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Christian Heilmann - I Contributed To An Open-Source Editor, And So Can You

A few months ago, Jason Grigsby’s post about autocompletion in forms made the rounds. I loved the idea of allowing users to fill in their credit card details by taking a picture of their card. What

Community , Open Source , coding

Christian Heilmann - The Vanilla Web Diet

Editor’s note: *This is an introductory article about a book idea to be published by Smashing Magazine with Chris Heilmann. Check out what we propose as an idea — explaining a way to reconsider how

performance , Tools , coding

Christian Heilmann - It’s Not All Doom And Gloom On The Web

In this article I’d like to discuss the changes happening on the Web and argue that its future is not as problematic and endangered as a lot of people make it out to be. The article is based on the

Community , Web Design , Discussions

Christian Heilmann - JavaScript Events And Responding To The User

Whenever people ask me about the most powerful things in JavaScript and the DOM, I quickly arrive at events. The reason is that events in browsers are incredibly useful. Furthermore, decoupling func

Programming , coding , Css , Javascript

Christian Heilmann - Teach Them How To Hit The Ground Running And Faceplant At The Same Time?

A few days ago, a tutorial on how to Create A Christmas Wish List With PHP was published on Smashing Magazine’s Coding section that frustrated me. It frustrated me as it was incredibly easy to predi

Community , Tutorials , coding , Opinion Column

Christian Heilmann - A Quick Look Into The Math Of Animations With JavaScript

In school, I hated math. It was a dire, dry and boring thing with stuffy old books and very theoretical problems. Even worse, a lot of the tasks were repetitive, with a simple logical change in ever

animation , Techniques , coding , Css , Javascript

Christian Heilmann - Syncing Content With HTML5 Video

One of the main changes from HTML4 to HTML5 is that the new specification breaks a few of the boundaries that browsers have been confined to. Instead of restricting user interaction to text, links,

Videos , Techniques , coding , HTML , html5

Christian Heilmann - Creating And Distributing Presentations On The Web

What I will talk about is how I (and you, of course) can use the Web to find content for your talks, record them, share them with others and save them for future audiences. I’ll also explain how to

workflow , Techniques , coding

Christian Heilmann - YQL: Using Web Content For Non-Programmers

Delivering great presentations is an art, and preparing the slides for them very much so, too. But we’re not going to talk about that. We’re also not going to get into the debate about whether to us

Content , coding , SQL

Christian Heilmann - Local Storage And How To Use It On Websites

Storing information locally on a user’s computer is a powerful strategy for a developer who is creating something for the Web. In this article, we’ll look at how easy it is to store information on a

coding , HTML , html5

Christian Heilmann - Making Your Mark On The Web Is Easier Than You Think

We who work on the Web live in wonderful times. In the past, we did of lot of trial-and-error learning, and the biggest hurdle was getting people to understand what we were on about. Over time, comp

Community , Conferences , Opinion Column , Design

Christian Heilmann - 7 JavaScript Things I Wish I Knew Much Earlier In My Career

I’ve been writing JavaScript code for much longer than I care to remember. I am very excited about the language’s recent success; it’s good to be a part of that success story. I’ve written dozens of

Career , coding , Javascript

Christian Heilmann - PHP: What You Need To Know To Play With The Web

You won’t come out a professional PHP developer, but you’ll be well on your way to building a small page that uses Web services. You can find a lot of great PHP info on the Web, and most of the time

php , coding

Christian Heilmann - Progressive Enhancement And Standards Do Not Limit Web Design

Lately I have been getting bored and annoyed with people getting up in arms against Web standards and the ideas of progressive enhancement, claiming that they hold us back from creating a rich, beau

Process , Web Design , Discussions , Opinion Column , Design

Christian Heilmann - Entering The Wonderful World of Geo Location

Then I went to my first WhereCamp, an unconference dealing with geographical issues and how they relate to the world of Web development. Even my A-Levels in Astronomy did not help me there. I was ou

coding , html5

Christian Heilmann - The Seven Deadly Sins Of JavaScript Implementation

If you look at some of the code that has been released, though, we do seem to have taken a step backwards. In gaining easier access, we also became a bit sloppy with our code. Finding clearly struct

coding , Javascript

Christian Heilmann - Developing Sites With AJAX: Design Challenges and Common Issues

This is that moment, and I am here to tell you a few things about our friend in the Web 2.0 world: AJAX. We seem to have AJAX licked. The Web technology is ubiquitous, and libraries and frameworks

Techniques , Ajax , coding

Christian Heilmann - Find The Right JavaScript Solution With A 7-Step Test

As Web developers and designers, we are spoilt for choice right now. To build a complex Web application or even just spice up a website with some highly interactive interface element, we have hundre

testing , coding , Javascript

Christian Heilmann - Web Security: Are You Part Of The Problem?

Website security is an interesting topic and should be high on the radar of anyone who has a Web presence under their control. Ineffective Web security leads to all of the things that make us hate t

php , Security , coding , Javascript

Christian Heilmann - Are You Loosing Traffic By Poor Website Performance?

In your case, annoying a few users wouldn’t be much of a problem, but if millions of people are using your product, you’d better be snappy in delivering it. For years, Hollywood movies showed us how

performance , php , coding