Version targeting shakes our browser-agnostic faith. Its default behavior runs counter to our expectations, and seems wrong. Yet to offer true DOM support without bringing JScript-authored sites to their knees, version targeting must work the way Microsoft proposes, argues Jeffrey Zeldman.

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IE8’s version targeting will allowing Microsoft to reach new heights of standards compliance where CSS and (especially) scripting are concerned. But to benefit from it, developers must explicitly opt in. That’s just not right, says Jeremy Keith.

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Recently I was lucky enough to be able to attend the Future of Web Apps conference in London. With my main area of work being Web Design as opposed to Web Development I was quite concerned that a lot of the lectures would be a little too "techy" for me, but this was not the case at all. In fact the majority of the lectures were of a lot of interest to me and my areas of interest. the only overall complaint I would have is the fact that a lot of the lectures centred around startup apps, but being fair I suspect that the majority of the people there would of been for that specific reason. (more…)

This was posted on Techncrunch the other day and has now made me very interested in Twitter again after initially thinking WTF about it. The only reason though is to get on the UK version of the Twitter Poster.

As stated below there doesn’t seem to be a lot of purpose to the Twitter Poster, and how people get ranked in different ways, but dammit I gotta get on there some how, just firstly I’ve got to understand exactly what Twitter is and how it works?! (more…)

In April 2007, A List Apart and An Event Apart conducted a survey of people who make websites. Close to 33,000 web professionals answered the survey’s 37 questions, providing the first data ever collected on the business of web design and development as practiced in the U.S. and worldwide.

Working with statisticians, we spent the next months crunching raw data into meaningful findings. Here we present what we have learned about our powerful yet little-studied profession.

Read the survey results here

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