Christian Heilmann

So London is hosting the Olympic Games

July 6th, 2005

Aspiring athletes can book a place to put their sleeping bag in my flat now. £250 a night, no breakfast included. At least that will mean we can use the Dome for something again, depending that it still stands then.

Inaccessible by brand?

July 6th, 2005

As a part of my job I am right now conducting an accessibility audit of one of our clients’ sites. My findings so far and the background and history of the project are a perfect example of how much of a gap is between accessibility best practice tutorials / articles and the real business world. […]

What web zines do you read?

July 4th, 2005

For an upccoming release , that should reach as many CSS fans as possible, I’d like your help and tell me which CSS, Web Standards or JavaScript related web zines you frequently read? Personally, mine are: Alistapart Digital-Web and Sitepoint Which ones would you add?

“Le Building” made my day

July 1st, 2005

I just got this wonderful link with an animated french (or belgian) movie called Le Building (13MB Quicktime Movie) . If you liked Belleville rendez-vous then this will be your cup of tea. Black humour with a bit of (unerotic) nudity wrapped up in a ink-on-watercolour style. However, if you thought it is painted, you […]

ISO HTML

June 27th, 2005

Over at the webaim forum, James Pickering has brought up the topic of ISO HTML once again. Check his post for the differences between HTML and ISO-HTML. It is an intriguing concept, as ISO is a standard every business owner understands, rather than a W3C guideline. However, the strictness of it will be its downfall. […]

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