Microsoft has released a beta of Internet Explorer 8.0
Internet Explorer 8.0 is a shift from previous versions in that it focuses heavily on complying with Web standards.
Isn’t that what they said last time? Support for HTML5 but not XHTML2- sounds like they just forced the industry’s hand.

So I’ve been using Simplify Media for a month now, and it’s worked out great. First, the weird tag issue I was experiencing before actually has nothing to do with Simplify Media and instead has something to do with my iTunes configuration. Though I’ve yet to figure out how to rectify this. I do, however, […]

Last night I installed Simplify Media on my home computer, and this morning I installed it at work. If you’re not already familiar, it’s a free application for sharing your iTunes library over the internet. So far I really like it.
But it has a couple quirks, it doesn’t actually share your library, it shares […]

Microsoft has always had two big strikes against them:

1. Microsoft builds everything in their own crippled formats.
2. It’s appearing that Microsoft will never really embrace web standards, which means approximately 90% of web users must suffer as a result.

At my first job I worked in-house in an enterprise level environment where we were forced to rely on Microsoft’s mostly unreliable junk. IIS would always inexplicably serve users the wrong image. As a designer, trying to build a website in the Visual Studio IDE is like trying to decipher hieroglyphics. We were slowed down by the constant MSDN and licensing issues.

At my previous job we had a partnership with a web hosting company using Windows servers. It was a huge, crippling burden. We were constantly developing solutions that were already available in the open source community. Essentially we were passing this cost on to our clients in more expensive hosting, and longer development times with more bugs in a language that simply didn’t offer as much documentation. And let me tell you, .Net is practically inapproachable if you don’t come from a development background, it’s like building in the dark.

The Sartiorialist has become one of my new favorite daily reads:

I always felt that there was a disconnect between what I was selling in the showroom and what I was seeing real people (really cool people) wearing in real life.
Thoughtful critiques of Racist and classist advertising. Good to know I wasn’t the only one a […]