IE9 to include alternative ‘CSS.2012′ standard

Excerpt: The Internet Explorer team announced on their blog today that they are unhappy with the slow progress and differing implementations of the various CSS3 modules, and will not be including any CSS3 functionality in IE8; instead they will be producing their own, alternative standard, which they are cod…

New hosting, WordPress 2.5 and more!

Excerpt: Some of you might have noticed that in the last few months, we've been having quite a few outages. Most of these were directly related to this blog being on Digg, Slashdot, Reddit, you name it. Some of the outages were caused by an even nastier thing, my other blog, an SEO blog, was on the same serv…

CSS 2007 snapshot, CSS3, and Acid 3

Excerpt: One of the interesting things about Acid 3 is that it tests parts of the CSS3 Colour and CSS3 Selectors modules, that are a part of the 2007 CSS snapshot. Now that both Opera and WebKit pass the standards part of the Acid 3 test, the support for the snapshot has now also improved. The CSS 2007 sn…

Opera overtakes Safari in Acid3 race, reaches 100%

Excerpt: Update by David: Opera has now released a public WinGogi build of Opera passing the DOM test and with pixel perfect rendering. We don't believe we have passed the test yet, as there are performance issues with a couple of tests. This puts Opera and Safari neck and neck. It is fantastic to see bot…

Webkit introduces ‘background-clip:text’

Excerpt: Yesterday Dave announced that the team have introduced a new proprietary value for the CSS3 'background-clip' property.The new value "...causes the background image to clip to foreground text (including decorations and shadows). The shape of the foreground content (including alpha transparency in th…