Christian Heilmann

How to stop event delegation(obvious fact #12132)

June 9th, 2008

This was a question I got in the office today and there is no shame in asking it: I am using Event Delegation on one of my products and I need to stop the main handler on the body from firing when I click a certain button. How do I do that? The answer is […]

Yay for Jacob Seidelin to join me in accessihacking YouTube

June 6th, 2008

Jacob Seidelin took his JavaScript kung-foo skills off Super Mario for a short while and wrote a proof of concept how to get the annotations out of a YouTube video to display it outside the movie. I’ve blogged about this idea here and his solution is an example to use timeout to poll for annotations […]

280North bring Keynote to the web

June 5th, 2008

I’ve first seen a preview of this at the first JavaScript developer meetup in San Francisco earlier this year, but now the 280 North guys have released their very Keynote-esque presentation editor for the web. Have a play with it and especially check the key-commands and drag and drop support. The shape designer is also […]

YouTube now with annotations – can we get those as an API please (captioning)?

June 4th, 2008

YouTube just released a new feature for video content generators: annotations. As you can see in this example video of someone jumping out of an aircraft the annotations show up whereever you want to put them on the screen and are time-based. You can even add links and hotspots to other videos and search results […]

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