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Monthly Archives: March 2008
Zoe likes to sprawl
Sometimes Zoe wakes up at 4 or 5am, and Annie is nice enough to take her downstairs so she doesn’t wake me up. Usually when my alarm goes off, I will find them both asleep on the couch. This morning, though, Zoe had sprawled out backwards across Annie’s leg, with one foot up on her chest, and I had to document it.
Version Targeting and IE8 Followup
Hooray! The feedback from the web development community convinced the IE development team to change their minds about the default setting for version targeting in IE8 (as I discussed in a previous post).
“In light of the Interoperability Principles, as well as feedback from the community, we’re choosing differently. Now, IE8 will show pages requesting ‘Standards’ mode in IE8’s Standards mode. Developers who want their pages shown using IE8’s ‘IE7 Standards mode’ will need to request that explicitly (using the http header/meta tag approach).”
– Dean Hachamovitch, Microsoft’s Interoperability Principles and IE8
To clarify, version targeting will still exist in IE8, which is a good thing. The change is that instead of defaulting to IE7′s rendering engine, it will default to IE8 — which is the behavior you would logically expect.
You know, it’s really nice to make a post where I can say something nice about Microsoft, and that’s been happening a lot more often lately, thanks to the IE development team. Way to go, guys!
Note: This was originally posted on my work blog, and I’m re-posting it here for archival purposes.
Crooked Little Vein: One Paragraph Review
“I opened my eyes to see the rat taking a piss in my coffee mug” is the first line ofCrooked Little Vein, by Warren Ellis, who may be familiar to you from his work in comics, includingTransmetropolitan andThe Authority. If you’re anything like me, that’s all you need to hear to know this is something you want to read. If you’re unsure, just ask yourself if you would be interested in a novel about a private detective who is hired by the Chief of Staff to locate the other Constitution, “a secret document privately authored by several of the Founders detailing the real intent of their design for American society.” In the course of his search, he is exposed to underground cultures and practices that make him want to run screaming the other way. Ellis takes great pride in his ability to make you squirm in your seat, and based many of the oddball scenarios in the book on things he found on the internet. If you’re a fan of Ellis’ other work, then I’m sure you’ll get a kick out of this, and if you’re not, then I’m sure you stopped reading back at the rat pissing in the coffee mug.