Christian Heilmann

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Spring is here!

Thursday, March 17th, 2005

And I am happy. Also, I won the Pink Panther DVD collection on ebay and it just arrived. Movies tonight!

Fixing JavaScript memory leaks

Wednesday, March 16th, 2005

Keith Gaugan has come up with a nice script that prevents event handling in JavaScript from causing memory leaks. I’ll give it a spin soon, so far it looks like a good idea to implement.

Nielsen speaks out about lower literacy

Tuesday, March 15th, 2005

Jakob Nielsen much loved/hated usability expert speaks in his latest alertbox about low-literacy users and what we have to think about when trying to accommodate our content for them. Much more interesting read than the 1314th tutorial on why skip links are a great idea.

The Joy of feedback

Tuesday, March 15th, 2005
I just got another nice contact via the YADM homepage stating:
asdf(asdf@asdf.asdf) wrote
Your relative drop down doesn't work in NS6
Cheers. (Why do I bother?)

And another 2 hour job done

Tuesday, March 15th, 2005

Yesterday morning I got a logo in AI format, and three hours later the content for the Investors in Cricket web site in Word format. I love to be able to re-use HTML templates I’ve created exactly for these kind of emergencies.