Category: Web Standards
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Will 2008 be the year of the standards compliant browser?
Microsoft announced yesterday on the Internet Explorer blog that the next version of Internet Explorer (IE8) will correctly render the Acid2 test page. See the excellent Channel 9 video for more. The Acid2 test is a test of a browser’s ability to properly render CSS and HTML. From the Acid2 Wikipedia page: The Acid2 test…
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How to make your website more indexable by search engines
I see Michael Arrington has a post on TechCrunch today about Dipsie dCloak – this is a product which is supposed to help websites make their content more indexable by search engines. That sounds laudable enough I hear you say – but wait a minute, I know two words which can help you do that…
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New Safari (released version) now passes the Acid2 test
The latest release of Safari (v2.02) – released in Mac OS X 10.4.3 today, now passes the Acid2 test – wohoo! Acid2 is a test page, written by the Web Standards Project, to help browser vendors ensure proper support for web standards in their products. Safari is now ahead of every major browser in its…
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Standards compliant Search Engines
Molly has done a study of the major Search Engines to see how Standards Compliant they are – and to the amazement of me, at least, the only Search Engine which comes in as Standards Compliant is MSN Search! MSN Search is fully XHTML 1.0 Strict compliant! Who’da thunk it? Kudos to the MSN Search…
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Start.com updated, I believe
Start.com’s blog announced several updates to the site yesterday – roaming profiles and changes to the sidebar – that’s all very well if you can see the site but being on a Mac I can’t tell you how they affect the Start.com experience as the Start.com site is not Mac friendly. Of course, we shouldn’t…
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Microsoft to embrace web standards?
No really – it is seemingly true. First Microsoft announce support for RSS and now the Web Standards Project announce that they have formed a task force with Microsoft Corp. to provide support as the company increases Web standards support in its products including Microsoft Visual Studio and ASP.NET The announcement goes on to say:…
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Internet Explorer 7 has tabs
The internet Explorer 7 blog is reporting that Internet Explorer 7 will have tabs when released. What’s funny about the blog is that they say: In general, I think tabs are a great idea. I liked them a lot in Office dialogs and in Excel in the early 90’s. No mention of the tabs in…
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Safari passes the Acid2 test
Acid2 is a page created by webstandards.org to test the web standards’ compliance of browsers as reported here on the 15th. David Hyatt, a Safari developer, is reporting that Safari is now passing the Acid2 test. If this is so, then Safari is the first browser to pass this test – Kudos to David. The…