Joeri Sebrechts

I waited way too long to get a real smartphone. Android ftw.

My #js1k entry: a side-scrolling shooter in 1018 bytes: http://sebrechts.net/files...

SVG filters are going to be the new blink tag. http://svg-wow.org/filterE...

Made a toy demo as a diversion. Got shown to a big customer. They loved it. Diversions are a good thing, sometimes.

Trying a new approach at work. Writing a functional req as a set of rules first. Then translating the rules directly to code.

Laptops are designed based on purpose but advertised based on specs. Difficult to recommend a laptop for a specific purpose, even if common

Why does ajaxian look like a turn of the century blog? Shouldn't it be more ... ajaxy?

I realized yesterday that I've stopped using HTML to develop web apps. It's all javascript from here on out.

Some people on facebook have 3700 friends. Why is it that "social" sites pretend there's no such thing as an acquaintance?

an online govt budget simulator could help us dismiss silly campaign promises. i guess that's why we dont have one.

"The only thing IE is good at is downloading firefox, and it's not great at that either" - well, that and inciting endless debate

I guess this is mostly going to be about web technology. And rants about apple. Oh, how I like to rant about apple.

Microsoft's kin looks like a great device for the facebook crowd. Strangely enough I want one, even though I don't log into facebook more than once a month.

95+ percent of the iphone apps could have been built as W3C widgets on a decently implemented widget runtime, with native functionality API's. That we don't have those widget runtimes is our own fault as developers for cheering on closed platforms like the iphone.

Capacitive touchscreen, and a webkit browser, for less than 140 euro. Couldn't say no to the Samsung Corby, and traded in my plain cell phone. Then again, the samsung mobile browser's info page says it is based on the "wedkit" project. Maybe it's not webkit after all? :)

http://www.browserchoice.eu/Browser... -- Of the 12 browsers on the EU ballot, 6 use trident, 3 use gecko, and 2 use webkit. Opera will not get as much mileage out of their EU complaint as they might wish.

Turns out that the girlfriend's Samsung Star has a relabeled netfront 3.5 browser, not a webkit browser. So much for "capable browser". It's still possible to build that widget I wanted to, but the javascript engine is very slow, and there's no support for background-position.

I keep wondering where Microsoft is going to go with IE9, and they keep not talking about it. Then again, I'm getting used to them acting all secret-like as if they're building the atom bomb, and then delivering the browsing equivalent of a penny whistle. ... Maybe that's unfair, they could still surprise me.

Whenever apple releases a new iProduct, the popular press spends a single breath praising it for reinventing its product category, and bashing it for missing essential features. Why does apple reinvention always have to mean a product ends up doing less than its competitors?

Amazed by how the (comparatively) cheap soft pink Samsung S5230 that the girlfriend just came home with turns out to have a quite capable browser. Webkit-based. Supports W3C widgets, called samsung widgets here. The widgets end up on the home screen, and can be interactive. I think some javascript game writing is at hand :D