Crisp's blog

There's been a lot of talk about the new Microsoft browser ballot screen lately. I for one would like to say that I think this solution is a very good thing. I really commend Microsoft for having come up with this solution. It seems that this solution however is not very well understood by some people who just think it is annoying and 'blame' the European Commission for 'butting in' on the free market.

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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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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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Some more IE-weirdness.

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Last week I was taking a nice hot bath while reading the Regular Expression Cookbook by Jan Goyvaerts and Steven Levithan. Really, there is no better way of relaxing But then chapter 7.17 made me jump out of the tub, rush to my computer, and - while still wet - start typing the regular expression printed on page 387. The chapter was called 'Matching IPv6 Addresses'.

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