Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I thought it interesting and even odd how few people have remarked on the fact that Ray Ozzie began the opening keynote of a conference focused specifically at developers by talking about ads. My source for things geek, Planet Intertwingly, has had very few entries devoted to IE8. I imagine people […]
Year: 2008
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Apple embracing SVG?
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. A hopeful piece of news from yesterday was about the possibility that Apple will be using SVG for the iPhone rather than Flash. The advantages? SVG is lightweight, SVG is standard, SVG scales beautifully, SVG doesn’t have to be licensed, and Safari already implements much of the SVG 1.1 specification. Not to […]
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IE8 readiness and MIX08 keynote
Update Oops! Available now. For those continuing to click the download button, IE8 will be available at 2pm PST, which is 4pm CST, by my SVG clock. More later, but we can confirm that IE8 does not support the XHTML MIME type. My opinion, based on what I’m reading and seeing, Microsoft will never directly support […]
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Bye Dare
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Now that’s really unhappy news this morning: Dare Obasanjo is quitting his weblog. Dare’s been around weblogging as long as I have, and I’m sorry to see him go. Dare’s always had challenges with what he could write in his space. He’s an outspoken person who doesn’t hold back criticism, even […]
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IE8: Not supporting XHTML?
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Continuing from previous post Following are the web log entries that contain the new MSIE 8.0 user agent string, with the specific MS IP address blocked out: —-.microsoft.com – – [04/Mar/2008:01:55:29 +0000] “GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1” 200 1406 “-” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET […]