Web standards are once again big news as Netscape has released the first preview of Navigator 6, and Microsoft has released the beta of IE 5.5. When testing the two browsers, you might want to check out the W3C CSS1 test suite. Of course, there are other standards as well, but I don’t have good links for the tests right now. (Netscape posted some tests on their site, but I don’t trust Netscape any more than I trust Microsoft.)
For the sake of completeness, I’ll post a link to Microsoft’s justification of why they refuse to support published standards.
Dale Dougherty asks David Axmark of T.c.X. who uses mySQL? I do, and I’d use it more if it supported subqueries. Get to work!
The ever-reliable Tara Calishain sends along this link to a Microsoft support article. I’m surprised it this is a bug, I figured Microsoft was trying to embrace and extend the behavior of bodies in the solar system.
Scott Rosenberg on just how stupid it was for Microsoft to put Ralph Reed on the payroll.
Over at Slate today, William Saletan offers a comprehensive list of the excuses for not believing Juan Gonzalez offered by people who don’t believe that Elian should be sent back to Cuba to live with his father.
OK, it seems to be in vogue today to talk about whether Mozilla is a browser, or whether it’s an application platform. If you thought I wouldn’t toss in my two cents, you’re mistaken. First of all, regardless of what the Mozilla project is building, Netscape 6 PR 1 is a browser. A browser that needs an awful lot of work before it’s fit for public consumption. It seems to me that regardless of whatever else the Mozilla project does, they should be building the components necessary for Netscape (and anyone else who uses the Mozilla code) to release a killer browser. Fortunately, the people at Mozilla seem to understand this. It seems to me that once again we have a case of the hangers on coming up with some whacked out argument about why whatever they’re feeling religious about can do no wrong while the actual developers figure out what’s wrong and do their best to fix it. This is an everyday occurence in the world of computers. Nothing to see here, move along.