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Microsoft to implement HTML5 in IE9?

With the lat­est releases of Opera, Google Chrome and Fire­fox con­tin­u­ing to push the bound­aries of the web, the once-dominant Inter­net Explorer is look­ing less and less rel­e­vant every day.

But we should expect Microsoft to go on the offen­sive at its upcom­ing MIX 2010 devel­oper con­fer­ence in Las Vegas, where, it has been spec­u­lated, the com­pany will demon­strate the first beta builds of Inter­net Explorer 9 and pos­si­bly offer a pre­view release of the browser to devel­op­ers. Sev­eral clues point to the pos­si­bil­ity that the next ver­sion of IE will include broad sup­port for HTML5 ele­ments, vec­tor graph­ics and emerg­ing CSS stan­dards. If Microsoft plays its cards right in Vegas, IE 9 could be the release that helps IE get its groove back in the web browser game.

Check out the full article!

This works very well on web servers capa­ble of using PHP. Per­son­ally I have no need to develop for users who use IE on per­sonal sites. Sec­ondly, most developers/technically inclined/apple/non-braindead peo­ple try and avoid IE.

This script has  advan­tage that it doesn’t require CGI exe­cu­tion or redi­rec­tion, and can’t be cir­cum­vented by know­ing the URL for the actual page you are try­ing to go to. It’s pretty sim­ple, actu­ally. Place this code at or near the top of your code, before any out­put has occurred.
<?php
if (eregi("MSIE",getenv("HTTP_USER_AGENT")) ||
eregi("Internet Explorer",getenv("HTTP_USER_AGENT"))) {
Header("Location: http://www.domain.com/ie_reject.html");
exit;
}
?>

Recently I was rein­stalling Fire­fox, because I was try­ing to check if rein­stalling it is going to ruin my pro­file (like it did last time) or not. After all that was done and I opened up Fire­fox and went to browse around I noticed that the cur­sor started blink­ing on the screen.

Now, since I’ve played around quite a bit with Fire­fox, I didn’t panic because I instantly knew that it was a fea­ture called ‘caret brows­ing’. The main rea­son that Fire­fox has this fea­ture is that you can select text with your keyboard.

If you want to get rid of this the solu­tion is sim­ple… press F7.. if you press F7 it should work on your mac too unless you’ve mapped it to some­thing else! And if you want to turn it on again then you need to do the same as well. So now when you see blink­ing cur­sors on the screen when you are brows­ing through web pages don’t freak out… it’s just caret browsing.

Great arti­cle from Dries Buy­taert. And very true. Dru­pal is explod­ing. A major­ity of users prob­a­bly browse a few dru­pal sites a day. As Dries goes on to say:

Why aren’t we train­ing more Dru­pal devel­op­ers? I’d think there is a real oppor­tu­nity to make money as a Dru­pal train­ing busi­ness for at least a num­ber of reasons:

  • It addresses a real prob­lem. Because of Drupal’s con­tin­ued growth, peo­ple are strug­gling to find the Dru­pal tal­ent they need.
  • Dru­pal is grow­ing in the enter­prise, and one can expect a strong desire to buy Dru­pal train­ing in the enter­prise. I wouldn’t be sur­prised if big play­ers like IBM, Capgem­ini and Accen­ture, will start to offer some Dru­pal train­ing to their enter­prise cus­tomers. This could even result in a cou­ple of Dru­pal train­ing com­pa­nies being acquired.
  • A train­ing busi­ness can be a more scal­able and more lucra­tive busi­ness than a con­sult­ing business.
  • There is a wide dis­par­ity between those that can assem­ble Dru­pal sites ver­sus those who truly under­stand the con­cepts and prin­ci­ples behind the code. At some point, parts of the mar­ket will see value in Dru­pal cer­ti­fi­ca­tion pro­grams. It is a mat­ter of time, but when it hap­pens, it will enable Dru­pal train­ing com­pa­nies to build a stronger brand.

This is a prob­lem that we need to fix. We need more world-class Dru­pal tal­ent to ful­fill the demand and to let Dru­pal reach its poten­tial. We need a well-rounded ecosys­tem that pro­vides more Dru­pal training.

Check out his highly infor­ma­tive site for the full arti­cle: Dries Buy­taert.

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