I heard that when asked who knew what the "Open Web" meant at a recent conference, hardly anyone put their hands up. Those that often think that they do understand it, understand it at a gut level. Brad Neuberg has been thinking about this, and...

Chris Double recently announced that Firefox is edging closer to supporting the Video and Audio elements; the front-end code is checked into the trunk and the back-end video decoders are close behind. In an interesting mash-up, Chris applied his Video patches to the Rob O'Callahan Firefox branch we discussed earlier to produce some wild real-time video [...]...

What's the greater of these evils: contorting site designs around the standard Web-safe fonts, using images to render type, or relying on sIFR to render type with Flash? Who knows, but man, it sure would be nice if we could reliably use any font we wanted in our web work. And, as it turns out, IE4+ [...]...

If there's a single experience that bonds all Web developers, it is the incomprehensible joy of wasting hours of our lives supporting IE6. The quasi-palindromic Dionysios Synodinos (alright, it's pretty far from reversible, but there's got to be a good anagram in there) over at InfoQ has put together a fun piece discussing wither IE6. [...]...

Adam DuVander over at WebMonkey has compiled a list of their five favorite Firebug extensions. The ever-popular YSlow tops the list, but to that they add: Firecookie for easy access to cookie information FirePHP to integrating server-provided PHP debugging information with the Firebug UI Pixel Perfect for overlaying mock-ups on top of the real thing to ensure you've [...]...