Link dump: June 29, 2006
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3
- Download the latest beta version of the IE browser. Read about user experience improvements on IEBlog.
- Living with web-based software
- Tim Grahl discusses the benefits of web-based software applications.
- Google Checkout
- Google’s new payment service with the added ability to track all of your purchases in one interface. Register a card, use Google Checkout to pay for online purchases. Ties into Google Base and AdWords and a number of participating web sites (including Bluefly). Related analysis: Why Google Is Doing Checkouts?
- Microformats, PHP and hKIT
Last week, Drew McLellan released version 0.2 of his toolkit, hKit, for extracting and parsing microformats in PHP.
Here the Zend Developer Zone folks interview McClellan.
Were it not for the Mozilla Project there would be no IE 7.0. Forgive me if I’m not bubbling over w/excitement.
I completely agree. But for 90+% of web users (in the States, at least), IE is king. Better for web devs to be prepared for the coming changes IMO.
And just about anything is better than the asserific CSS renderer in IE6. The sooner IE6 dies the better.