Hello stranger! This is the personal website of Manuel Strehl a.k.a Boldewyn. I write mostly about web development and topics loosely coupled to it, but there are also posts completely unrelated to this.
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Sometimes there are these Photoshop designs, that make web developers cry. The one on the right is one of those. At first sight there is nothing wrong with it. But when you take into account, that the…
The other minute I’ve read an interesting article on the new HTML5 reversed attribute on ordered lists, that, who would have thought, reverses the counting. The article proposed a JavaScript polyfill.…
Numbers are a dangerous toy to play with, but they are still interesting to examine. Without any kind of valuation and just for the purpose of information I’d like to present some numbers of people working on current web technology.
Tantek Çelik published in 2009 a draft of a new calendar with 5-day-weeks solving issues with the Gregorian one: http://tantek.pbworks.com/w/page/19402947/NewCalendar. I am not convinced, that this is…
The Mozilla developers have received some critics for their decision to remove the version number from future Firefox releases. Many other open source projects, like GIMP, are speeding up their release…