This week’s Zs

* « the validator faq »:http://www.websitedev.de/css/validator-faq.html (« ::: »:http://www.zeldman.com/daily/0603a.shtml#language)
* « Dan Rubin »:http://superfluousbanter.org/projects/zeldman/dwws_booksubnav.html « found a way to force IE5/Mac to display our book site’s CSS sub-nav the way other modern browsers do »
??readers’ proposed CSS tweaks line our email in-box. Between their efforts and our own, we hope to find a solution soon?? (« ::: »:http://www.zeldman.com/daily/0603a.shtml#adobe)
* « Longhorn not earlier than 2005 »:http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2003/06/11.html#a3302 means *no new IE before then*, so « for the next two years, 85% of the web using population will have

# buggy support for CSS float
# no support at all for adjacent sibling selectors
# no hope of PNG transparency unless developers are willing to write proprietary, IE-only code or deploy « sophisticated JavaScript workarounds »:http://www.alistapart.com/stories/pngopacity/ to make IE/Win do what other modern browsers do natively »(« ::: »:http://www.zeldman.com/daily/0603a.shtml#goredbylonghorn)

* « Kalsey’s navigation bar »:http://www.kalsey.com/tools/csstabs/ ??an idea Eric Meyer suggested to us over a year ago, and one that is used to superb effect on Kalsey’s CSS tabs with submenus?? (« ::: »:http://www.zeldman.com/daily/0603a.shtml#minihaha)
* ??Eric could easily create pages that look less than stellar in IE and shrug, “Hey, it works in our browser.” But then he wouldn’t be Eric Meyer?? (« ::: »:http://www.zeldman.com/daily/0603a.shtml#meyer)
* ??A List Apart Magazine returns to the airwaves.?? (« ::: »:http://www.zeldman.com/daily/0603a.shtml#ala157)