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Microsoft admits IE7 will fail standards test
Microsoft's new Internet Explorer 7 browser won't pass a stringent standards test that rivals have embraced. Read more »
Microsoft hints at general plan for IE8
Microsoft will continue to prioritise security and ease-of-use in the forthcoming Internet Explorer 8 and will seek to improve Web development with current standards compatibility, according to the software giant. Read more »
Microsoft discloses some IE 7 plans
Microsoft finally told Web developers what they've wanted to hear for years, promising support for graphics and style sheet standards. Read more »
Language barriers may stifle Web future
The lack of backwards compatibility between the Web scripting language XHTML 2.0 and its HTML predecessors could make billions of Web pages obsolete, experts fear. Read more »
Office 2007: FrontPage is out, blogging is in
Don't go looking for FrontPage in the just-released Beta 2 edition of Office 2007. Microsoft has axed its 10-year-old Web site authoring software. Read more »
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Opera CTO: IE 8 will fail Acid test
Two years ago, the Acid2 test was announced in this column. Acid2 is a complex Web browser test page that shows a smiley face when rendered correctly Read more »
Get more accessible with CSS
Poorly written HTML may render sites inaccessible to some visitors. Find out how separating presentation from content with CSS can help. Read more »
Abandon tables, simplify design with CSS
HTML developers often use tables to create page layouts. But Cascading Style Sheets offer a more nimble alternative. This quick tutorial shows you the way. Read more »
Review: Dreamweaver MX 2004 improves CSS support
Dreamweaver MX 2004 claims to support pure CSS layouts. No more funky tables or weird bump gifs. Does this latest version keep Dreamweaver at the top of the WYSIWYG HTML editing heap? Read more »
Put XHTML 1.0 Strict and Transitional to work
XHTML 1.0 comes in three flavours, and it requires more than a sense of taste for developers to tell them apart. This article discusses the Transitional and Strict flavours of XHTML and how to leverage them appropriately. Read more »
Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) primer
Wireless development is an untapped and emerging market, but how or where does WAP fit in? Read our WAP primer for the details. Read more »
Understanding the CSS box model
Cascading Style Sheets: They're easy to use, don't require any special software, and work uniformly on most major browsers. However, in their very simplicity lies a danger Read more »
Use DOM to create data-driven HTML documents
The Document Object Model can be a powerful object-oriented tool for creating data-driven HTML documents. See how DOM can be used in conjunction with XML data islands to increase the efficiency of your Web applications. Read more »
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Bridging the gap between programmers and the visionA successful project will have a hard time flying if you don't walk through the game plan before writing a line of code. Read more »
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Social news start-up Streem shuts downSydney social news start-up Streem will shut down this afternoon, according to a heartfelt notice posted on the site this morning by its founder Elgar Welch. Read more »
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Space pr0n, patent karma and Yang out -- Club Builder
On Club Builder this week: how NASA plans to get the Internet into space, Jerry Yang is out the door at Yahoo and Brendan Eich discusses javascript engine competition.