Lately I got into watching TED movies in the gym (free video podcast, 20 minutes, perfect length for a crosstrainer session). Today I checked out Salman Khan’s introduction to the Khan academy and its beginnings: All in all a great talk and I am a big fan of the Khan academy as a way to […]

I am right now writing a post on how to use :target selectors for image galleries. As always, older IE are the fly in the ointment there as only IE9 supports the selector. So I thought about a way to serve the CSS only to the browsers in the know. The options were of course […]

Whenever there is an open forum to discuss HTML5, you get very interesting questions. Sometimes you also get ones you just facepalm to. One of them was yesterday on Facebook where someone wanted a “simple web in HTML5”. As I was bored watching “revenge of the sith” I thought I give it a go. So […]

I am always amazed about the lack of support for progressive enhancement on the web. Whenever you mention it, you face a lot of “yeah, but…” and you feel having to defend something that should be ingrained in the DNA of anyone who works on the web. When explaining progressive enhancement in the past Aaron […]

Yesterday I attended the jQuery UK conference in Oxford, England where about 300 developers gathered to hear the newest and coolest about probably the most successful JavaScript library out there. Naturally I thought it a good idea to give a talk that they shouldn’t use it. Well, more to the point that it is not […]