PUBLIC MARKS with tag interoperability

If you’re a site like Amazon, and you’d lose a lot of money when even 1% of the browser market can’t use your site, I can see wanting to code for this case: you’d want to fall back to server-side code for more or less everything. If you’re a smaller-time developer, though, the marginal benefit from spending another hour on server-side code (another branch in the tree) seems pretty tiny.

This document reports on implementations of the RDFa Syntax and Processing rules [RDFa Syntax]. Such implementations are able to parse an XHTML RDFa document, and extract the embedded RDF graph in order to query, serialise, convert or process it further.

IE7 is a JavaScript library to make Microsoft Internet Explorer behave like a standards-compliant browser. It fixes many HTML and CSS issues and makes transparent PNG work correctly under IE5 and IE6.

The point is that JavaScript developers shouldn’t have to detect and workaround such issues. JavaScript should work the same across all implementations. We believe this is the first step in making JavaScript better. To make it possible to achieve such implementation conformance, the first step is knowing where the divergences are. We in the JScript team are looking into where various browser based implementations diverge, where our engine is incorrect in its interpretation of the specification, what if any de facto compatibility conventions have been reached, and the value of codifying such conventions into the standard. We’ve published the first draft of JScript Deviations from ES3 as a starting point.

I’ve already stopped using ems as a relative unit for layout and sizing and have gone back to pixels because of the zoom for IE7 that works like Opera.

But a standard is different from a policy. A standard is something you add to your tool kit. What a standard gives you is interoperability - the ability for diverse tools to read, write, or communicate in a common language. The key to an effective standard is having a body representing relevant industry leaders that can discuss, approve, and record standards.

Tripoli is a generic CSS standard for HTML rendering. By resetting and rebuilding browser standards, Tripoli forms a stable, cross-browser rendering foundation for your web projects.

In spite of their desire to make us believe that something truly revolutionary had been achieved, Microsoft and Yahoo! have only managed to set the foundation for a larger IM island. A 350 millions inhabitants’ continent perhaps, but an island still.