Calling this tool a validator seems... optimistic?

The ever confusing world of IE8's compat modes.

"When an application uses MSXML to process XHTML, redundant retrieval requests for well-known DTD files from the W3C Web server cause XHTML parsing to fail on a Windows-based computer"

misleading article title, but the general bits are interesting enough.

It was only a matter of time...

Hard to believe the "Close Your Tags" section is entirely accurate... that one would observe a noticeable speed difference in rendering... seems ideal for a benchmark test

Trident's Key event flow-chart

ahh legacy compat.

this matches my own testing of the situation and fails to point out that IE7 compat-mode != IE7. (Microsoft is aware of this and seemingly working on patching the problems where they can... but now we effectively have two versions of IE7 to test for.)

"The links below include tests for three W3C specifications in various stages of development. These include CSS 2.1, HTML5, and ARIA."

"IE8 checks for the presence of IEStandards.xml file (on the root domain) only if it hasn’t been requested in the last 30 days for that domain."

Some notes on the differences between hAtom and Microsoft's hSlice.

"We strive to make Compatibility View behave as much like IE7 as possible, but we do make exceptions. Many of these exceptions enable improved security and accessibility features immediately, even for sites that have not yet migrated to IE8 Standards Mode". Well this is helpful, there's some changes from IE7->Compat Mode on here I hadn't noticed yet.

Hrm, seems that sites in the compat mode list can be found in: "res://iecompat.dll/iecompatdata.xml

The IE logo licensed under creative commons, I need me some IE logo remixing.

Another one that is passable with the bonus of being hilarious.

This the first Songsmith mash-up I've heard that wasn't a one-time throw away gag. It is almost worthy as a B-side remix.

"In this case, the ampersand ends up in the string as a plain ampersand. But when the time comes to set the document location, IE applies another entity replacement, while other browsers don't. In IE 6, this code results in a visit to a URL with a copyright symbol in it."

"Windows CardSpace is a Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.0 component that provides the consistent user experience required by the identity metasystem. It is specifically hardened against tampering and spoofing to protect the end user's digital identities and maintain end-user control."

"The Iris Browser™ brings an unparalleled full Web experience to mobile and embedded devices. Based on the WebKit rendering engine, the Iris Browser is small, fast and user-friendly."

Supports Drupal and WordPress among others.

"W3C is investigating if it should set up a WG to make a standard version of EOT. There is no standard for embedding fonts in Web documents yet, but EOT, with some improvements, could become one. Microsoft and Monotype submitted their technology to W3C for that purpose. W3C staff asked many companies and people for their opinions. This is a summary. "

Powerset (recently purchased by Microsoft) employees green lighted to start contributing Hadoop patches again. (Hadoop is getting love from pretty much everyone at this point... )

Philip Taylor finds a bug in IE8 (beta 2)'s localStorage implementation that causes data loss.

An older article but worth noting for internet history/anthropological study of certain best practices.

MS Paint looking snazzy in Windows 7.

Daniel Glazman's company ported IE8's "web slices" feature to Firefox... it wasn't immediately clear to me from the description if this meant that an existing "web slice" would just work with WebChunks or not...

list of MS CSS properties, type, and their W3C status

"The interface objects (constructors) and interface prototype objects defined for Beta2 are based on the structure and function of IE's internal object model. Early on, we had to decide if we wanted to implement a "fake" layer for the constructor/prototype objects that looked identical to the W3C model, or to expose what we had, warts and all. While the warts weren't particularly attractive, they do help to bring clarity to the way that the DOM is represented internally and avoid having a whole series of internal mapping bugs between what is actual and what is veneer."

Not really sure wha the animated GIF is supposed to show... other than the fact that the vertical spacing on the W3C site looks like crap in compability mode.

Apparently IE's performance of string concatenation using the + operator (instead of array or stringbuilder methods) sucks. Also seems to be fixed in IE 8. Yay?

Nicolas Cage apparently promoting SQL Server 2008? strange world out there.

thoughtful analysis of "almost standards mode" and IE 8's versioning switch

Convert Word HTML output to XML.

There's a WordML -> HTML XSL script cited in this article.

I looked at doing this with SharePoint 2003 ages ago... it was a total non-starter. Sounds like Sharepoint 2007 is finally up to the task.

For those painful times where I'm running Vista

I want this job, who is going to hire me?

For the Windows hold-outs at work

Positive reviews of the new UI have me interested.

Poorly coded Ajax is no better than Flash and apparently MS went out to lunch during the rash of "please don't be stupid with AJAX" articles. Breaking the core functionality of the back button is, to quote Buffy, all kinds of scary bad.

Summarized results of eye-tracking studies on the new tooolbar interface in MS Office. Quote: "There's just no substitute for watching real people try to get work done in your product."

Video interview/walkthrough of the new Office 12 interface.