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While the community argued over X-UA-Compatible or X-IE-VERSION-FREEZE, depending on which side of the fence you sit, the W3C published two new and important documents:

Moments ago the joint effort of the W3C HTML WG and WHATWG resulted in publication of two documents in the W3C Technical Report space: HTML 5 and HTML 5 differences from HTML 4. I think I can safely say that the WHATWG community is very happy with the W3C publishing HTML 5 as a First Public Working Draft. Many thanks to all involved!

It is great to see this actually getting out there. It is very fun indeed to look at the new elements and think about how you would use the likes of <dialog>, <command>, <meter>, and finally being able to do things like input type=”datetime|datetime-local|date|month|week|time|number|range|email|url”.

It feels like semantics are being added in. The generality of div class=”whatever” is all well and good, but for the very common situations, I am looking forward to using type=”email” and having the browser take care of validation, and using my address book to pick through.

Via Ajaxian

html 5, Web Standards

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• Conditional Comments

Conditional Comments are basically a new set of comment-like tags that IE 5+ supports. These tags look very much like the good old comment tag and in fact are treated as such by all browsers except IE, in which they operate a little more intelligently. Using Conditional Comments, you can selectively “comment out” any portion of your page in a way that only IE interprets the containing content, or the other way around.

This is a good and valid alternative to invalid browser specific CSS hacks we used ealier.

<!--[if IE]>
You are using Internet Explorer.
<![endif]-->

<!--[if IE 5]>
You are using Internet Explorer 5.
<![endif]-->

<!--[if IE 5.0]>
You are using Internet Explorer 5.0.
<![endif]-->

<!--[if IE 5.5]>
You are using Internet Explorer 5.5.
<![endif]-->

<!--[if IE 6]>
You are using Internet Explorer 6.
<![endif]-->

<!--[if IE 7]>
You are using Internet Explorer 7.
<![endif]-->

<!--[if gte IE 5]>
You are using Internet Explorer 5 and up.
<![endif]-->

<!--[if lt IE 6]>
You are using Internet Explorer lower than 6.
<![endif]-->

<!--[if lte IE 5.5]>
You are using Internet Explorer lower or equal to 5.5.
<![endif]-->

<!--[if gt IE 6]>
You are using Internet Explorer greater than 6.
<![endif]-->

<!--[if !IE]>
You are NOT using IE.
<![endif]-->

Operators supported by Conditional Comments

Operator syntax	Description
!	The “not” operator.
lt	The “less than” operator.
lte	The “less than or equal to” operator.
gt	The “greater than” operator.
gte	The “greater than or equal to” operator.

conditional comments, CSS

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Open will be the hot buzzword: OpenID, OAuth, OpenSocial, and more.

Zen Habits Content Goes Open.

Lucky for me I registered openpathit.com way back when I started believing in this movement.

Some great inspirations on the use typography for web

LifeHacker has a nice article on 'Top 10 Google Products You Forgot All About' which reminds us some of the Google Products that we are less familiar with. Even some we haven't heard about it at all. I first came across 'Flight Simulator in Google Earth' and 'Google SketchUp' after reading this article. This list is just the Top10, so there are still some interesting products that we have missed out..

The author of the article says:
This was a tough list to winnow down, as Google's full product list is long and prodigious. In fact, we're still having regrets about leaving Patent Search, Google Moon, and Google Mars off the list. Update: I'm particularly regretful about not including Grand Central or Google SMS, too.

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Simple Facebook style lightbox.