Copyright 1998-2012 Tweakers.net Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:15:42 GMT Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:15:42 GMT http://tweakers.net/reviews/76 Tweakblogs.net is the weblog service provided by Tweakers.net, the largest hardwaresite and techcommunity in the Netherlands. http://tweakblogs.net/ http://tweakimg.net/g/if/logo.gif 60 60 Tweakblogs.net en http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/cat/127 frontpage@tweakers.net http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/5426/do-you-have-javascript-disabled.html Every time you create a new hot DHTML AJAX Web2.0 HTML5 feature that at least involves a certain amount of javascript the same question arises: how do you build this feature with accessibility in mind? Is it a very important feature and should you cater to the lowest denominator and build using progressive enhancement, or can you use graceful degradation and/or supply a lower-level alternative, or is it just a gimmick and is it ok to ignore part of your audience? Read more »crisp 6 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/5426/do-you-have-javascript-disabled.html#reacties http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/5426 Wed, 27 Oct 2010 23:55:00 GMT http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/4860/are-you-watching-the-banners-at-least-the-banners-are-watching-you!.html 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. Read more »crisp 6 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/4860/are-you-watching-the-banners-at-least-the-banners-are-watching-you!.html#reacties http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/4860 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:05:00 GMT http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/4424/the-internet-anno-2010-all-about-the-money.html 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. Read more »crisp 1 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/4424/the-internet-anno-2010-all-about-the-money.html#reacties http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/4424 Sun, 20 Jun 2010 00:44:00 GMT http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/4090/the-real-reason-apple-and-microsoft-are-embracing-html5.html Just the other day Microsoft has chimed in with Apple in its fight against Adobe's Flash calling it 'proprietary' and 'not-open' and pushing forward 'HTML5' as the technology of the future. Both posts seem to focus on video on the web and it is striking that they both mention H.264 as the codec of choice, a codec that is neither free nor open and has little to do with HTML5 itself. Read more »crisp 8 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/4090/the-real-reason-apple-and-microsoft-are-embracing-html5.html#reacties http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/4090 Sun, 02 May 2010 23:43:00 GMT http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3049/ipv6-validation-more-caveats.html 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'. Read more »crisp 1 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3049/ipv6-validation-more-caveats.html#reacties http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3049 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:12:00 GMT http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/2031/ipv6-validation-(and-caveats).html Recently we got a request to also match IPv6 addresses as a host-part for our auto-links. Basically this seemed pretty straight-forward, but it proved that actually validating an IPv6 address is quite difficult. Read more »crisp 6 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/2031/ipv6-validation-(and-caveats).html#reacties http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/2031 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:23:00 GMT http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/1248/ie8s-standards-compatibility-promise.html Some time ago Microsoft made a 180 turn on their decision to make IE7 rendering mode the default for IE8. This seemed to be a commitment to standards compliance which gained them renewed trust from a lot of parties. But now that IE8's appearance is near, how do they keep up to that promise? Read more »crisp 8 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/1248/ie8s-standards-compatibility-promise.html#reacties http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/1248 Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:45:00 GMT http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/1190/adblock-sucks!.html Not only does it deprive legitimate businesses from their primary source of income, it also puts a burden on development teams because of the number of false bug reports when some user was blocking a little too much. Read more »crisp 1 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/1190/adblock-sucks!.html#reacties http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/1190 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:30:00 GMT http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/509/the-versioning-switchs-default-is-incorrect.html In fact, the whole versioning switch idea is bad to begin with. If you still don't understand why after my previous blog-entries and after having read for instance Jeremy Keith's reasoning on AListApart (and failed to see the flaws in Jeffrey Zeldman's entry) here's a break-down of the arguments against the versioning switch and against the proposed default (== IE7 mode): Read more »crisp 8 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/509/the-versioning-switchs-default-is-incorrect.html#reacties http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/509 Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:53:34 GMT http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/434/using-the-html5-doctype-prematurely-considered-harmful.html There has been a lot of fuss around Microsoft's ludicrous idea of freezing IE into IE7's quirksmode rendering for the (un)foreseeable future unless you specify some proprietary meta-tag in all your documents. There was however a tiny shimmer of good faith in this huge anti-competitive move when Chris Wilson, MSIE's productmanager, offered that this lock-in might not affect documents using some new doctype or mimetype that is currently unsupported by IE. By the way, the "considered harmful" in the title is intentional even though it has been abused as a populistic phrase throughout the years: it seems fitting since no one less than Eric Meyer once wrote an essay on the subject of why "considered harmful" can be considered harmful by itself Read more »crisp 8 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/434/using-the-html5-doctype-prematurely-considered-harmful.html#reacties http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/434 Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:13:38 GMT http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/204/banners-en-browsing-performance-impact.html Het zal niemand verbazen dat reclame op websites (banners) een negatieve impact hebben op de 'browsing performance': je moet immers meer data ophalen en dat moet ook nog eens allemaal gerendered en getoond worden door je browser. Lees verder »crisp 6 http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/204/banners-en-browsing-performance-impact.html#reacties http://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/204 Sun, 16 Dec 2007 23:06:00 GMT