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Placeholder – revived using state-of-the-art technology

At the beginning of July 2012 I wrote an article about a custom [placeholder] solution we integrated at XING. The idea was to have placeholders that should still be visible when focused (see “placeholder – Custom solution vs. native HTML5 feature”). As mentioned in that article, Chrome at one point natively handled what we implemented   Continue Reading…


Inspirational reads for developers

A new year. And here you get some good and interesting articles. Today: GIF, Remote browser control, Firefox OS, Favicon, User Input and more.


Inspirational reads for developers

The last time in 2012 I want to share some interesting articles. Today: jQuery, mod_pagespeed, Method Bound, UX, translate (performance), WebKit, Fastbook, browser prefixes, AngularJS, SEO, CSS animation


Inspirational reads for developers

The end of year approximates and still there are so many interesting articles. I wanna share some I collected over the past few weeks. Today: AngularJS, MVC, __proto__, Firefox OS and more…


JSConf EU 2012

My trip to Berlin was only brief but nonetheless a great success. On the sixth and seventh of October, 44 talks were held over 2 days and presented on 2 stages (the production hall and the “bubble”) in the “Alte Münze”. The bubble was a fun transparent room made of plastic which was filled with   Continue Reading…


Inspirational reads for developers

Articles I found on the web during the past days and weeks. Today: HTML5, MVC, Windows 8 & Internet Explorer 10, SASS, WebKit and more…


The war of semantics – that is no war

Website texts serve to provide information and we have various HTML elements available to give texts “more meaning”. That could of course be a paragraph, a header, a list, a blockquote tag, a link or – thanks to HTML5 – a navigation, a footer, an article or one of the other elements. From a machine   Continue Reading…


Fronteers 2012 recap

What we experienced at one of Europe’s biggest frontend conferences. The fifth annual Fronteers conference took place on October 4 and 5 in the Netherlands. The organizers chose Pathé Tuschinski as the venue, which is an old movie theater in Amsterdam that has been beautifully designed in the Art Deco and Art Nouveau styles. The schedule   Continue Reading…


Inspirational reads for developers

Again we want to share some articles from the past weeks. Today: AngularJS, Cache, Responsive design, Device testing, Content Security Policy, “data-” attributes and more


Meetups at XING

In the US they have already this movement which is now swapping over step by step to Europe: Meetups. Meetups are kind of “mini-conferences” about a special topic organized by volunteers and take place regulary in bigger rooms of companies in the evening of a working day. At XING for example we regulary host the   Continue Reading…