The new IE8 version targeting switch, announced on IEBlog and A List Apart, has been the talk of the web.

Another nice feature from the HTML5 draft specification is now available in the WebKit nightly builds for Mac OS X.

Recently, the W3 Consortium announced a renewed HTML Working Group effort.

For a long time, the HTML standards process has been moribund; the W3C‘s HTML Working Group has focused almost exclusively on XHTML2, a new standard that was highly incompatible with existing practice.

I was pointed to this article about color spaces in Web browsers.

OR, Close your <script> and <canvas> tags!

We have recently switched over to use an engine-based implementation for <input type=text>.  In doing so, our text fields are now able to use many useful css capabilities that weren’t available before.  border-radius, border-image, and background-image are just a few that will now work with our text fields.

I spent a few hours hooking up WebCore’s text rendering engine to SVG, and now we have basic SVG text support going.

SVG has now been enabled by default in nightly builds.

Eric Seidel has just landed support for a new target in the WebCore project that lets you compile an experimental port of KSVG.