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Faruk Ateş
farukat.es · Personal blog · on HN since 2009
Faruk Ateş is a web designer and developer who writes about browsers, CSS, web standards and sexism in tech.
What HN saysHN commenters quote his definition of a modern browser and link his posts in arguments about sexism in the tech community.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Kathy Sierra On The Primer On Sexism Discussion2 people · 91 points · first shared 2012 · 134 comments on HN
- 2How Flipboard Chose Form Over Function for Their Web Version2 people · 6 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 3Why are there so few good men programmers?2 people · 4 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 4Pure CSS Icons: Make The Madness Stop2 people · 1 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 5Opera Confirms WebKit Prefix Usage1 people · 33 points · first shared 2012 · 49 comments on HN
- 6What's with the silence?1 people · 25 points · first shared 2013 · 42 comments on HN
- 7Google, H.264 and Video on the Web1 people · 17 points · first shared 2011 · 26 comments on HN
- 8Design Thinking vs. Data Thinking1 people · 17 points · first shared 2010 · 6 comments on HN
- 9The Experience Disparity, on FarukAt.eş1 people · 4 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 10A New Code of Character1 people · 4 points · first shared 2011 · 1 comments on HN
- 11But How Will They Make Money?1 people · 4 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 12IE8 and the X-UA-Compatible ruletree1 people · 3 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
- 13Women in Tech & Design: the breakdown1 people · 3 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 14Apple And Its Questionable Decision With Maps1 people · 3 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 15Native vs. Web Apps1 people · 2 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
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m3Lith · 2015-07-16
I guess it would be something along the lines of this quote from http://farukat.es/journal/2011/02/528-modern-browser: "A modern browser is any browser that: successfully renders a site that you just built using web standards, testing only in your browser of choice along the way, with all the essentials functioning well; without you having written any browser-specific hacks, forks or workarounds; and shows great performance as you navigate it."
KuraFire · 2011-05-24
http://farukat.es/journal/2011/05/586-snarky-truth-reasoned-explanatio… FACTS! STUDIES! Etc.
JangoSteve · 2010-09-14
I just needed to unwind this weekend, so I developed a new jQuery plugin / stylesheet that creates emoticons on any webpage in pure CSS (using a bunch of CSS3 properties). The benefits of this approach are described in the post here.
On a side note, I emailed Faruk Ateş (who wrote this post entitled "Pure CSS Icons: Make The Madness Stop" [1]) to see what he thought, and he said it was a pretty solid implementation.
One of the things that Faruk (and skatey on IRC) brought up is that one of the age-old annoyances with inline emoticon replacement in bodies of text (prevalent in forums) is that they break the line-height of the text. I had to make the choice for this plugin to either keep the text the right size (and thus the emoticon a little larger than line-height), or make the actual text smaller so that the emoticon is exactly line-height. I chose the former, but upon further reflection, I'll probably change to the latter in the next release.
[1] http://farukat.es/journal/2010/08/469-pure-css-icons-make-madness-stop
EDIT: BTW, here is a direct link to the live demo: http://www.alfajango.com/blog/jquery-css-emoticons-plugin/jquery-css-e…
moomin · 2012-12-29
Yeah, it's all just a few bad apples, there's no underlying problem. Just like all the other women with appalling experiences of sexism in the tech community.
Seriously, if you can't see a fundamental problem, I seriously doubt you're looking very hard.
http://therealkatie.net/blog/2012/mar/21/lighten-up/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cerian-jenkins/the-tech-industry-is-one-…
http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/CouchDB_talk
http://bitquabit.com/post/seriously/
http://farukat.es/journal/2012/10/669-kathy-sierra-primer-sexism-discu…