Excellent -- although it's still depressing that a company had to spend years in court to protect their right to innovate. What's especially interesting is a product in such a high end niche will probably be amongst the first to get to pure Internet distribution. They won the battle, but it matters less than it did when it started.

Quoted: Kaleidescape argued, first and foremost, that nothing in the DVD CCA licensing agreement prohibits the development of products that allow users to copy their DVDs.

Quoted: Fixing up a badly formatted CSS File with Emacs, using macros, regular expression replacements, and other basic features.

Sounds promising, but crashes every time I try to do anything with it.

Quoted: We’re happy to announce the availability of a new beta of the IE Developer Toolbar . Along with all the features available previously this release contains some new features to improve the usability and help web designers troubleshoot issues on their

Direct download for IE6 test virtual image. Extraordinarily annoying "Genuine Advantage" validation required.

Quoted: VPC Hard Disk Image for testing websites on IE6 SP2

A free (virtual) version of XP + IE6 for testing. Finally, a supported way of doing this.

Quoted: Many of you have asked how to run IE6 and IE7 in a side by side environment. As Chris Wilson blogged about early this year, it’s unfortunately not so easy to do. There are workarounds, but they are unsupported and don’t necessarily work the same way as

People accuse the W3C standards process of being slow ... well, here you can see that's just not the case.

For example, the CSS (3) Backgrounds and Borders specification is still a "working draft", the same state it was in 2001-09-24. (!!!).

5 years to figure out how to round corners? Really?

Preliminary support for CSS3 columns is in Firefox 1.5 -- hadn't realized this until I stumbled across a blog using it.

Quoted: Two CSS properties control whether and how many columns will appear: -moz-column-count and -moz-column-width.

This pattern pretty much alleviates the need for CSS ...

Quoted: The poor fellow updating the bookstore's web page found a rather unique way to avoid learning to use linebreak tags:

Handy table -- triggering standards mode rendering in various UAs.

Quoted: Explains how browsers use doctype sniffing to switch the layout mode between the quirks mode and the standards mode.