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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 [...]

The Color of a Button

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

My mantra is simple: no web page is perfect, and it can always be improved. Whenever I’m working on a web page — even one that has been “stable” for some time — I always examine the page to see if it can be improved upon. I check to make sure the page is as [...]

Windows Safari is on the Right Track

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

I started up Safari on Windows yesterday to test a website, and was delighted to see a major change in the 3.0.4 update: increased compatibility with the Windows desktop environment.

This means that Safari windows now behave the same way that other application windows do, and support utilities that enhance or alter that behavior. For [...]

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 [...]