MS reverse decision on IE8’s opt-in standards compliancy mode

Excerpt: Yesterday, Dean Hachamovitch announced that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can. This decision is a change from what they announced initially which prompted a huge amount of feedback (good and bad) within the web community. Dean goes on to mentio…

Shape the future of CSS3: Final week

Excerpt: The closing date for letting the W3C know your priorities for CSS3 is Monday, March 10th. If you want to help shape the future of CSS, get over to webstandards.org and leave a comment now.…

Tooltips with CSS3

Excerpt: As this is my first post, I'd like to introduce myself. My names James and I'm currently working as a senior User Interface Developer for Teachers TV. Like many of you guys, I'm fanatical about web standards and about creating the leanest, most semantic markup possible. I too am excited about the ne…

Opera Dragonfly…soon

Excerpt: Opera has a dragonfly that is getting ready to hatch. If any of you are attending SxSW, Opera will be revealing more information there. Catch us at the booth or at the Rock Opera party at Stubbs on the 10th of March. Keep your eyes open for updates to the Dragonfly site, for more information befo…

Just how useful are CSS3 selectors?

Excerpt: Mozilla's John Resig has removed support for certain CSS3 selectors from the jQuery Javascript library, and says the fact that no-one has asked for them to be reintroduced is evidence that they aren't very useful: Now, I'm sure I'll probably get lots of feedback saying "but 'E + F' can be usefu…