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User Agent Man
Personal blog · useragentman.com/blogwebdesign
User Agent Man is a personal blog at useragentman.com about web and design. Since 2010, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “How to Detect Font-Smoothing Using JavaScript”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite User Agent Man for web accessibility and performance, including a WCAG wishlist and a post explaining how to detect features with an implementation.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- How to Detect Font-Smoothing Using JavaScript2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-02-14
What Hacker News says?
This article explains and provides an implementation to do that: http://www.useragentman.com/blog/2009/11/29/how-to-detect-fo...
Comment linking /blog/2009/11/29/how-to-detect-font-smoothing-using-javascript/
on “So I Made A Mashup, And Then…”Submitted A Developer I Admire — Walter Zorn as a story · 49 points
HN discussionoutside of the company walls as the context for empirical measure: 1. is the web becoming more [accessible]( https://abilitynet.org.uk/news-blogs/inaccessible-websites-k... http://useragentman.com/wcag-wishlist/ )? 2. are the web pages getting [faster]( https://www.nngroup.com/articles/the-need-for-speed/ ) and lighter? 3. is it righting wrongs about existing non-performant [code]( https://www.webperf.tips/tip/cache…
Comment linking /wcag-wishlist/
on “Ask HN: If LLMs are so useful, why haven't we seen any spike in productivity?”Submitted Cross Browser HTML5 Progress Bars In Depth as a story · 49 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cross Browser GPU Acceleration and requestAnimationFrame in Depth as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fixing Typography Inside of 2-D CSS Transforms as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted CSS Cross Browser Transforms — even in IE as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cross Browser CSS Transforms, even in IE - using JS as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The CSS3 Matrix() Transform for the Mathematically Challenged as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Better Web Typography With font-weight, Autohinting and font-feature-settings as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cross-Browser SVG Text-Paths Without JavaScript — Even In Older IE. as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pixel-perfect CSS3 border-image in depth as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Detect Font-Smoothing Using JavaScript as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating Cross Browser HTML5 Forms Now as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cross Browser HTML5 Ruby Annotations Using CSS (2010) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using WEBP/JPEG 2000/JPEG-XR/APNG Now with Picturefill and Modernizr as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Shell script to convert font-face fonts on any OS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Coding Colors Easily Using CSS3 hsl() Notation as a story · 1 points
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