In Top firms’ websites not ready for IE7, we learn of a “short internal study” to “[compare] the homepages of all one hundred FTSE 100 companies in both IE6 and IE7.” And the conclusion of this “study” is that 13% of the web sites are not ready for IE7. I shite you notsky. They don’t say “IE7 borks on this site and that site,” or “incompatibilities have been found on sites that prevent proper display on IE7.” Nononono. They say that the sites are not ready for IE7. Never mind that the web sites mentioned as having failed are, like for instance in the case of The Sage Group’s, Valid XHTML.

“It is worth pointing out, however, that the general lack of adherence to web standards among the FTSE 100 companies may have insulated them somewhat from IE7’s various bugs and glitches,” said the Etre statement.

While I fail to see the relation between lack of adherence to W3C’s standards and being protected from IE7’s glitches – apparently Etre hasn’t checked the validator either… This is fucking retarded.

See this extract of an Atom feed:

<entry xml:base=’When/200x/2006/07/10/’>
<title>Comments on Camping</title>
<link href=’Gone-Camping’ />
<id>http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/07/10/Gone-Camping</id>
<published>2006-07-10T13:00:00-07:00</published>
[…]</entry>

Bloglines reconstructs the link as http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/Gone-Camping [which fails]. Shouldn’t the reconstructed link be xml:base + link? Or just use id?

Via Standblog, Open Web Korea. Nice design – albeit by Andreas Viklund, not très Korean… – but would have been better had they pushed the envelope a bit and converted to UTF-8… I guess another decade is required for that.

Note the 고발 [file a complaint; report someone] activities, something that is very Korean. I like the idea of reporting official websites that require IE to function – and they’re gonna be fuckin’ busy, pardon mon French, since ActiveX/IE-only web sites are the norm in Korea, not the exception! I am a little more reserved about their planned Hall of Shame!, pointing out personal web sites that are of “low quality”…

It’s nice to see Koreans move toward Open Standards – I’ve noticed a few web sites that are friendly to non-IE browsers, but as far as Firefox, Opera and Safari are concerned, it’s still the dark ages over there. I guess I’ll be watching this site…

Next Tuesday, Kevin Marks of Technorati and Stewart Butterfield of Flickr will be kicking off the inaugural meeting of Tag Tuesday. Tag Tuesday (TaTu) is a monthly meeting organized by and for cutting edge implementers of tagging software, services, standards, and systems, what practical lessons we’ve learned, real-world challenges we’ve encountered, and how we can all work together to empower users to make the most of this tagolution.
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Pointer by my favourite tortoise and Java coder (ain’t too many of those). Sait-il au moins que la tortue, on en fait de la soupe, là où il habite ?

As Jack the Ripper would have said “Who shall I cut on the edge, next?”

Safari now has a tag, a proprietary HTML extension that allows Quartz-style drawing from JavaScript. It was created for Dashboard widgets.

If you specify a canvas width ≤ 54 and a height ≤ 71, Safari appears to use an uninitialized pointer to render the canvas, displaying raw memory as bitmaps.

Here’s an example. rentzsch.com

Only “works” on Safari, of course…