Tales from the Evil Empire

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OpenAjax requests comments on browser wishlist
The OpenAjax Alliance has been working with some of the top Ajax developers on a wishlist that aims at gathering and prioritizing the development features that we need the most from next generation browsers. The process is completely open and Wiki-based...
IE8 to look forward: the Evil Empire listened
I've said some time ago that I personally would have preferred if IE8 was in standard mode by default , that it made more sense in the long run at the price of moderate suffering in the short term. Well, it seems like announcing the "meta-tag"...
Getting absolute coordinates from a DOM element
For some reason, there is no standard API to get the pixel coordinates of a DOM element relative to the upper-left corner of the document. APIs only exist to get coordinates relative to the offset parent. Problem is, it's very important to get those coordinates...
A honest recap of the IE8 meta-tag controversy
This will affect all Web developers, which is precisely why the debate is very heated. Anyway, here's a honest recap of the issue. I tend to agree with the author's conclusion although that is obvisouly not the position of Microsoft... http://arstechnica...
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