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The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 395 posts.

2014
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Standard Markdown Is Now Common Markdown

Let me open with an apology to John Gruber for my previous blog post. We’ve been working on the Standard Markdown project for about two years now. We invited John Gruber, the original creator of Markdown, to join the project via email in November 2012, but never heard back.

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Guide to Landing Page Optimization

If you've ever been bored while reading a blog post, your life just got better. If you've ever wanted to learn about conversion rate optimization, and how to design high-converting landing pages, without falling asleep, you're in the right place. Buckle up, and prepare to be entertained in your…

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CSS is unnecessary given a layout language

CSS, a language for specifying visual appearance on the web, is … so complex that it has never been implemented correctly; yet, successive versions specify even more complexity. At the same time, it is so underpowered that many elementary graphic designs are impossible or prohibitively difficult, and…

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Firefox 28 Release Notes

Thanks to our contributors linkCheck out "What’s New" and "Known Issues" for this version of Firefox below. As always, you’re encouraged to tell us what you think , or file a bug in Bugzilla .

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No more JavaScript frameworks

Stop writing Javascript frameworks. Translations: Chinese Japanese Russian Here's the talk, based on this essay, that I gave at OSCON 2015. [Slides] The 100-line templating library presented as a Gist has been cleaned up, documented, and published as the Stamp library. JavaScript frameworks seem like death and taxes…

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Update on Metro

Earlier this week, I asked our engineering leads and release managers to take the Windows Metro version of Firefox off the trains. The team is solid and did good work, ...