Issues

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Have you all had a nice, enjoyable read of this?: Classic Clips: Bill Gates Chews Out Microsoft Over XP over at Gizmodo. It’s replete with a carefully manicured forum of breathlessly drippy Mac fan people (mainly boys) loving every second of Bill Gate’s very eloquent ‘alleged’ feedback memo to the Windows dev arm about the [...]

Stupid Microsoft has yet again shitted the web dev community off with recent announcements about how IE8 will pass the Acid 2 test. Not that that’s the bad thing. The Acid 2 test is like the grand-daddy of browser rendering tests, something that Microsoft has completely ignored despite continual and unabated pleading from the web [...]

Yeah, Microsoft did this really fucked thing where they changed their email layout renderer in Outlook 2007 from the HTML renderer in IE6, to the layout renderer of Word. There was no real justification for it and the line from MS was ‘Our customers wanted something that rendered layouts the same in their email as [...]

In today’s 21st century, electro-networked-decentric world, governed by stuffy, rich old bastards who aren’t in the government or a part of society, whose attitudes toward the global challenges of tomorrow are explicitly ,’not their problem’, it doesn’t surprise me even slightly that at the ‘Fundamentos Web 2007‘, the interoperability presentations were all conducted on different [...]

I am going to work. For the first time in over 6 years I will actually be going to a place that’s not inside my house, where I will do work on a permanent, full time basis. I am hanging up my freelance jockstrap, and venturing into the rigors of the 9 to 5.30 daily [...]