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Šime Vidas
Personal blog · webplatform.news/issues · on HN as SimeVidaswebprogramming
Šime Vidas writes Web Platform News, a personal blog at webplatform.news about web and programming. Since 2018, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 89 times, most often “CSS: Is() and:where() are coming to browsers”. The last post was in 2022, 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 blog for web platform and browser news, such as the Flow browser passing the Acid tests. The one comment is a neutral question about whether a browser can be built from public web specs.
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.
News content for web developers written by Šime Vidas
Most-linked posts?
- CSS: Is() and:where() are coming to browsers2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-06-04
- My list of over 600 web development feeds2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-11-01
What Hacker News says?
> I wonder if the Edge/Brave strategy is better if you’re trying to get compatibility and performance as fast as possible Of course it's faster than developing a browser from scratch, or working with a browser startup on integration etc. but that isn't the question. The question is whether it's even feasible to develop a browser with publicly available information (HTML 5 specs including SVG and MathML, but which on…
Comment linking /issues/2020-06-04
on “Flow browser passes the Acid tests”Submitted CSS calc(100% – 0) is invalid, but calc(100% - 0px) is valid as a story · 40 points
HN discussionSubmitted CSS: Is() and:where() are coming to browsers as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSubmitted The HTML “ping” attribute is disabled in Firefox as a story · 18 points
HN discussionSubmitted Safari supports user style sheets as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted My findings after browsing the web without a User-Agent header for one week as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Web pages can now detect when Chrome’s window is covered by another window as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Consider adding a “skip to main content” link to your website as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Twitter’s PWA Does Not Indicate That More Menu Options Are Available as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rails 6 just committed to shipping source maps by default in production as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google’s File System Access API is not a standard as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why CSS:before content doesn’t work on inputs and images as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted W3C Publishing Working Group’s updated scope and goals (notes) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted CSS: :is() and :where() are coming to browsers as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Daily news: BBC moves from iframe to Shadow DOM, curved text with SVG, and more as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted GitHub says its cookies don’t necessitate a cookie banner as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Announcing free, daily content for web developers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted You can prevent browsers from scrolling dynamically focused elements into view as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Publish Your Progressive Web App in the Google Play Store (notes) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Phishing-proof passwordless authentication with FIDO2 and WebAuthn (notes) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted My list of over 600 web development feeds as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Takeaways from Rachel Andrew’s CSS Flexbox Series on Smashing Magazine as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted HTML context menus to be removed from Firefox as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Firefox’s criteria for installable web apps as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted CSS min() and max() functions are counterintuitive as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted HTML input type=number is only intended for amounts as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Web Platform News: Apple’s Proposed IsLoggedIn API, Browser Compatibility Survey as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The grid form use-case for CSS Subgrid as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Web dev news: CSS “revert” value, Microsoft’s tool for visualizing tab stops as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Daily news: The issue with font-variation-settings, tracking prevention in Edge as a story · 2 points
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