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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 […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Joel Spolksy just spent several thousand words and accompanying diagrams saying one thing: we did things crappy in the past, and we should continue doing things crappy in the future because crap is easy. Where do I start? This upcoming battle will be presided over by Dean Hachamovitch, the Microsoft veteran currently […]