Useragentman
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Useragentman is a front-end developer's blog on cross-browser CSS, JavaScript, HTML5, and accessibility techniques.
What HN saysHN commenters link its article with an implementation for detecting font smoothing in JavaScript, and cite it on web accessibility.
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Most-shared posts
- 1How to Detect Font-Smoothing Using JavaScript2 people · 2 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 2Cross Browser HTML5 Progress Bars In Depth1 people · 49 points · first shared 2012 · 1 comments on HN
- 3A Developer I Admire — Walter Zorn1 people · 49 points · first shared 2012 · 4 comments on HN
- 4Cross Browser GPU Acceleration and requestAnimationFrame in Depth1 people · 8 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 5Cross Browser CSS Transforms, even in IE - using JS1 people · 3 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 6CSS Cross Browser Transforms — even in IE1 people · 3 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 7Fixing Typography Inside of 2-D CSS Transforms1 people · 3 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 8The CSS3 Matrix() Transform for the Mathematically Challenged1 people · 2 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 9Creating Cross Browser HTML5 Forms Now1 people · 2 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 10Better Web Typography With font-weight, Autohinting and font-feature-settings1 people · 2 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 11Cross-Browser SVG Text-Paths Without JavaScript — Even In Older IE.1 people · 2 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 12Pixel-perfect CSS3 border-image in depth1 people · 2 points · first shared 2011 · 1 comments on HN
- 13Shell script to convert font-face fonts on any OS1 people · 1 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 14Cross Browser HTML5 Ruby Annotations Using CSS (2010)1 people · 1 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 15Coding Colors Easily Using CSS3 hsl() Notation1 people · 1 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
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ehsanu1 · 2012-09-09
This article explains and provides an implementation to do that: http://www.useragentman.com/blog/2009/11/29/how-to-detect-font-smoothi…
patagnome · 2024-09-15
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-keep-disabl… 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/cached-js-misconceptions/)?
4. is it encouraging [smaller](https://dyf-tfh.github.io/)?
5. is it promoting historical [insights](https://qntm.org/clean)?
6. is it popping [bubbles](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7YAXUWG820)?
7. is it encouraging the correct interpretations of actual [innovators](https://mamund.site44.com/articles/objects-v-messages/index.html)?
8. is it minimizing or eliminating [traps](https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html)? (also see the W3C's Web Sustainability Guideline's on javascript fallbacks)
9. is it avoiding the "[wars](https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/framework-wars-now-all-restauran…
10. is it shedding the object-form? https://dreamsongs.com/ObjectsHaveFailedNarrative.html