article is good. Any genius can create crapwork. So did albert einstein. I once saw a presentation from PPK where he proposed JSON over SMS....( http://quirksmode.org/presentations/Spring2012/bigm.pdf ) IMHO that presentation was technically not very strong.
Comment linking /presentations/Spring2012/bigm.pdf
on “Stop pushing the web forward”Submitted Steps to save webOS as a story · 99 points
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