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IE8 Beta 1

…is now available to download and test.

According to the blog entry, IE8 is going to be very exciting for web developers. We can finally start ditching the old hacks built for IE7 and other lesser browsers.

It is not mentioned in that post, but IE8 will render in web standards mode by default. This means that [...]

first official IE8 mention

And it’s a good one! The IE team announced in a very good article that IE8 passes the Acid2 test.

The Acid2 test does not test CSS compliance. Instead, it tests that broken CSS is parsed in a consistent manner.

More info about Acid2

Well done Microsoft – let’s hope you keep the information coming (they’ve been notably [...]

variables in css

There is an article over at the Ruby On Rails site about Dynamic CSS. I read through it, and it was pretty cool. It occurred to me that it should be fairly simple to do some of those tricks on-the-fly with ordinary CSS files and a little PHP.

Look at this:

/*
!TEXTCOLOUR #369
!BORDER [...]