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Browsers

And they’re off

The ACID3 race has begun. Coming around the first lap… Firefox 3 is in first place, with a comendable lead. Way to burn up the track, foxy! [image gone] Coming up from behind, we find the ACID crowd favorite, *Opera! [image gone] Winded, but still giving it all she’s got…Safari! (Is that a picture of a cat?) […]

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Technology

Macports, Unix, and Graphics

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. My upcoming book, Painting the Web includes considerable coverage of technology-enabled graphics. Of course, all graphics are technology enabled, but when I say ‘technology-enabled’ I mean graphics via command line tools or accessed through programming language such as PHP. What to cover wasn’t an easy choice. For instance, how much programming experience […]

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Standards SVG XHTML/HTML

Microsoft: Fish, or cut bait

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, […]

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Standards

Tyranny of Microsoft

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. July 20th, 2000, the Web Standards Project issued an ultimatum to Netscape/Mozilla, saying, in part: Why are you taking forever to deliver a usable browser? And why, if you are a company that believes in web standards, do you keep Navigator 4 on the market? If you genuinely realized it would […]

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Standards

Bobbing heads and the IE8 meta tag

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I was astonished to read the A List Apart article Beyond DOCTYPE: Web Standards, Forward Compatibility, and IE8 and even more astonished to read compliance with the message from Eric Meyer, Molly Holzschlag, and the WaSP organization. How the mighty have fallen is so very cliché but, oh, how appropriate. According to Aaron Gustafson, who wrote the ALA […]