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Author: Christian Heilmann

An international Developer Evangelist working for Mozilla in the lovely town of London, England.

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Burning Excessive CodeThe Vanilla Web Diet

November 13th, 2012
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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 we build websites to ensure they are leaner and more future-proof. At the end of ...

Opinion ColumnIt’s Not All Doom And Gloom On The Web

September 21st, 2012
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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 talk I’ve presented at the Smashing Conference a couple of ...

Back To BasicsJavaScript Events And Responding To The User

August 17th, 2012
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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 functionality from events is a powerful idea, which is why Node.js became such a hot topic. Today, let’s get back ...

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

December 27th, 2011
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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 predict the comment reactions it caused. It also frustrated me as it was a classic ...

A Quick Look Into The Math Of Animations With JavaScript

October 4th, 2011
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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 every iteration (dividing numbers by hand, differentials, etc.). It was exactly the reason why ...

Making Your Mark On The Web Is Easier Than You Think

July 2nd, 2010
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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, companies like Google, Yahoo, Skype, Facebook and Twitter managed to get the geeky Web ...

Progressive Enhancement And Standards Do Not Limit Web Design

April 7th, 2010
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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, beautiful Web. There are also claims that these tools limit us from pushing the boundaries of what ...