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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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Opera brings AJAX to mobiles
A beta version of the Opera Platform SDK allows interactive Web applications on smartphones. Read more »
IE7 feature news emerges
It looks like Microsoft might be listening after all. News has leaked out that work is being done to implement several important demands from the Web development community into the next version of Internet Explorer. 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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Get started with Web vector graphics
At the Web Directions South conference in Sydney, Dmitry Baranovskiy presented "Web Vector Graphics", giving an overview of the models available for creating vector graphics on the Web and tools to make them render correctly in all browsers. Read more »
When will Microsoft fully embrace Web standards?
I recently revisited the issue of using Web standards when working with Microsoft SharePoint 2007 and Outlook 2007. The products' lack of adherence to Web standards was surprising given the advancements incorporated in Internet Explorer 7. Read more »
Control element placement with CSS stacking
Positioning elements on a Web page with CSS has many caveats. One interesting scenario crops up when you need one element to appear where another element is already located. The issue is easily resolved using the z-index CSS feature to control the stacking of elements. Read more »
HTML 5 aims to formalise Semantic HTML
It's kind of hard to believe that it's almost been a decade since HTML 4.01 was made official. However, it has taken browsers a while to recognize the standard, and this process continues today. 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 »
The spider's Web of CSS
Finishing up our Web Directions South build up, we talk to Andy Clarke, Web designer, presenter and invited expert to the W3C's CSS working group. Andy gave us the low down on standards, the new way of designing Web sites and the problem with Web 2.0. 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 »
Determining a standard screen resolution for your application
If you're trying to decide whether to use a screen resolution higher than 800x600, there are many factors -- such as the preferences of your target audience -- to consider before making that move. 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 »
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Opera Widget SDK released
-- Opera has announced the release of Opera Widgets SDK beta, that allows Web developers to create Web applications capable of running on all devices. Read more »
Spry Game
-- At this year's Adobe WebDU conference in Sydney, Greg Rewis gave a presentation on Spry 1.6, the AJAX framework. Read more »
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XP stays on life support for longerThis week's Roundup looks at Microsoft's decision to extend the life of Windows XP, the release of Microsoft Surface SDK, Firefox's new Geode plug-in, Yahoo's new tool -- Smush It and more. Read more »
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The good and truly awful celluloid depictions of computersEver wonder why your lawyer uncle leaves the room whenever you turn over to Boston Legal? Or why your forensic science cousin can't stand crime drama? You know the answer: it’s the horrid trivialisation and dumbing down of an occupation to make it appear entertaining. Sometimes it is so unbelievable that it actually hurts and yelling at the screen is the only outlet. Read more »
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Apple's iPhone engineers to tour Sydney, MelbourneAussie developers will be able to get up close and personal with some of the iPhone engineers in November to learn how to build applications for the platform. Read more »
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