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Microsoft made great leaps forward with IE8, and just when I start thinking they deserve a nice pat on the back for embracing standards, they give me another reason to lose faith in them. The recent announcement is that Outlook 2010, like Outlook 2007, will use Microsoft Word for it’s rendering engine

It’s April. The weather is starting to get nicer, Easter is around the corner…and hundreds of people are going streaking! No, you don’t have to be nervous about heading outside today. Once again it’s time for the annual CSS Naked Day.

Secondary education for web development and design is something that interests me greatly. Opera published their Web Standards Curriculum, and that was a great step in the right direction, but The Web Standards Project (WaSP) has taken it to an all new level with their recently launched InterAct Curriculum.

There’s a lot of interesting new features being suggested for HTML5 and XHTML2. One feature being implemented in HTML5 that I do like is the addition of custom data attributes to HTML elements.

One topic that I have been interested in for quite some time now is secondary education when it comes to web development and design. It is a very unfortunate truth that when it comes to web development, the curriculum is in serious need of some help.

It was just announced today that Opera’s developers have received the first 100/100 test score on the new Acid 3 test. There is apparently a small rendering glitch they still need to take care of, but this is really incredible progress considering the test was just formally announced on March 3rd.

There has been an awful lot of talk around the web community about Microsoft’s new feature in IE8 – version targeting. Initially, I hated the idea. However, instead of jumping in blindly, I thought it deserved a more detailed look on my part.

Just in time for the holiday season, Microsoft has let it be known that IE8 passes the Acid 2 test in standards mode. This is excellent news for web developers, and quite refreshing to hear coming from the same people who said passing the Acid 2 test simply wasn’t a priority for IE7.