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Has anyone seen this problem before and have any idea how to solve it? In firefox, the text wraps around both floats correctly. In IE6/7, the text only wraps around the second float. Read More...

Hooray! The feedback from the web development community convinced the IE development team to change their minds about the default setting for version targeting in IE8 (as I discussed in a previous post ). “In light of the Interoperability Principles, as well as feedback from the community, we’re choosing differently. Now, IE8 will show pages requesting ‘Standards’ mode in IE8’s Standards mode. Developers who want their pages shown using IE8’s ‘IE7 Standards mode’ will... Read More...

Previously on Web Developer Controversies: Aaron Gustafson from the Internet Explorer development team announced that IE8 will use a META tag to kick the engine into standards mode by targeting a specific browser version, something that was previously done by using a valid DOCTYPE. A lot of people, including Jeremy Keith, think this is a bad idea. Here are some of the more interesting points that have been raised in the discussion so far. “If IE8 acts like IE8 by default, then IE8 might break... Read More...

In 1998, Jeffrey Zeldman co-founded the Web Standards Project to fight for better support of web standards from the browser manufacturers and web developers. It was a success, if for no other reason than it provided a flag to rally behind. This year, the Email Standards Project was founded to rally support for web standards in email clients. The Email Standards Project is about working with email client developers and the design community to improve web standards support and accessibility in email... Read More...

“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.” – Bill Gates Read More...

I'm working on a solution that requires a special type of chart to visualize results from some elaborate number crunching algorithms. Dundas Chart for .Net has an implementation of the standard polar chart. That's the closest "buy" option I could find and it might very well do the job. I'm a big fan of using existing software when it can solve a significant portion of the problem domain. When you find a good off-the-shelf option, they're often inexpensive and supported ... Read More...

Dave Shea pointed out back in August that IE7 will ship with ClearType enabled , even on XP! Read More...

"It's a myth that you need a great client. It's possible to do great work for a terrible client -- if you're willing to extend the scope of the project indefinitely." -- Jeffrey Zeldman I already blogged about An Event Apart over on my personal blog, but I figured I should at least mention it here. Pop Art sent me to the conference along with my fellow CSS-man, Ryan, and we had a great time. I went all nerdly-fanboy and got my photo taken with Zeldman and Meyer, and I introduced... Read More...

In case you haven't heard, IE7 is going to be released as a priority upgrade , which means that it will be automatically downloaded for most users. Not everyone installs all priority updates , of course, and there will be usual tool to allow businesses to block the download if they're not ready to upgrade. Nonetheless, this means we'll see much higher adoption rates that we were expecting. The interesting thing now is reading the debate going on in the community over how long we should... Read More...

Ryan pointed me to an excellent interview with Håkon Wium Lie , the man who proposed the concept of CSS to the W3C. The interview covers a wide range, from why certain things work certain ways, to his enthusiasm for microformats. He also places the blame for CSS difficulties squarely in Microsoft's court for not fully supporting CSS2 in IE6, which he says they chose not to do for political reasons. Read More...