Microsoft to launch beta of Internet Explorer 8

CNet reports today that Microsoft will soon be making a beta of IE8 available. From CNet:
Microsoft will shortly make available the test version of Internet Explorer 8, which is set for final release in the first half of this year.
The Web site ActiveWin on Monday published the contents of a beta invitation, which said Microsoft [...]

IE8 Round Table

The Web Standards Project has posted an IE8 round table discussion with Chris Wilson, the IE8 platform architect, Aaron Gustafson, and a couple of others on the proposed meta tag.  This is really the first explanation we have heard from anyone on the IE Team about the opt-in behavior since it was announced.
The funny thing [...]

How to Transition to a CMS

For many web developers, the idea of transitioning to a content management system (CMS) is both appealing and frightening. It’s appealing because of how easy it would be to manage once everything is converted. It’s frightening because when you have a large, mostly static site, transitioning to a database-driven CMS requires a lot of work, [...]

Open-source CMS and UA: The floor is open

So we’re kicking off an exploratory phase into selecting and centrally supporting a UA-wide standardized open-source content management system.  As time goes by, it’s more and more apparent that our campus as a whole needs a central option for maintaining web content, particularly since we’re so decentralized in terms of how web sites are created and [...]

The cost-benefit of coding for different web browsers

John Resig wrote an interesting blog post yesterday about how much time to devote tweaking web sites to work with all major web browsers. He determines a browser’s “relevance” by posing the question, “Is this browser cost beneficial to us supporting it?”
Resig rates the browsers like this:

IE 6
IE 7
Firefox 2
Safari 2 & Safari 3 (tie)
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