Christian Heilmann

Great Tech History: The digital examiner – electronic newspaper from 1981

January 27th, 2014

Imagine, if you will, sitting down to your morning coffee, turning on your home computer to read today’s newspaper. This amazing news item from 1981 talks about an experiment of the San Francisco Examiner and other newspapers trying to offer their content in a digital format using a mainframe computer and a telephone connection: Wired […]

Endangered species of the web: the image

January 23rd, 2014

Once the Web was a thriving ecosystem of happily evolving, beautiful creatures. Like with any environment, sooner or later man will step in and kill a lot of things – actively or by accident – and diminish the diversity and health of said ecosystem. In this series we will look at some of the strange […]

Fixing a webkit-only effect using Sublime Text

January 22nd, 2014

Afra Noubarzadeh just blew me away with his painting using Style Sheets, completely created in Chrome Devtools. It looks like this (scaled to size): Afra also recorded a video of him creating it: Then, of course, he also made me a sad, as the painting uses –webkit– only CSS prefixes. So I decided to wield […]

Myth busting mythbusted

January 13th, 2014

Today CSS tricks features an article on JavaScript animations vs. CSS animations entitled Myth Busting: CSS Animations vs. JavaScript guest-written by Jack Doyle, one of the people behind the Greensock animation platform. Not surprisingly, Jack debunks the blanket statement that CSS animations are always better for performance and functionality than JavaScript animations. Mythbusters parody by […]

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