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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.

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89mentions?
4HN people?
2018–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 51 in 2019

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

The author on HN?

SimeVidas · 1,504 karma · member since 2014

I create news content for web developers on https://webplatform.news.

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. CSS: Is() and:where() are coming to browsers
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-06-04
  2. My list of over 600 web development feeds
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-11-01

What Hacker News says?

  1. > 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”
  2. Submitted CSS calc(100% – 0) is invalid, but calc(100% - 0px) is valid as a story · 40 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted CSS: Is() and:where() are coming to browsers as a story · 20 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted The HTML “ping” attribute is disabled in Firefox as a story · 18 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Safari supports user style sheets as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted My findings after browsing the web without a User-Agent header for one week as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Web pages can now detect when Chrome’s window is covered by another window as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Consider adding a “skip to main content” link to your website as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Twitter’s PWA Does Not Indicate That More Menu Options Are Available as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Rails 6 just committed to shipping source maps by default in production as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Google’s File System Access API is not a standard as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Why CSS:before content doesn’t work on inputs and images as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted W3C Publishing Working Group’s updated scope and goals (notes) as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted CSS: :is() and :where() are coming to browsers as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Daily news: BBC moves from iframe to Shadow DOM, curved text with SVG, and more as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted GitHub says its cookies don’t necessitate a cookie banner as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Announcing free, daily content for web developers as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted You can prevent browsers from scrolling dynamically focused elements into view as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted How to Publish Your Progressive Web App in the Google Play Store (notes) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Phishing-proof passwordless authentication with FIDO2 and WebAuthn (notes) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted My list of over 600 web development feeds as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted My Takeaways from Rachel Andrew’s CSS Flexbox Series on Smashing Magazine as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted HTML context menus to be removed from Firefox as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Firefox’s criteria for installable web apps as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted CSS min() and max() functions are counterintuitive as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted HTML input type=number is only intended for amounts as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted Web Platform News: Apple’s Proposed IsLoggedIn API, Browser Compatibility Survey as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted The grid form use-case for CSS Subgrid as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted Web dev news: CSS “revert” value, Microsoft’s tool for visualizing tab stops as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted Daily news: The issue with font-variation-settings, tracking prevention in Edge as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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