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News Wire: Bill Gates on Web Standards


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by Kevin Yank

  • Who Questions Bill Gates’ Commitment to Web Standards?
    Molly Holzchlag was among a number of high-profile bloggers invited to discuss the issues of the day with a number of Microsoft insiders, including Bill Gates himself. What does Gates really think about web standards? Read the transcript and judge for yourself.
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  • Firefox 3.0: Passes Acid 2 CSS Test
    The latest nightly build of Firefox 3.0 passes the Acid 2 test for CSS standards compliance, joining Opera, Konqueror and Safari. Internet Explorer is now the only major browser not to pass the Acid 2 test.
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  • GWT 1.3 Release Candidate is 100% Open Source
    With this latest version, Google has released all components of the Google Web Toolkit (including the previously closed-source compiler and runtime debugging frameworks) under othe Apache 2.0 open source license.
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  • google’s own cornershop
    Sick of generating rounded corner images yourself? Google has a script to do this installed on most of its online services, and for now at least you can simply reference that service to get rounded corner images for your own site!
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This entry was posted on Saturday, December 16th, 2006 at 1:21 am, contains 217 words, and is filed under Industry Links. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed. The views and opinions in this blog post are those of its author.

This post has 3 responses so far

  1. Jimmy Says:
    December 16th, 2006 at 1:47 am

    Internet Explorer is now the only major browser not to pass the Acid 2 test.

    Technically not true since Firefox 3 isn’t going to be out for a long while.

     
  2. Anonymous Says:
    December 19th, 2006 at 3:56 am

    > Internet Explorer is now the only major browser not to pass the Acid 2
    > test.

    Umm…

    Just goes to show you what Bill Gates thinks of web standards, et al doesn’t it?

    Really I don’t even know why M$ even bothers nowadays…

    Dr Livingston

     
  3. lukemeister Says:
    December 30th, 2006 at 11:35 am

    I’ve always figured that Bill Gates thinks web standards are whatever IE does.

     

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