If you design for the web, you are aware of the constant battles of having your site or email campaign display correctly in any IE browser or Outlook mail client.

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The hard reality of improving web design and development education in our nation's institutions of higher learning.

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Several months after joining the Apache Foundation, Microsoft has made its first code contribution to an Apache project. The project, known as Stonehenge, is made up of companies and developers seeking to test the interoperability of Web standards implementations.

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T. V. RAMAN was a bookish child who developed a love of math and puzzles at an early age.

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If you're a web developer looking forward to the new tools in HTML 5, the next generation of the language that powers the web, we have some bad news for you — you're going to waiting a while.

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HTML 5 represents the biggest leap forward in web standards in almost a decade. Unlike the specifications that came before it, HTML 5 is not merely intended to present content to a web browser.

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It's rare that the closure of an academic research group causes controversy. But when UT-Austin shuttered its institute researching Web accessibility, it triggered a firestorm of controversy about its attitude toward making technology available for people with disabilities.

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Today, it was brought to my attention that HTML 5 Editor Ian Hickson, in an August 27 interview with TechRepublic outlined a timetable for the "new" spec, which began life back in 2003. Hixie suggests HTML 5 will reach the "Proposed Recommendation" stage sometime in 2022.

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If you follow CSS, you're probably sick of hearing promises of CSS 3 -- the next generation style sheet language that should have been here several years ago.

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Tables got to be one of the most difficult objects to style in the Web, thanks to the cryptic markup, amount of detail we have to look over to, and lack of browser compatibility. A lot of time could be wasted on a single table although it's just a simple one.

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Internet Explorer 8 is set to be Microsoft's most standards compliant browser ever. After originally stating that IE8 would default to the same noncompliant behavior exhibited by IE7, Microsoft relented and plumped for standard-by-default.

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Opera Software today released to the world the final public release of its flagship Web browser, Opera 9.5. Opera's cross-device expertise, support for open Web standards and commitment to speed and performance culminate to create the most powerful Opera browser yet.

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Web Accessibility Tools

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These were done with browsercam, so the test may or may not have fully run its course by the time the 15 second delay was up.

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Microsoft's Internet Explorer team has backed down and announced that the upcoming IE8 will support established web standards out of the box.

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After much grumbling by developers and users, the vole has abruptly volete faced on its strange IE8 decision to make web pages opt in to conforming behavior, now deciding that it would in fact be a better idea to have the new browser render in full standards mode by default.

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My typical web design process

I often times get asked what my process is for designing and building a typical website. And, while my process is probably not much different than others, I thought I would share it for people that are maybe looking to simplify the process of designing a site.

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In an hour long interview posted today about the Semantic Web, W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee says all the pieces are in place to move full steam ahead and realize the potential of a world of structured, machine readable data.

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Proprietary innovations by browser vendors are nothing new. Internet Explorer alone has given us XMLHttpRequest, innerHTML, and colored scrollbars. In each instance, we were free to use or ignore these non-standard extensions.

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A fascinating thing has happened in the world of JavaScript DOM traversal: Over the course of a couple months in 2007 three of the major JavaScript libraries (Prototype, Dojo, and Mootools) all switched their CSS selector engines to using the browser's native XPath functionality, …

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This is Microshaft's way of saying we are going to support crappy pages made in front page.

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For seven years, the DOCTYPE switch has stood designers and developers in good stead as a toggle between standards mode and quirks mode. But when IE7, with its greatly improved support for standards, "broke the web," it revealed the flaw in our toggle.

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Now, with all that context, I'm delighted to tell you that on Wednesday, December 12, Internet Explorer correctly rendered the Acid2 page in IE8 standards mode.

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As has been widely reported, software developer Opera, has filed an antitrust complaint with the EU to force Microsoft to support open Web standards in Internet Explorer and to carry alternative browsers pre-installed on Windows.

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Yesterday I was once again honored to have the opportunity to speak directly with Bill Gates at Mix n' Mash about issues pertaining to standards and the upcoming IE8.

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