Rodney Rehm Rod is a web developer based in southern Germany. Having been a freelancer for a decade, he’s now working on Qivicon, Deutsche Telekom’s Smart Home platform. Before focusing himself on all things in the browser, he mostly did PHP and was quite decent with databases and distributed systems for scalability and redundancy. Created URI.js, worked on Smarty.
I’ve been a web developer for 15 years, but I’d never looked into accessibility. I didn’t know enough people with (serious) disabilities to properly understand the need for accessible applications and no customer has ever required me to know what ARIA is. But I got involved with accessibility anyway – and that’s the story I’d like to share with you today.
At the Fronteers Conference in... Read More
This article is packed with a number of quirks and issues you should be aware of when working with CSS3 transitions. Please note that I’m not showing any workarounds or giving advice on how to circumvent the issues discussed.
Alex MacCaw has already written a very insightful and thorough article on “All You Need to Know About CSS Transitions.” Whereas Alex wrote about achieving... Read More
At some point or another, you will find yourself writing JavaScript code that exceeds the couple of lines from a jQuery plugin. Your code will do a whole lot of things; it will (ideally) be used by many people who will approach your code differently. They have different needs, knowledge and expectations.
This article covers the most important things that you will need to consider before... Read More