Christian Heilmann

Oddly executed accessibility – hide the widget

June 17th, 2005

I just stumbled upon yet another web site widget that should enhance the accessibility and usability of the site, by offering different site widths and font sizes: My question now is who that really helps? A visitor with bad eyesight is not likely to be able to decypher what these icons mean. They do have […]

Three separated layers of web development? Think again.

June 16th, 2005

The three levels of web development – structure, presentation and behaviour – are not enough to ensure a standards compliant, accessible product. Being a human interaction issue, accessibility goes further. This proposal talks about two more levels and their dependencies.

USB Earrings – A usability nightmare

June 15th, 2005

Shifting my localhost to my cool new 1GB USB stick, I also discovered that the same company does jewellery with USB sticks. While my keyring one is still easy to use I really don’t see how you can work with either your neck or your ear connected to the USB outlet. :-)

Browser bug lists

June 15th, 2005

I have to give our test team some resources to spot different browser bugs. The client is one of those classic cases considering a web site only good when it looks the same on every outdated UA out there, and of course the main stakeholder uses IE5.0 on Windows NT. The question is now, are […]

CSS factory (@media call for participation)

June 12th, 2005

I bounced the following idea off some people at @media (Douglas Bowman, Molly and a lot of others) and I am ready to go along with it. It’d be good to hear some thoughts though: We all know and love CSSZengarden. It showed the design community what can be achieved with CSS and how easy […]

Newsletter

Check out the Dev Digest Newsletter I write every week for WeAreDevelopers.

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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