Lots of continued discussion about Internet Explorer and Microsoft's support of web standards. Sam Ruby continues to finesse his SVG-via-Silverlight solution (improvement: use createElement() and then some XSLT to transform from SVG's XML elements to XAML's). Shelley Powers continues to finesse her ultimatum (ultimatae?) to Microsoft. I thought I'd post a few loose predictions of what I think IE8 will have when released. Read the rest of this entry ...
The IEBlog let the world know how you're going to have to opt in for their third (and counting) rendering mode that IE8 will support. You know, the one that should support CSS2 the way other browsers already do without such a mode. Put the following into your <head> section of your page and you'll get IE8's "super standards" mode.
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" />
There are, of course, many many unanswered questions... For those who can't be bothered to read my whole post, please see the main point. For others with patience, Read the rest of this entry ...
Big news in the blogosphere - the IEBlog finally divulged some real details about Internet Explorer 8: An internal build of IE8 supports the Acid2 Test, meaning a great deal of HTML and CSS-related quirks have been mopped up. Read the rest of this entry ...
I've been following Shelley Powers' blog for about half a year now, ever since I discovered her on some feed searches for SVG. Today she posts some post-mortem thoughts on her latest book about Web Graphics. In addition, she makes a bold statement: "I will no longer compensate for limited or broken specification support in browsers after January 1, 2010" Read the rest of this entry ...
I recently got ahold of a nice MacBook Pro and I'm using it as my primary Windows box at work. It's nice and snappy and I like it, but I'm having trouble getting used to the keyboard, let alone the one-button mousepad. I thought I'd use this post to collapse several google searches into one location. I'll likely add to this list as I learn more tricks. Read the rest of this entry ...