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Trent Walton

Personal blog · trentwalton.comdesignweb

Trent Walton's personal blog at trentwalton.com covers design and web. Since 2010, 30 different Hacker News readers have linked it 35 times, most often “Scroll Hijacking”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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35mentions?
30HN people?
2010–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 14 in 2013

Trent Walton’s website. Trent is a designer, consultant, and music producer

Most-linked posts?

  1. Scroll Hijacking
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-10-23
  2. Does "You are what you eat" apply to developing?
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-02-19
  3. Future work defined by current work
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-01-27
  4. Flexible Foundations
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-01-07
  5. Unitasking
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-10-04
  6. Hover on iPhone/iPad
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-07-08
  7. Workspace
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-11-18

What Hacker News says?

  1. WickyNilliams · 2013-01-22
    I think you're slightly off with your conclusion of responsive web design. It doesn't aim to cater to people resizing their windows (that's just an added benefit), it aims to cater to all devices regardless of window size. Assuming we're still considering responsive design, if designed from a mobile-first perspective you'd be surprised how clean the code can be to deal with this. Start with minimal resources and mos…

    Comment linking /2013/01/07/flexible-foundations/

    on “Responsive Web Design – Advanced Lesson”
  2. nreece · 2010-07-08

    Submitted Hover on iPhone/iPad as a story · 47 points

    HN discussion
  3. ilovecomputers · 2010-03-26
    Well actually, it's common in the printing business to have each article to be of a unique style. Take National Geographic for instance. One article has a different theme: http://www.valeriedaysings.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/na... from another: http://www.simongarnier.com/images/wordpress/ft_hdr.5.jpg Well actually, those are title pages, but I've read those articles and I can attest that the different designs…

    Comment linking /articles/

    on “Am I the Only One Who Uses a Text Editor to Edit Files?”
  4. stevenklein · 2011-02-19

    Submitted Does "You are what you eat" apply to developing? as a story · 42 points

    HN discussion
  5. bbx · 2015-07-03
    Surprised by the inclusion of "CSS Scroll Snap Points": https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/scroll-snap... It basically allows to do scroll hijacking [1] without any JavaScript, just like this: http://blog.gospodarets.com/demos/scroll-snap-full-screen/ [1]: http://trentwalton.com/2013/10/23/scroll-hijacking/

    Comment linking /2013/10/23/scroll-hijacking/

    on “Firefox 39.0 released”
  6. bpierre · 2013-10-23

    Submitted Scroll Hijacking as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  7. 10ren · 2010-07-09
    x86 Pros: (all to do with windows I think. Are these what you were thinking? Did I miss any?) - windows software - windows drivers (probably less important for a netbook, but I sure wish my scanner and laser printer and wifi hotspots all worked with my eee PC's xandros). - windows itself is familiar, and people know their way around it. - Microsoft sells windows for OEM notebooks really cheap (like $20 I think). An…

    Comment linking /2010/07/05/non-hover/

    on “Ubuntu running on a Nexus One”
  8. nvk · 2013-04-10

    Submitted Reorganization as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  9. adregan · 2013-06-02
    If you are really looking for some readability tips, might I suggest one? Via the incredibly influential, albeit dry, _The Elements of Typographic Style_ by Robert Bringhurst[1] concerning the "comfortable measure," which I find to be the most important aspect of readable text: > Anything from 45 to 75 characters is widely regarded as a satisfactory > length of line for a single-column page set in a serifed text fac…

    Comment linking /

    on “Mistakes Web Designers Make”
  10. nvk · 2013-02-22

    Submitted Jiro, Sushi & Web Type as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  11. nudge · 2011-02-19
    For posterity, the url to the article itself (as opposed to the blog) is http://trentwalton.com/2011/01/26/you-are-what-you-eat/

    Comment linking /2011/01/26/you-are-what-you-eat/

    on “Does "You are what you eat" apply to developing?”
  12. nvk · 2013-02-17

    Submitted Web Fonts I Look Forward To Using as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  13. elou · 2013-02-24
    Poorly implemented here, though a sound concept when done correctly. Information Architects (the creators of iA writer) shared an interesting post [1] on responsive typography that you may find interesting. One rational for having smaller text on small viewports, in addition to saving space, is to adjust for the distance that most readers view content on their phones from. We tend to hold our phones closer to our ey…

    Comment linking /2012/06/19/fluid-type

    on “Let's avoid designing like this”
  14. joshuacc · 2011-05-20

    Submitted CSS Mask-Image & Text as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  15. Smudge · 2012-09-03
    For most uses, fine-grained kerning is overkill. The following will work well enough in browsers that support it (Firefox often turns this on by default): text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; Scripts like Lettering.js are best for typographically interesting headers. Trent Walton ( http://trentwalton.com ) makes great use of this (of course, he's one of the creators of Lettering.js).

    Comment linking /

    on “Lettering.js: a jQuery plugin for web typography”
  16. cleverjake · 2012-10-03

    Submitted A New Microsoft.com as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  17. bbx · 2013-11-04
    Other examples include http://www.apple.com/iphone-5c/ and http://www.milwaukeepolicenews.com . Trent Walton actually wrote an article about it: http://trentwalton.com/2013/10/23/scroll-hijacking/ I myself sometimes trigger animations depending on the scrolling position. But I don't depend upon the exact scrolling position to show or hide elements. I, like you, don't like this trend. It's like a vertical slider, whe…

    Comment linking /2013/10/23/scroll-hijacking/

    on “Ask HN: What is up with the "scroll your own movie" websites?”
  18. whalesalad · 2011-10-27

    Submitted Unitasking as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  19. crizCraig · 2011-01-27

    Submitted Future work defined by current work as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  20. davidedicillo · 2010-07-12

    Submitted Safari Extension: Live CSS Editor as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  21. jackmoore · 2014-03-11

    Submitted Device-Agnostic as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  22. gulbrandr · 2013-11-05

    Submitted Scroll Hijacking as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  23. tswicegood · 2013-01-07

    Submitted Flexible Foundations as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  24. yottabyte47 · 2011-10-04

    Submitted Unitasking as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  25. nvk · 2013-08-13

    Submitted Human Interest as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  26. Ashuu · 2013-06-26

    Submitted Content Choreography as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  27. cheeaun · 2013-04-25

    Submitted Windows Phone 8 Viewport Fix as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  28. Ashuu · 2013-04-22

    Submitted Where to Start as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  29. MarlonPro · 2012-05-21

    Submitted Trent Walton's Workspace as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  30. sdoering · 2012-03-30

    Submitted We should be treating our blogs like our breakfast tables as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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