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Stephanie Rieger

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Stephanie Rieger's personal blog at stephanierieger.com covers design and web. Since 2011, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “A plea for progressive enhancement”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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9mentions?
9HN people?
2011–2013first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 7 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters link Stephanie Rieger's progressive enhancement post as support for the point that single page apps leave out users without JavaScript, including many iOS and Android users.

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.

Designer, researcher, strategist.

Most-linked posts?

  1. A plea for progressive enhancement
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-01-03

What Hacker News says?

  1. There's also the added benefit of being able to support users without JavaScript, which includes a large portion of iOS/Android users. http://stephanierieger.com/a-plea-for-progressive-enhancemen...

    Comment linking /a-plea-for-progressive-enhancement/

    on “Single page apps in depth (new free book)”
  2. Submitted It's 2012, HTML5 is awesome, and I'm surfing a PDF as a story · 245 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted The ‘trouble’ with Android (screen size variants) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted A plea for progressive enhancement as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Stranger things have happened as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Mobile users don’t do that as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Would you like a tablet with those fries? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted The curious properties of software as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted A plea for progressive enhancement as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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