Christian Heilmann

Now vendor prefixes have become a problem, want to help fix it?

February 9th, 2012

Today is a noisy day in the land of web development and the reason is a meeting of the W3C CSS working group where several people representing browsers discussed and agreed on supporting webkit prefixes in other browsers in order to “not break the web”. Read the notes of the meeting and search for vendor-prefix […]

Superbowl, celebrities, our arrogance and the moneymaking web

February 3rd, 2012

Here’s a prediction: this weekend, Twitter will go down. I have a lot of friends in Twitter and I am very much trusting their abilities (which I know to be awesome) but there will be a fail whale. I am so convinced about this that if there is no outage and next time I am […]

Web enabled video at news:rewired

February 2nd, 2012

Tomorrow I will be at Microsoft London to make IE10 support classList speak at news:rewired – media in motion on the topic of open web video and what you can do with it. For this, I got 10 minutes and then answer questions (or ask them) in a panel. Update: The audio is now available […]

Helper functions: Resize images to a variable thumbnail size

February 1st, 2012

As part of the “Creating thumbnails with drag and drop and HTML5 canvas” post on MDN today, I spent some time creating a short and working resizing function that takes an arbitrary image and re-sizes it to fit into a thumbnail of a certain width and height. After a few failed attempts I googled around […]

TTMMHTM – HTML5 Synth, women in tech, the return of JS, remote tilt, and deploying kittens

January 31st, 2012

Things that made me happy this morning: Morning Star is a monophonic bassline synthesizer controlled by a step sequencer, designed to run on Web browsers and made entirely with HTML5 and JavascriptGirls in a Tech World is a promotional video about women in tech – interviews with engineersVanilla JavaScript FTW is a side-by-side solution comparison […]

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Word is Doomed, Flawed LLM benchmarks, hard sorting and CSS mistakes Spot LLM benchmark flaws, learn why sorting is hard, how to run Doom in Word and how to say "no" like a manager.
30 years of JS, Browser AI, how attackers use GenAI, whistling code Learn how to use AI in your browser and not on the cloud, why AI makes different mistakes than humans and go and whistle up some code!
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