Die IE6, die!

By crisp on Tuesday 09 February 2010 02:03 - Comments (12)
Categories: Browsers, Tweakers.net, Views: 1506

The Dutch nowadays are a conservative kind of people; they don't like to stick out their necks when it comes to radical changes. They much rather prefer to keep everything as it was. But when a greater power tells them to jump, the Dutch will gladly ask "how high?"

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Clientside performance no priority for Dutch websites

By crisp on Monday 04 January 2010 02:10 - Comments (26)
Categories: Tweakers.net, Webdevelopment, Views: 3078

As a senior developer at Tweakers.net and being specialized in frontend development I always take clientside performance very seriously. Even if your backend code is optimized to the bone, a slow rendering frontend can still spoil the whole experience for your visitors, and a bad first impression will make your visitors go elsewhere. A couple of recent articles on some other Dutch ICT-centered newssites made me wonder if they are taking clientside performance just as seriously.

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Adoptie - is het echt zo erg? nl

Door crisp op maandag 07 december 2009 02:17 - Reacties (8)
Categorie: Privé, Views: 2467

Iets wat insiders allang wisten, maar wat ik onlangs terugzag op de FOK! frontpage was dat stichting Meiling stopt met adopties uit India. Een besluit waar ik me in kan vinden gezien de moeilijkheden en de recente ophef hieromtrent. De reacties op dit nieuwsitem waren in my humble opinion echter tenenkrommend...

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Spam @ tweakblogs nl

Door crisp op zaterdag 21 november 2009 01:47 - Reacties (40)
Categorie: Tweakblogs, Views: 3532

De Tweakblogs lijken de laatste tijd steeds meer in het vizier te liggen van spammers. Van de week heb ik al meer dan 300 spamreacties op (veelal oudere) blogposts getrashed, en vandaag heb ik alweer 60 anonieme spamreacties kunnen trashen. Tijd voor actie dus!

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Having fun with IE part 5 - what item?

By crisp on Tuesday 17 November 2009 01:13 - Comments (3)
Categories: Browsers, Javascript, Views: 2200

Some more IE-weirdness.

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