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HTML 5 working draft published

A working draft of the HTML 5 specification has been published – http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5-20080122/ (January 22, 2008). There is an associated press release – http://www.w3.org/2008/02/html5-pressrelease. InfoWorld also has a review/ overview of this milestone – http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/01/22/W3C-offers-HTML-5-draft_1.html. Students are encouraged to review these documents; we can discuss further in class.

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Acid test

In several classes, I briefly mentioned that Internet Explorer 8 has passed the Acid test (actually the Acid 2 test). I forgot to mention the actual URL (for those who want to try this out in their browser). Please visit http://www.hixie.ch/tests/evil/acid/002/. Note that therer is an Acid 3 test, but […]

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End of an era…

I thought everyone might find this of interest. AOL will no longer support Netscape as of Feb. 1, 2008. Yes, I meant to post something earlier, but simply was overwhelmed. Details can be found at: http://blog.netscape.com/2007/12/28/end-of-support-for-netscape-web-browsers/ Some of us (me) can recall when this browser was practically the only show […]

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Spring, 2008 classes

I hope you are as excited about the start of the spring semester as I am. I do plan to try out some new techniques in my classes (rather than traditional lectures). Stay tuned as to how well that works out. Based on current enrollments, these are the classes I […]

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