Christian Heilmann

IE8 – Would somebody please think of the childrenthe broken web?

January 24th, 2008

Ok, as several people wondered (in tweets and emails) what my stance on the whole IE8 malarkey is, first of all an explanation why I didn’t bother to blog about it yet: I was busy with more immediate concerns about my professional future Far too many people already blog about it, speculating this or that […]

What does adding empty links to a document do in terms of accessiblity?

January 24th, 2008

Over at the YUI blog, I managed to convince accessibility researcher and all-out good colleague Mike Davies to publish a research on how empty links in the document affect accessibility. Why would you ever add empty links to a document? Well, it is part of a Microformat, in this case the include pattern. Over to […]

The Art and Science of JavaScript arrived

January 24th, 2008

My latest contribution to the ink-on-dead-tree media is a chapter for Sitepoint’s new book The Art and Science of JavaScript. I’ve been giving details about the history and the contents of the book in detail in a blog post on the Yahoo Developer Blog and while it has been out for a while I just […]

Will not link for pocket money

January 18th, 2008

It seems that there is a rather annoying group of people sending random emails about text link advertising to bloggers. I’ve got some, and Ed Eliot sitting next to me got the same. This wouldn’t be an issue, after all I think I should get some reward for keeping this up for years and fending […]

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