I've been tinkering at a new theme for my website since the Christmas holidays and finally got around to flipping the switch this weekend. I decided to try my hand, for the first time, at real XHTML served as application/xhtml+xml but with PHP content negotiation to text/html for poor ol' Internet Explorer. Read the rest of this entry ...
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 ...
I recently made the switch from PHP4 to PHP5. Let me know if you see any breakages. Lots of hoopla about PHP4 being EOL'd in 2007, effectively forcing everyone (including hosts) to upgrade to PHP5. Read the rest of this entry ...