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ACID3 and my head hurts

Recovered from the Wayback machine. Again, I congratulate the browser teams who have passed the Acid3 and have only one more thing to say: Don’t ever do that again. I’m right in the middle of going through the proofs for Painting the Web, and I’m having to make proof modifications to code and writing because […]

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WordPress 2.5 releases

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. WordPress 2.5 has released, including the bad markup generated with the Gallery option. If you serve your pages up as XHTML, the gallery won’t work for you. You will get invalid markup errors, the page will fail to load. Whether this can be fixed with a plug-in or not, I don’t […]

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IE8 and breaking the web

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Another break between IE7 and IE8 is the support for opacity. In previous versions of Internet Explorer, Microsoft used its own custom filters in order to implement opacity. This has been known for some time and libraries manage opacity for old and new browsers by using code like the following, […]