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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 »

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 »

New site technology for visually impaired surfers

A Queensland Web design company is using technology that is said to make it easier for blind and visually impaired people to use the Internet. Read more »

W3C proposes XML identifiers

Calling it one of the final pieces of the XML puzzle, the Web's leading standards body proposed a uniform way of identifying elements within XML documents. Read more »

Making the Web fit for mobile

The World Wide Web Consortium last week published a first public working draft of Device Independent Authoring Language, which is aimed at making it easy to present content on a wide variety of mobile devices. Read more »

Mozilla 1.0 unleashed

More than four years after its inception, the open-source browser is ready for the public. And its impact could go beyond browsing Read more »

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 »

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 »

AJAX sets off tools race

The growing popularity of interactive Web sites has set off a race among software companies, each pitching their own development toolkit. Read more »

Firefox tool gets slick

Rip, mix--get burned? Read more »

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How do CSS editors TopStyle and Style Master stack up?

Two external cascading style sheet (CSS) editors--Style Master and TopStyle--can decrease your coding time. But which product should you choose? Find out which one offers the most functionality for the best price. Read more »

A print alternative without the extra work

Providing printer-friendly versions of your content used to mean creating a separate copy of the content designed specifically for the print device. Thanks to cascading style sheets, there's a better way. Read more »

Is CSS ready for prime time?

The focus on designing Web sites using CSS rather than tables for layout is increasing. This trend could be a sign that CSS has finally been accepted by mainstream Web developers. 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 »

Superimpose text over an image by using CSS-styled text

In this article Michael Meadhra shows you how to use CSS to keep the text and image separate to achieve a photo with superimposed text. Read more »

Text-size switching with PHP and CSS

This tutorial will show you how to add such a text size switcher to your Web pages using PHP and CSS. Read more »

Creating a pure CSS horizontal navigation bar

Now that tables are no longer recommended for positioning any nontabular page content, many Web authors are looking for ways to create navigation bars using structural XHTML markup and CSS formatting. Read more »

Dealing with differences in CSS floats in IE and Netscape

An annoying problem with CSS code is the interpretation by different browsers. Here's a workaround to one problem: the differences in how variable-width floats are rendered in IE and Netscape. 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 »

Does CSS provide higher ROI than straight HTML?

In this article developer Shawn Morton, revisits the issue of HTML vs. CSS by performing an ROI analysis. Read more »

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Opera's MAMA offers search to web developers

Lana Kovacevic [blogs:webanatomy] -- Opera has created a new search engine letting web developers discover how web pages are structured. Read more »

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