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Since I redesigned this blog only a couple months ago, I didn’t really take part in the CSS Reboot this year. But I did make some minor changes to the layout. Gone is the sidebar (which I was never in love with); I’ve got a new section at the bottom of each page to replace it. Also: after experimenting with sIFR many times in the past, I’ve finally taken the plunge and deployed it on this site. (I’ll continue to tweak over the next few days, so wonkiness might ensue.)

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John Dvorak wants Microsoft to give up on IE. I found this on del.icio.us/popular — I really hope that doesn’t mean that people are taking John Dvorak seriously, for once. Internet Explorer isn’t a bad browser because it’s made by Microsoft. They’re capable of making a browser as good as Firefox, or at least one with a rendering engine as good as Gecko. They simply haven’t yet. Dvorak gets paid to daydream, but I don’t have the time; I get paid to make my code work in IE. I can’t make it go away by closing my eyes.

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Over the weekend I picked up another crackpot project — inspired by PlotKit, I resolved to build a lightweight API (based upon Prototype) for doing client‐side charting with the canvas tag. This could be seriously useful at work, so tomorrow I’ll find out just how well ExplorerCanvas works.

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Is it me, or does the process of downloading a single file from any project hosted on SourceForge take about nine clicks too many?

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Notability

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Online identity scholar danah boyd, whose legal name is devoid of capital letters, had to argue on her own Wikipedia article’s talk page to correct its use of mixed case. Wikipedia policy, it was argued, tends to take its cue from the media (who usually foul the name up themselves).…

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Web 2.oo

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I really don’t know whether Webaroo is useful or not; and, to be honest, it’s not their fault that I suddenly decided this was the last straw. But I’d have to make flash cards and study them for days before I could distinguish between Asoboo, Cluckoo, Gumshoo, Orangoo, Picaboo, Polloo,…

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At work, I’ve started to test stuff in IE7 in addition to Firefox and IE6; this has forced me to figure out how to pass certain CSS rules to all versions of IE and nothing else. (Virtually all known CSS hacks for IE have been fixed in version 7.) I know conditional comments are usually the way to go, but what if you need to override just one or two rules? Not worth the trouble of creating a separate stylesheet, in my opinion. After some hunting around just now, I realized that IE’s expression property is what I want: instead of postion: relative; one can do position: expression('relative');. Tell your friends!

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Mark Pilgrim has returned from his blogging sabbatical, which he seemingly spent vacationing off the face of Earth. (Or raising his “child.” Or something.) I’ve missed his rhetoric.