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Stark Raving Finkle
Personal blog · starkravingfinkle.org/blogprogrammingweb
Stark Raving Finkle is a personal blog at starkravingfinkle.org about programming and web. Since 2007, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Firefox for Android telemetry data”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog for its SVG and browser-support posts, including an SVG-in-IE post, and for a Firefox for Android UI heatmap. Comments cite the posts as sources without judging 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.
Most-linked posts?
- /blog/2006/03/svg-in-ie/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-10-17
- Firefox for Android telemetry data2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-07-26
What Hacker News says?
Here is a heatmap with data on how often these different buttons are clicked: http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2014/07/firefox-for-androi...
Comment linking /blog/2014/07/firefox-for-android-collecting-and-using-telemetry/
on “Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice”Submitted Firefox on Mobile: Browser or App? as a story · 25 points
HN discussionI don't think that's entirely correct (yes, XKCD #386 applies): First, I'd hesitate to use the phrase "native C++ UI stack". Mozilla's UI framework is XUL, which is a mixture of JS and XML. Presumably there's C++ underneath, but based on my reading it's a mixture of web-based technologies. Second, because the original Firefox for Android UI was written in XUL, they had to load the entire Gecko architecture in order…
Comment linking /blog/2011/11/firefox-for-android-native-android-ui/
on “Android++: Native development and debugging extension for Visual Studio”Submitted Firefox for Android telemetry data as a story · 5 points
HN discussionhttp://code.google.com/p/svgweb/ or one day someone will finish a more robust htc http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2006/03/svg-in-ie/ No pretty solution but we're stuck with IE8 until 2020
Comment linking /blog/2006/03/svg-in-ie/
on “SVG vs PNG”Submitted How the Fennec UI adjusts based on screen size and orientation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWith "faster DOM graphics", I meant to include SVG. I can't believe IE still has no native support for it :-( I see that depending on your requirements, there are partial SVG and Canvas implementations for IE in JavaScript, as well as higher-level JS APIs that work across the browsers. http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2006/03/svg-in-ie/ http://excanvas.sourceforge.net/ http://www.liquidx.net/plotkit/
Comment linking /blog/2006/03/svg-in-ie/
on “Adobe Drops Licensing Fees, Gives Away Flash For Devices”Submitted Firefox 3 - XUL Application Runtime as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Engineering Productivity: Being Actionable as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Firefox for Android: Remote Debugging is Here as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fennec: Mozilla for mobile alpha available as a story · 1 points
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