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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.

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18mentions?
16HN people?
2010–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2011

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?

  1. How to Detect Font-Smoothing Using JavaScript
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-02-14

What Hacker News says?

  1. 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…”
  2. Submitted A Developer I Admire — Walter Zorn as a story · 49 points

    HN discussion
  3. outside 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?”
  4. Submitted Cross Browser HTML5 Progress Bars In Depth as a story · 49 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Cross Browser GPU Acceleration and requestAnimationFrame in Depth as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Fixing Typography Inside of 2-D CSS Transforms as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted CSS Cross Browser Transforms — even in IE as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Cross Browser CSS Transforms, even in IE - using JS as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted The CSS3 Matrix() Transform for the Mathematically Challenged as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Better Web Typography With font-weight, Autohinting and font-feature-settings as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Cross-Browser SVG Text-Paths Without JavaScript — Even In Older IE. as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Pixel-perfect CSS3 border-image in depth as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted How to Detect Font-Smoothing Using JavaScript as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Creating Cross Browser HTML5 Forms Now as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Cross Browser HTML5 Ruby Annotations Using CSS (2010) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Using WEBP/JPEG 2000/JPEG-XR/APNG Now with Picturefill and Modernizr as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Shell script to convert ​font-face fonts on any OS as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Coding Colors Easily Using CSS3 hsl() Notation as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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