BurningbirdAbout XHTML/HTML
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. As an example of Microsoft’s new commitment to being more open with web developers, the company is releasing the IE8 beta to invited testers only, with a more general release later. Perhaps by “open”, we don’t all mean the same thing? I also noticed that the company has not provided any answers […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. On today’s tenth anniversary of the birth of XML, Norm Walsh writes: I joined O’Reilly on the very first day of an unprecedented two-week period during which the production department, the folks who actually turn finished manuscripts into books, was closed. The department was undergoing a two-week training period during which they would […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. During the recent light hearted discussions revolving around IE8 and its faithful companion, Wonder Tag, a second topic thread broke out about XHTML. As is typical whenever XHTML is brought up, the talk circles around to the draconian error handling or yellow screen of death when encountering even a small, harmless seeming discrepancy in a page’s […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Sam Ruby quotes a comment Microsoft’s Chris Wilson made in another weblog post: I want to jam standards support into (this and future versions of) Internet Explorer. If a shiv is the only pragmatic tool I can use to do so, shouldn’t I be using it? Sam responded with an SVG workaround, […]
Sam Ruby wrote, Jackass 2.5 is available exclusively on SilverLight and my first thought was, “Hey! IE 8 must be shipping!” Then I clicked the link and realized he was talking about a movie. Sam brought up Jackass the movie because of an issue of the video element in the HTML5 specification, and whether user agents should, or […]