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Microsoft yielding to IE standards pressure? | CNET News.com

So you must have heard by now that Microsoft realized that it’s an incredibly ridiculous idea to wait until Longhorn is released for a new version of Internet Explorer. It gets even better, as they’ve apparently realized that adding proper standards support to IE is a good idea that web developers will like. Can you believe that the IE dev team had actually given the excuse, “If we updated IE then web developers would have to change their markup and CSS to work with the new version,” as a reason not to update? No, sirs, the only thing we’d have to change would be to take out all the lousy hacks we’ve had to come up with to get IE to display things properly. I suppose it finally hit them, in a brilliant flash, that if they made IE compliant it would render just like all of the other mainstream browsers: properly!

NYPL Digital Gallery

The New York Public Library has opened a digital gallery of images digitized from their collections. Currently, they have about 275,000 images, and they’re working toward at least 500,000. It’s worth much more than a cursory glance for the incredible amount of culture the gallery contains. This is the kind of thing you visit to check out and get lost in for an hour or two.