July 10th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in open standards, web
I’m convinced that open webtechnologies are suited for more than just web page development. I don’t see why you can’t write desktop applications using open webtechnologies. So, I’m also pretty optimistic about what Google is trying to do with Chrome OS.
Many of the problems people currently see with Chrome OS are in my opinion [...]
May 30th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in open standards, web
I’ve just been watching the google wave presentation. Pretty amazing application, it’ll probably scare the hell out of a number of communication software providers. But what’s even more amazing is that it’s almost entirely build using HTML 5. Just one feature needs the Google Gears plugin: drag and drop of desktop resources to the web-page. [...]
February 24th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in web
Think you need flash to create a good looking scalable interactive chart on your webpage? Think again. Raphaël is a small javascript library that can be used to generate svg graphics, embedded in your html page. Here’s an example chart: Analytics. Pretty nice. The homepage has a number of impressive svg demos. Code examples can [...]
February 4th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in web
Just a simple tip, if you’re just starting out with css. I see a lot of html developers adding ids or class names on every html tag they want to target in their stylesheet. This is really not necessary. You can combine tags in your css rules.
Simple example: suppose you want to style your input [...]