Christian Heilmann

Easing the transition from IE6 to using newer browsers…

April 2nd, 2009

Here’s an idea to help those people in your office move away from IE6 to realmore modern browsers. Install FireFox or Opera on their machine Remove the Internet Explorer icon Replace the Opera or Firefox icon with the appropriate following ones Tell them when there’s any confusion that “Microsoft updated their browser, it looks different […]

TTMMHTM:Macs, IE6, hacker spaces, pixar vs. dreamworks and travel nightmares

April 2nd, 2009

Things that made me happy this morning: Let’s start with filthy anti-propagandaa cool comic about macs: IE6 gets more bashings with code to crash ie and a lovely IE6 voodoo doll. I don’t approve of using the crash code, but it shows how messed up the rendering engine really is! In the future we will […]

New API limit policy for Yahoo made easier with the rate limit calculator

April 1st, 2009

Today the rate limitations of Yahoo APIs has been made much easier The access allowance to the APIs is determined by your IP. Say you have the IP of 10.37.129.255 then you calculate your access like this: Take the IP and remove all the dots, so 10.37.129.255 becomes 1037129255. Divide the result by 2009 Divide […]

Accessible web applications – my part of the panel at the European Accessibility Forum

March 30th, 2009

Last week I’ve been to Frankfurt to take part in the “European Accessibility Forum” in Frankfurt. I was one of the members of a panel discussing accessible web applications. Here are the slides which also have audio: [slideshare id=1208652&doc=1208652] There’s also a video of the panel available, here’s my part: Christian Heilmann: Accessible Web Applications […]

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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!
197: Dunning-Kruger steroids, state of cloud security, puppies>beer

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