BurningbirdRecovered 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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Now, this is what I hoped to see when the Acid3 test was first announced. Not the macho posturing I saw yesterday. The WebKit folks published a writing at the Surfin’ Safari site that details the challenges met by Cameron McCormack associated with the last test. To me, the story is a fascinating look into browser development. I hope […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’m in the process of proofing Painting the Web, including testing all of the examples with the new IE8 beta. Yeah, fools rush in where angels fear to tread. I was frustrated that all of my canvas examples weren’t working with IE8, even if I picked IE7 emulation mode. From […]