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Reasons to write bad code.
Why would somebody write bad code ? Ahh!! now we all know the reason.Open XML Community: Ecma International Open Standard for Office Applications
The Open XML community is a group of public institutions, businesses<sep/>ISO/IEC DIS 29500, Information technology – Office Open XML as an ISO/IEC standard. This community believes in the<sep/>
Getting Ready for IE8
Internet Explorer 8 beta 1 is available to download and begin testing. Understanding your options when dealing with IE8 will help you keep your sites in line.And the fastest browser is... | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET News.com
Weak developers write code that limps on anything but Windows. Great developers write code that ports well to diverse platforms.
Microsoft: 'ODF Has Clearly Won'
The battle between the OpenDocument Format and Microsoft's Open Office XML was long, and here and there rather nasty, but it appears as if we finally have a winner. The company behind OOXML already conceded by announcing it would implement support for ODF in Office 2007 SP2, but now it has also said it quite literally: ODF has won.IE8 development: Microsoft should learn from Apple, Mozilla
MS needs to be more open exactly what standards will be supported.
ISO puts standard for Microsoft's OOXML document formats on hold
After member states filed four complaints against the standardisation of Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format, the International Standards Organisation (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) in Geneva have responded by postponing publication of the revised specification. As the ISO announced, the planned ISO/IEC DIS 29500 cannot be published until these complaints have been heard. Procedure requires that they be dealt with by the end of June, when the ISO and IEC have to hand over their comments on the complaints to two management committees for a final decision.The web is best viewed with anything else than IE
[The entire web is] Best viewed with [anything but any] Internet Explorer based browser. It's time for the old images; "Best viewed with" again ;)Four nations fight Microsoft document-format standard | Technology | Reuters
Four developing countries have appealed against the adoption of Microsoft's Office Open XML document format as an international standard, the International Organisation for Standardisation said<sep/>
Move your visitors away from IE6
If you're like me, you probably hate IE6. 80% of my CSS debugging is spent on IE6, as well as 70% of my JS debugging. It's an incredible waste of time. So why not try to encourage our visitors to move away from that piece of crap? It's quite easy, you'll see. All it requires is a bit of HTML.Martian Headsets - Joel on Software
Nice (long) piece on software - especially browser - standards.
A Web Standard No One Talks About
In my work, I deal with a variety of clients and a variety of project managers. Each has their own way to doing things, which is to be expected. But the change I propose to the world is a change in one standard: content delivery.Microsoft Office 2007 to Support ODF - and not OOXML
Microsoft today announced that it would update Office 2007 to natively support ODF 1.1, but not to implement its own OOXML format.
Automated conversion to web standards a (beta!) reality
The first beta version of Aggiorno has been released: it can convert crappy source code to valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional in just a couple of clicks. It works as an add-in to Visual Studio and claims to be able to move existing web sites to standards in a couple of minutes. New transformations, such as moving from tables to CSS, will be added later.Microsoft discloses 14,000 pages of coding secrets
Microsoft today lifted the lid on 14,000 pages of sketchy versions of tech documentation for core software code. On show for the first time in public are underlying protocols for Office 2007, Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2007.Browser Beta Battle : IE8 vs Firefox 3b5
A quick comparison of page load times on IE8 vs Firefox 3.0b5How Not To Form a Standard
Out of a 6000 page submission, here is but one example of how Microsoft's OOXML becomes painful to implement.Why Internet Explorer 8 is shaping up to be another IE6
It looks like IE8 is going down the same broken path that Internet Explorer 6 took. They are making up markup and not adhering to web standards at all. They didn't even really pass the acid2 test like they told us.IE8 and Standards - Holy cow; THEY REALLY DID IT!
Today I was truly 100% blown away, a move I would never expect flashed up in my face when I read the news; IE8 is going to render webpages with standard mode on by default!
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