Did anyone notice the crowd Palin resigned in front of?
∞ XHTML 2 Working Group Expected to Stop Work End of 2009, W3C to Increase Resources on HTML 5
∞ 'The Informant' Trailer
Google: Let’s Make the Web Faster
Something we can all get behind.
∞ smush.it
Performance just got a little bit easier. Optimizing images by hand is time consuming and painful. Smush it does it for you. Smushit.com is a service that goes beyond the limitations of Photoshop, Fireworks & Co. It uses image format specific non-lossy image optimization tools to squeeze the last bytes out of your images - without changing their look or visual quality. You’ll get a report of how many bytes you can save by optimizing your images and all the changed images as a single zip for download.
David Kaneda explains:
Apparently, when I get behind something, I really get behind it. Okay people, here’s the deal: Outlook 2007, a very popular email client for Windows, shipped with the same terrible web rendering engine built into Word. The ironic part is that Outlook 2000 actually had a more advanced engine (difference shown above). As the site explains:
This means for the next 5 years your email designs will need tables for layout, have no support for CSS like float and position, no background images and lots more.
As a developer, programming for Outlook 2007 is an exercise in futility. It’s like programming for Netscape Navigator 4. Do you remember what things looked like in NN4? No — because you’ve blocked it out, just like everyone else.
HTML emails can be pretty cool — Don’t let them go the way of the Quagga. Help spread the word!
