2012-05-07T16:05:03Z Manuel Strehl http://www.manuel-strehl.de/ http://www.manuel-strehl.de/dev/learning_html.en.html 2012-03-08T19:12:42+01:00

In January 2011 a user at StackOverflow asked, if he should start learning HTML5 / CSS 3 or begin with the older versions. In quite a length I answered the question by explaining my way to web development over the years. I think, that the answer might serve others well, too, who seek a way to start with web development. Since the original question was just recently closed as “not constructive”, I’m putting the answer here for others to read.

http://www.manuel-strehl.de/tips_and_tricks/responsive_buttons.en.html 2012-01-22T22:09:19+01:00

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…

http://www.manuel-strehl.de/dev/reverse_ordered_lists_with_CSS.en.html 2011-12-06T22:21:18+01:00

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.…

http://www.manuel-strehl.de/dev/some_random_numbers.en.html 2011-11-03T21:10:35+01:00

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.

http://www.manuel-strehl.de/var/new_calendar.en.html 2011-08-21T22:01:22+02:00

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…

http://www.manuel-strehl.de/var/rolling_releases.en.html 2011-08-16T19:30:04+02:00

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…

http://www.manuel-strehl.de/tips_and_tricks/firefox_menu_button.en.html 2011-07-31T15:59:00+02:00

Have you seen this new orange button in the top left corner of the new Firefox? No? This article describes how to get it.

http://www.manuel-strehl.de/about/attribution.en.html 2011-07-04T21:13:26+02:00

The question came up quite regularly in the past, what would be an appropriate way to attribute me when using one of the CC-released works. Unfortunately the Creative Commons License itself proves to be…

http://www.manuel-strehl.de/var/about_ucotd.en.html 2011-07-02T11:45:31+02:00

In May I started a new Twitter account named @UnicodeCotD, Unicode Codepoint of the Day. It tweets every day another codepoint from the Unicode® standard. At first it was a try to do something on a regular…

http://www.manuel-strehl.de/var/motokai_for_chatzilla.en.html 2011-06-28T21:52:10+02:00

I’m a sucker for the monokai color scheme, especially in its Vim theme incarnation molokai. It is easy to imagine, how surprised I was, that this scheme wasn’t ported to a ChatZilla motif yet. After all…

http://www.manuel-strehl.de/var/back_from_the_docsprint.en.html 2011-06-22T12:16:42+02:00

The Mozilla Doc Sprint in Cincinnati was an extremely interesting event to be. This article sketches the deepest impressions I took home with me.

http://www.manuel-strehl.de/dev/on_replacing_checkboxes_with_CSS3.en.html 2011-06-13T12:24:09+02:00

There are several techniques to replace native checkboxes with images. This approach will need no extra markup, degrades gracefully and doesn’t harm a single image.

http://www.manuel-strehl.de/var/ranting_about_linux_on_desktop.en.html 2011-05-14T21:02:42+02:00

I am a long-time advocat of FOSS and the philosophy behind it. But from time to time I despair with this attitude. Currently, the “Linux on the Desktop” topic is most prominently making me think on what…

http://www.manuel-strehl.de/dev/using_php_as_it_was_meant_to.en.html 2011-05-11T17:12:23+01:00

PHP has been thrashed a lot over the last years. While many critics are doubtlessly true, it is still the most used server-side language to create the web we use today and it is an easy to learn language…

http://www.manuel-strehl.de/var/simple_icons.en.html 2011-05-09T20:48:15+02:00

For one of my recent projects I looked for simple icons, that are free to use. Well, to put it in a nutshell, I didn’t find, what I was looking for. So I fired up Inkscape and created a set that fits my…

http://www.manuel-strehl.de/dev/HTML5_reset_styles.en.html 2011-05-02T18:14:31+02:00

The HTML5 specification lists default CSS rules. The article describes how to revert these.

http://www.manuel-strehl.de/dev/markup_for_syntax_highlighting.en.html 2011-04-28T12:55:07+02:00

The article describes a way to mark up syntax highlighted source code with a simple pre element while retaining the advantages of other solutions.

http://www.manuel-strehl.de/tips_and_tricks/vim_and_win_revised.en.html 2011-04-13T21:33:25+02:00

This is an update on how to open files in Vim from Windows Explorer’s context menu.

http://www.manuel-strehl.de/dev/simple_epub_ebooks_with_python.en.html 2011-03-29T18:32:59+01:00

The EPUB standard is based on several other, well-established technologies. This makes it easy to generate simple ebooks in this format with the standard libraries of many modern languages. I’ll show here…

http://www.manuel-strehl.de/dev/a_minimal_proxy_with_php_and_sqlite.en.html 2011-03-08T20:56:27+01:00

Many web services allow access to their APIs via JSONP nowadays. This allows client-side JavaScript to access ressources via domain boundaries. However, for several reasons caching ressources locally (on…

http://www.manuel-strehl.de/dev/create_sprites_with_imagemagick.en.html 2011-01-24T20:56:45+01:00

After colorizing the SVG icons I needed to create images suitable for CSS sprites out of them. The first step is rasterizing the SVG files, as I described in the previous article. We now have a bundle…

http://www.manuel-strehl.de/dev/colorizing_icons_with_sed.en.html 2011-01-24T20:56:45+01:00

Creating colorized versions of a base icon usuallycalls for heavy Photoshop actions. Recently I created an SVG file with some simple black-and-white icons I wanted to use in an application. The file contains…

http://www.manuel-strehl.de/dev/website_thumbnails.en.html 2010-12-14T07:56:06+01:00

A thumbnail view of a website is meanwhile a common sight. Google has recently introduced it in its search results page, and numerous ad services offer more or less annoying tool tips with page previews.…

http://www.manuel-strehl.de/dev/digraphs_in_firefox.en.html 2010-12-09T16:57:58+01:00

What are Digraphs? I really became addicted to Vim’s digraph feature. It’s a simple but elegant way to input higher Unicode by entering combinations of ASCII characters. In insert mode, you press Ctrl-K…

http://www.manuel-strehl.de/about/sources.en.html 2010-11-12T14:56:26+01:00

Die Grafik „Promote JS” in der Seitenspalte stammt von PromoteJS.com und unterliegt den dort veröffentlichten Nutzungsbedingungen. Die Grafik, die im Fußbereich der Seiten mein Benutzerprofil bei StackExchange…

http://www.manuel-strehl.de/tips_and_tricks/vim_and_win.en.html 2010-11-12T07:59:38+01:00

When I switched from Notepad++ to Vim and MinTTY on my Windows XP machine at work, one thing I missed dearly was the context menu entry, that allows fast opening of files. Reading files from Thunderbird…

http://www.manuel-strehl.de/dev/kate_and_regexp.en.html 2010-11-04T12:23:42+01:00

One of the main reasons, why I finally landed at Vim as editor was the lack of decent regular expression support in all other editors I used so far (except, of course, Emacs). That includes especially…

http://www.manuel-strehl.de/about/license.en.html 2010-10-18T00:00:00

This page lists the relevant terms and conditions, if using software from this website.

http://www.manuel-strehl.de/about/imprint.en.html 2010-10-09T17:22:39+01:00

This personal site is presented by: Manuel Strehl E-Mail: WWW: www.manuel-strehl.de Phone: If parts of this text deviate from the German version, the later is the normative and valid version. Licencing…

http://www.manuel-strehl.de/about/contact.en.html.php 2010-10-09T17:22:39+01:00

Contact information and form about this site.

http://www.manuel-strehl.de/about/me.en.html 2010-09-21T20:44:14+01:00

I’m Manuel Strehl, a true and thorough Bavarian web developer. And why, yes, I also own a Lederhose. Apart from dancing around some poles and Schuhplattling (ok, admitted, I never did that), I enjoy coding…

http://www.manuel-strehl.de/publications/scientific_publishing.en.html 2010-08-31T14:30:00+01:00

In August 2010 I gave a talk at the SVG Open conference in Paris: “Scientific Publishing with XHTML, MathML and SVG.” The topic was to evaluate the current state of the art in using XHTML+MathML+SVG for…

http://www.manuel-strehl.de/ebooks/index.en.html 2010-08-21T00:56:04+01:00

The design of public domain books at Project Gutenberg or WikiSource is not optimal for reading. I introduce here some works available at these sites, that have been converted by me to HTML5 and CSS 3 with special regard to responsive Design.

http://www.manuel-strehl.de/dev/wireframes_with_svg.en.html 2009-07-07T00:00:00

The state of the art way to communicate between web designer and developer is via Photoshop. This article presents an alternative, SVG, that provides several advantages over the “traditional” way.

http://www.manuel-strehl.de/publications/maschinelle_uebersetzung.en.html 2009-05-08T00:00:00

Diese Seminararbeit im Bereich „Maschinelle Übersetzung“ zum Thema „Zeichenkodierungen und Dateiformate im Hinblick auf MÜ“ wurde im Rahmen eines Hauptseminars erstellt.

http://www.manuel-strehl.de/publications/benutzerschnittstellen.en.html 2008-03-31T00:00:00

Die Seminararbiet wurde von mir im Forschungsseminar Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion angefertigt. Sie beschreibt Methoden, die Softwareentwickler verwenden, um UIs besser an Bedürfnisse von Senioren und Kindern anzupassen.

http://www.manuel-strehl.de/publications/diploma_thesis.en.html 2007-07-26T00:00:00

This work describes the Diploma Thesis (eqv. Master’s Thesis) of Manuel Strehl.

http://www.manuel-strehl.de/publications/facharbeit.en.html 1999-02-01T00:00:00

Inhaltsverzeichnis Die Bedeutung des Wassers allgemein naturwissenschaftliche Sicht soziologische Aspekte artesische Brunnen Begriffsbestimmung Bedeutung der artesische Brunnen Harting Geschichte des Brunnens…