Speaking at the HTML5 Game Jam

By crisp on Sunday 19 September 2010 01:07 - Comments (13)
Category: Webdevelopment, Views: 4.197

Next month SPIL Games and Google will be running an HTML5 Game Jam event simultaneously in San Fransisco USA and Hilversum (my hometown) in the Netherlands. The event in Hilversum will be an all-weekend dev-a-thon where around 80 developers will be sharing experiences with new web technology and creating games using that technology.

Last week Google contacted me if I would be interested in delivering the keynote speech for this event in Hilversum.

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Are you watching the banners? At least the banners are watching you!

By crisp on Thursday 02 September 2010 01:05 - Comments (19)
Categories: Internet, Tweakers.net, Views: 4.026

When was the last time you looked at a banner? Provided you don't already use a banner blocker, and I don't mean just noticed that there was a banner (some flashing moving thing on top of the page or on the side, or maybe even covering the content you were just about to start reading and making you race for the close button), but really looked at it? Maybe even clicked it? And if you did, do you look at banners all the time? Well, don't worry if you don't; at least banners know when you are not looking, and they're telling it to the advertisers.

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The internet anno 2010: all about the money?

By crisp on Sunday 20 June 2010 02:44 - Comments (25)
Category: Internet, Views: 5.863

Sometimes when I look back at my internet career I get a feeling of dismay, and it's not only about my career itself but also about the internet as a whole. What started out as an exciting new technology with endless possibilities now only seems to revolve around advertisements and SEO in order to attract as many visitors as possible in order to maximize the income on said former advertisements.

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DHTML Lemmings primer

By crisp on Sunday 30 May 2010 01:39 - Comments (10)
Categories: Javascript, Webdevelopment, Views: 14.080

It's been 7 years since I wrote DHTML Lemmings™. In internet-terms that's a lifetime; back in those days Firefox didn't exist yet (Mozilla Phoenix was on version 0.8 or something and IE6 was the dominant browser), we didn't have HTML5 or javascript libraries and web standards was just a grass roots movement. It was hard to make dynamic cross-browser things back then, yet I managed to create something that still works in browsers today.

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Heads or Tails?

By crisp on Monday 17 May 2010 01:49 - Comments (14)
Categories: Browsers, Javascript, Webdevelopment, Views: 6.463

Clientside Performance Guru Steve Souders recently created a test to see if browsers implicitly create a <head>-element for all HTML documents. I pointed out in the comments that there might be more in play than just the fact that some browsers don't follow the specifications (notably mobile browsers) to the letter with regards to DOM-tree building.

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