Christian Heilmann

A few HTML5 questions that need answering

February 14th, 2011

I just released the notes of my “Using HTML5 sensibly” talk over on the Mozilla hacks blog and there are a few questions that need answering by anyone who wants to be part of publishing on the web in the future: Can innovation be based on “people never did this correctly anyways”?Is it HTML or […]

Google’s playing with balls again – pretty but still no HTML5

February 7th, 2011

As just announced – the Google IO conference registration is open and they have created a very cool countdown animation: In the blog post they describe the cool countdown as HTML5: If you liked our HTML5 countdown, stay tuned for more surprises. We’ll keep you posted on the latest developments for Google I/O 2011 at […]

Finally – a fold for the web (your clients can rest easy)

February 3rd, 2011

For years our clients have been confused about the elusive fold on the web. We all * know * that content should be above it but designers always squirm when we ask them about it. Time to make it easy for designers to show their clients where the fold is. For this, I wrote a […]

FUD again – Flash vs. HTML(5) – yes, open things are easy to retrieve

January 26th, 2011

I am very disappointed with a post released today by Serge Jespers, Adobe Evangelist entitled Stealing content was never easier than with HTML5. I am mostly disappointed by the headline which I hope is there for link-baiting and Google juice. In other words, really cheap and lame propaganda. The post has a good intention: there […]

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