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So I guess it’s simply the time of year. Many big releases today… software, APIs, and more!
First, the biggest. IE8 has been released in initial beta. The release was also included a general overview of IE8’s new features and fixes. It’s actually quite a lot of information to absorb all at [...]

My IE8 happiness was so yesterday.  Now let’s tear all these browsers apart, IE8 included, with the Acid3 test!

So Microsoft announced they’re changing the default rendering behavior in IE8.  Reasons why aside (see 3rd to last paragraph), they are actually doing it.  This simply spreads good will, which is something Microsoft is hardly known for.  It’s a big public relations boon.
Seriously, thank you Microsoft.  Here’s to the continued spreading of good will.

The first time I played Yahtzee was… only about a month ago. I won 3 of my first 4 games. It was a fun game. I wonder how that game would be if I played against… oh, let’s say… Microsoft. Probably… not so much.
Jeremy Keith, my favorite famous-web-developer-that-I-watch-from-afar-via-his-blog (sorry, didn’t have a [...]

I woke up this morning and read the A List Apart articles (that I defered reading until this a.m.).  The powers that be have decided that IE will now use a metatag to decide what rendering type (ie6, ie7, ie9, etc.) to use.  This allows for backwards compatibility.  Supposedly.
First, I don’t really care about the meta.  It’s fine… it is just one more trick to add to the pile. Generally, [...]

Microsoft is claiming that a working version of IE8 is showing the smiley, and has passed the Acid2 test. Even if Microsoft is lying, this means that at the very least, someone there is using a browser that can pass!
[that, or they stole the screenshot from some place!]

So I have been working on a small piece of navigation at work. Tabs, to be exact. Multiple items, but no more than 5 at a time. Variable length titles (including some rather long). As it is a list of links, of course, I wanted to use an unordered list. [...]