On January 16, 2008 Sun Microsystems announced it has entered an agreement to acquire MySQL AB, the world’s most popular open source database and part of the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) stack.
“Now that all the major browsers (and many minor ones) have pledged support for Acid2, Ian Hickson has moved on to preparing Acid3 …” Kimberly Blessing, WaSP Co-Lead
Where Acid2 tested static HTML and CSS, Acid3 will concentrate on the dynamic side of the web - ECMAScript and DOM. Although a work in progress (only 84 [...]
If you are interested in learning more about WordPress as a blogging or personal publishing platform, click on the link below to watch a brief (15 minute) video by Michael D. Pollock, CEO of Solostream Web Studio.
http://www.solostream.com/2006/10/30/video-introduction-to-wordpress/
Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager of Microsoft’s IE team announced last December 19th that Internet Explorer 8 passed the Acid2 test:
I’m delighted to tell you that on Wednesday, December 12, Internet Explorer correctly rendered the Acid2 page in IE8 standards mode.
The Acid2 test was developed by the Web Standards Project (WaSP) to help browser vendors evaluate [...]
Here are the totals (as of 4:45 PM) for help requests on the first day of the semester:
Phone calls: 78
Emails: 90
and counting …
The final drafts for the standards and implementation guidelines have been posted on the Illinois Department of Human Services web site. You can review them at:
http://www.dhs.state.il.us/page.aspx?item=33503
Comments, questions and suggestions can be emailed to dhs.accessibility@illinois.gov.
