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IE Gets it Right

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

I can’t say it much better than the IE Blog does:

We’ve decided that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can. This decision is a change from what we’ve posted previous
Previously, the IE team had wanted to require a DOCTYPE Switch in order for it to render properly [...]

Amazing CSS Animations

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

WebKit, if you didn’t know, is the web rendering engine behind Apple’s Safari web browser. It’s Open Source, too, meaning that anyone can take the WebKit source and build their own browser.
One thing that amazes me about WebKit is how the team keeps pushing the web forward. Over the past several months, they’ve added a [...]

You need a product road map

Friday, November 9th, 2007

I enjoyed the 37signals book and agree with a lot of their philosophy, but was baffled by today’s article, You don’t need a product road map.
The article makes a lot of assumptions about people who have a product road map:

They add all feature requests to the road map
They don’t do due diligence before adding features [...]

Twitter Batch Search

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

I was searching Twitter a few days ago, looking for people I know that might be twittering. I was surprised to find out that there was no mechanism to perform a batch search. The only way is to give Twitter your GMail username and password so it can search your contacts, and I’m [...]

Book: Optimizing for the iPhone and iPod Touch

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

August’s new book, Optimizing Your Website for Mobile Safari, just hit the web. It’s a great read for web designers and developers who want to better understand how to build websites that work well in Safari on the iPhone and iPod Touch. From the website:
You’ll learn about how the browser works and [...]