Christian Heilmann

So target really is deprecated, huh?

February 14th, 2006

Yes I know, both Molly and Derek have reported on it already, but after pointing out in my 10 reasons why clients don’t care about accessibility article that one reason is that nobody has been sued properly yet, it seems we are one step in that direction. Target is being sued for inaccessibility. From the […]

Large clickable boxes as navigation with CSS and DOM

February 13th, 2006

A client asked for a proof of concept how you could create large clickable boxes as a navigation. They wanted the whole box clickable, and if the link is a section link with child elements they wanted an indicator that there is more. The links without children should simply send the user to the site, […]

PureDOMExplorer update – what is Safari’s issue with Off-Left?

February 13th, 2006

I just decided to celebrate the sale of a commercial license for my tree menu script pureDOMexplorer by creating a new version, which fulfils the change requests I had in the past. The new version of pde now turns a nested list with the class “pde” into a tree menu – which means you can […]

Now this is a cool touchscreen

February 12th, 2006

Jeff Han is doing some research on Bi-manual, multi-point, and multi-user interactions on a graphical interaction surface and watching the 17MB demo reel got me hooked on the idea. The accessibility of it of course is not mentionable, but how cool would it be to sort your digital pictures by dragging them with your finger […]

Don’t rely on maxlength to shorten passwords

February 6th, 2006

It is bad practice to rely on the maxlength attribute of form fields to ensure the real length of entered data. That much I knew, as playing with curl made me aware how vulnerable forms are on the wild wild web. However, I was a bit agog when I realised that it is possible to […]

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160: Graphs and RAGs explained and VS Code extension hacks Graphs and RAG explained, how AI is reshaping UI and work, how to efficiently use Cursor, VS Code extensions security issues.
159: AI pipelines, 10x faster TypeScript, How to interview How to use LLMs to help you write code and how much electricity does that use? Is your API secure? 10x faster TypeScript thanks to Go!
158: 🕹️ Super Mario AI 🔑 API keys in LLMs 🤙🏾 Vibe Coding Why is AI playing Super Mario? How is hallucinating the least of our worries and what are rules for developing Safety Critical Code?
157: CUDA in Python, Gemini Code Assist and back-dooring LLMs We met with a CUDA expert from NVIDIA about the future of hardware, we look at how AI fails and how to play pong on 140 browser tabs.
156: Enterprise dead, all about Bluesky and React moves on! Learn about Bluesky as a platform, how to build a React App and how to speed up SQL. And play an impossible game in the browser.

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