Christian Heilmann

Per Pedes – Footnotes rear their head again

September 22nd, 2005

I don’t know why this comes up now (after being a craze in July), but both Jens Grochdreis and Roger Johannson published posts about footnotes today. While Roger’s post deals with Daring Fireball’s implementation, Jens points to an implementation at brandspankingnew. Joe Clark had a few well chosen words to say about footnotes and I […]

WYSIWYG CMS – The other user agent

September 20th, 2005

Content management systems with WYSIWYG editors have issues with some templates using CSS for layout – effectively forcing the designer to cater both for the CMS and the final browser. This post proposes the idea of an editor style sheet to overcome these problems.

News from the browser front

September 20th, 2005

It seems that Microsoft have realised that the debugging options in MSIE are just not adequate to developer needs. Following the success of the fabulous Firefox developer toolbar, Microsoft now released the beta of their Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar. And after the publicity stunt of a one day free Opera, the Norwegian company now offers […]

I have a Mac – Look at my Mini!

September 17th, 2005

I finally got around to buying me a Mac to test my stuff on and surf without the need of a bullet proof firewall and virus scanners slowing down the machine. As nobody was gratious enough to buy me one I got this older mini mac from a friend in Germany for £280 and added […]

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