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. Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:38:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The W3C Markup Validator is an excellent tool. If you're a serious web developer, using the Validator is probably a routine by now. It's also very reliable when it says you have an error. However, there are plenty of cases where the Validator will say a page is valid even ... http://www.webdevout.net/tidings/2008/06/22/dont-believe-everything-the-validator-tells-you/ You can check it out here: Standards support information with Firefox 3. In terms of the percentages, the improvements aren't staggering. However, we now have access to display:inline-block, display:inline-table, more properties on generated content, white-space: pre-wrap, and negative z-index values, which are very welcome additions. Some of the CSS improvements were parts ... http://www.webdevout.net/tidings/2008/06/16/firefox-3-css-and-html-support-information-available/ If you haven't heard, there have been several large wildfires in California this week. Governor Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency in Butte County where several independently-started wildfires have destroyed homes and forced thousands of people to evacuate. There's currently no evidence of malice, just a mix of unusually low ... http://www.webdevout.net/tidings/2008/06/14/california-fires/ Yes, I know. I'll be testing its standards support, too. Firefox 3 will be released this coming Tuesday, the 17th. I won't have the standards support information done yet for either browser, but I hope to finish the CSS sections this weekend and put that up by Tuesday. http://www.webdevout.net/tidings/2008/06/12/opera-95-released/ It's browser testing season again. Since the first Firefox 3 release candidate has been released, I will begin testing its standards support and adding it to the site. As usual, I'm going to start with the CSS section and post an update when the initial test data is complete. Rather than ... http://www.webdevout.net/tidings/2008/05/26/firefox-3-rc-1/