Oct 27
I saw here that the Microsoft Internet Explorer team sent the Firefox team a cake in celebration of Firefox 2.0’s completion. A bit odd, but I suppose if you don’t try to read into it too much it was a nice gesture from one group of developers to another — after all, who else could appreciate the painful march to a browser code release like a bunch of people who just recently did the same thing?
See? I’m trying hard not to make a snarky comment. Not everybody at Redmond throws chairs and rubs their hands together gleefully while hatching sinister plots to take over teh Intarweb. 
Still, I have to wonder…will the friendly relationship still exist a year from now, when Firefox 2.x and IE 7.x are the dominant browsers and each team is pushing hard to outdo the other?
Oct 19
It’s official: Internet Explorer 7 has been officially released. I hope that this marks the beginning of a series of reasonably frequent and substantial improvements…to not just CSS support but more evolutionary additions such as SVG support. I can’t help but think that an aggressive IE will spur other browser developers on so we see the kind of competition and innovation we saw in the mid-90s.
Oct 05
I ignored my blog, of course.
Well, that and worked most of the summer like most adults.
I was happy to see, however, that sanity prevailed at Microsoft regarding IE7′s name. I had bitched about their previous plan of calling one version IE7 and one IE7+, and I guess I wasn’t alone. While it was — and still is – a petty issue, we sure as hell don’t need any more confusion when it comes to the Web.
Case in point: about a month ago, in the space of a week two colleagues asked me the question “are Java and JavaScript related?” The answer is no — but the damage caused by Netscape Corporation in the mid-90s continues today because of a half-brained attempt to capitalize on the Java hype at the time.