http://www.webdevout.net/tidings Updates on the march of progress. A weblog about web design, standards, web browsers, and the overall health of the Web. Fri, 28 Jun 2013 13:38:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today, someone asked me why I had deleted my last few posts here. I didn't. It turns out, during a series of server moves, VMWare updates, and other shifting around, somehow the system clock got set back to January and NTP wasn't kicking in. As a result, the posts made ... http://www.webdevout.net/tidings/2009/07/24/missing-posts/ Microsoft finally removed the more insulting lines from their Australian $10,000 campaign, but they also released a “Get The Facts” campaign apparently comparing a future version of IE 8 with some phantom versions of Firefox and Chrome invented by Microsoft for this campaign. Security Yes for IE 8, no for Firefox and ... http://www.webdevout.net/tidings/2009/06/23/microsoft-continues-their-self-destructive-campaigns/ In case you haven't noticed, I haven't exactly made a lot of progress on the standards support testing. And I don't anticipate that changing any time soon. I don't have much time outside my day job (which has been increasingly demanding in the last couple of months), and the free ... http://www.webdevout.net/tidings/2009/06/17/oh-is-this-web-devout-site-still-around/ Seeing this makes me really glad I didn't take that job with Microsoft. http://www.microsoft.com/australia/ie8/competition/ Seriously, I don't know if you're trying to be funny, but it comes across as really dickish, especially to those of us who'd rather not use Windows. Update 2009-06-17: It looks like Microsoft took it down. Here's TechCrunch's article ... http://www.webdevout.net/tidings/2009/06/17/wtf-microsoft/ I just realized today that I hadn't seen any Secunia vulnerability updates in a long time. I knew they had done some site redesign work, and I figured they just changed the URL of the RSS feed. So I sat down at my computer to find it, but there didn't ... http://www.webdevout.net/tidings/2009/03/31/secunia-stupidly-removed-their-rss-feed/