Christian Heilmann

European Member of Parliament sees not much improvement in accessibility

October 31st, 2005

Just got this as part of the e-government bulletin. Just another example as to how web accessibility has bigger issues than non-encoded ampersands. European Accessibility Shortcomings ‘Shameful’, Says MEP Richard Howitt MEP has said it is “shameful” that EU institutions have still not themselves widely embraced global web accessibility guidelines, despite urging their adoption on […]

How superfluous commenting can bite you

October 29th, 2005

i just had a fun bug to kill: A client complained that their site is not working. The code is theirs, all we did was update some flash movies. What didn’t work, was a popup window showing the flash movie. Now, the code was Dreamweaver generated and the out-of-the-box functions have their version as comments […]

Ask me things on the World Usability Day webcast

October 25th, 2005

Following the 10 Reasons why clients don’t care about accessibility article on Digital Web I was asked to participate in the World Usability Day webcast about web accessibility. So if you have a question to ask about the matter at hand – how to sell accessibility in the large business world – please feel free […]

Neat little colourblindness simulator for OSX

October 24th, 2005

Just got an URL from a friend that is too good to be kept just in my private stash: Sim Daltonism is a real-time colourblindness simulation app for Mac OsX. You can select what type of colourblindness you’ll like to simulate and a small window shows the area around the mousepointer with this filter enabled. […]

Flavour of the month: Generic CSS frameworks for all!

October 21st, 2005

It is amazing how the same idea seems to grip multiple developers at the same time. While the heydays of yet another image replacement technique seems to be over, flexible multicolumn CSS frameworks are the new sliced bread. Thierry of TJK Design shows his One clean HTML markup, many layouts, Mike Stenhouse offers a CSS […]

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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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