Christian Heilmann

DOMnews, well, news: Coincidence or Plagiarism?

March 6th, 2006

I just got informed via email that The XHTML compliant scroller at ibloomstudios looks spookily like a slightly edited version of my own DOMnews script . I don’t want to point fingers and Nick claims in the comments that he did the script himself. Am I paranoid? DOMNews source XHTML compliant scroller source (hope it […]

AJAX/DHTML library scorecard

March 6th, 2006

Just when I thought I am going research crazy I stumbled upon the AJAX/DHTML library scorecard at musingsfrommars.org. The article reviews a lot and I mean a lot of DHTML/AJAX/JS libraries and categorises them into grades how cross-browser they are. If you want to pick a library to use instead of rolling your own solutions […]

Evolt.org wants you to give it a lick of paint

March 6th, 2006

Evolt.org, has announced a redesign contest. Quoting Martin Burns: Hi folks Ever looked at the evolt site and thought “I could do better than that”? Ever thought “All very nice, but it’s a bit 1999”? Ever thought “It’s not using half the potential that Drupal (plus modules) gives it”? Ever thought “Wish we could be […]

Mapsurface.com and me are watching you!

March 5th, 2006

Glenn Jones of Mapsurface.com just sent me my login details for this cool tracking tool. Try it now by pressing ALT+X on your keyboard (seems not to work in Opera though). What I love about it: The slick interface The validity – it stays in the head of the document as two includes and doesn’t […]

Linking both text and icons with rollover state

March 2nd, 2006

Following a comment I put on the amazing redesign of Veerle’s Blog, she answered that she needed to use two links – one for a text and one for an icon to make the icon clickable. It can be done in one link in various ways (embedding an image for example) ,but the coolest seems […]

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