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Fun With Wordage

It’s back. As if it wasn’t ridiculous the first time, we get to go through this again.

Create something.
Don’t enforce for years, silently awaiting wide deployment, then magically appear and start collecting $$$. (can you say GIF)?
Profit.

Oh boy is stuff like this just insane at this point. It’s going to be interesting to see [...]

Macworld notes that the W3C objects to the Copyright Office Browser Compatibility plan (I mentioned this a few weeks ago). There are two particular quotes I wanted to share:
While stressing that the W3C is not criticizing Internet Explorer, the W3C officials said the office would be placing limitations on users of the Mac [...]

According to the Copyright Office:
At this point in the process of developing the Copyright Office’s system for online preregistration, it is not entirely clear whether the system will be compatible with web browsers other than Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 5.1 and higher. Filers of preregistration applications will be able to employ these Internet Explorer browsers [...]

An interesting article, that shows why using a better browser is an important way to keep your computer secure. Perhaps we need to tell these people to stop using IE and start using Firefox. Nudge, nudge, [elbow in the ribs].
First downloads were the big risk. Then email became the big target. [...]

Via Fark, Microsoft’s Anti-Spyware beta (mentioned earlier) removes Internet Explorer.
Now if only they patch it to install Firefox.

It appears initially after the announcement that Yahoo! would start testing a new layout, they only offered it to IE users. Now it appears it’s enabled for Mozilla/Netscape users.
Should note it’s more standards compliant.

Contradicting a few days ago, according to The Channel Insider, Microsoft will be releasing some IE patches for non-XP systems.

…But company officials privately told a select group of developers earlier this year of plans to port some of the IE-specific fixes to the version of IE 6 for Windows 2000 (Service Pack 5 update).
It also [...]

We need to take this, and get working. ASAP. Lets take a quick look at this:
Most companies are still using Windows 2000. The cost of upgrading hundreds, or thousands of workstations is astronomical. Not to mention testing (and potentially upgrading) other internal software to be compatible with it, and possible hardware [...]

A grreat FAQ on XHTML is available, and I encourage all fellow web developers to read up. I found a few interesting things:
First read this:

strong>Why is it allowed to send XHTML 1.0 documents as text/html?
XHTML is an XML format; this means that strictly speaking it should be sent with an XML-related media type (application/xhtml+XML, [...]

It’s just wrong isn’t it?

From Netscape.com approx. 10:30 PM EST