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Burningbird Specs

IE8, XHTML, and what am I going to do with my site?

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 […]

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XHTML/HTML

Adventures in XHTML

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 […]

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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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Stuff

Friday stuff but on Sunday

I realize my job here is to create entertaining stuff for you, but the muse isn’t on me. I’ll leave you other people’s creative stuff. From the Indiana University anthropology department, The Museum of Weird Consumer Culture. Fake testicles for your dog. I kid you not. (via Metafilter). Fish genetically engineered to taste like fish. Huh. From Malaria, […]

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Standards SVG XHTML/HTML

Even the mistakes are fun

Anne Van Kesteren: A new survey reveals that at least Microsoft and IBM think the HTML charter does not cover the canvas element. I have to wonder, when reading the survey results, how much the people who voted actually used either SVG or the Canvas element. I covered both SVG and the Canvas Element in the […]