Jon Galloway
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[MIX06] Making Your Site Look Great in IE7
Web developers have come up with a variety of techniques for dealing with a quirky, stagnant browser that continued to dominate the market for the past few years. Most chose the low road, doing whatever it took to look good in IE and ignoring the other browsers. Those who tried to build standards compliant sites relied on a slew of CSS hacks to include adjustments for IE without affecting other browsers. -
[MIX06] WPF/E
WPF/E (Windows Presentation Framework Everywhere) is conceptually similar to Flash. It allows for rich client functionality in the browser through the use of a browser plugin. It supports audio and video, vector graphics (2D only), etc. It was announced at the PDC in 2005.
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[MIX06] Day 2 - ATLAS
Atlas is an AJAX system for use with ASP.NET. Here are a few interesting notes from the Atlas session if, like me, you're generally aware of Atlas but haven't really dug into it that much.
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[Mix06] Web 2.0 needs InfoCard a lot more than AJAX
I'm watching a Mix06 panel on Digital Identity with Johannes Ernst (NetMesh), Kim Cameron (MS), Stefan Brands (Crendentica), Paul Trevithick (Social Physics), and Hillary Ward (Citigroup). I'm finishing a post I started on Sunday; I've been interested in digital identity for over a year now, when I heard Kim Cameron interviewed on The Gillmor Gang.
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The current IE7 B2 Preview is stable for website testing
The IE team announced that the IE7 B2 Preview build available online is ready for use in testing site rendering. The feature list frozen, and the rendering engine is solid and won't change between now and release anymore.
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Siloist!
Accusing someone of not allowing access to their proprietary data is the Web 2.0 equivalent to calling them a racist.
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[Mix06] Day One Summary
The highlight was the discussion between Tim O'Reilly and Bill Gates. This was unscripted, casual, and really interesting to watch. Some quotes and themes:
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OPML 2.0 Will Support Includes
OPML is a simple outline format which has been most commonly used to manage RSS feed lists. The problem I've run into is that it's a static document, so the feed list needs to be manually updated. I subscribe to a lot of feeds, many of them on group blog sites. It would be great to be able to subscribe to an OMPL link and automatically get any newly added feeds in my aggregator.