The fact that IE8 beta 2 has been released is obviously very important to web developers. Times have changed; Microsoft is now aggressively chasing full CSS 2.1 compliance.

But it also raises questions. Will the new IE be a serious competitor of Firefox, Safari, and Opera when it comes to web standards implementation? What more can we expect from IE8 final?

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IE8 beta 2 has been released. Go get it; let's see what works and what doesn't. See also the release notes.

I'm currently downloading it; more news when I have it.

Update: CSS compatibility table updated. I'm especially enthousiastic about the support for box-sizing without the -ms- prefix.

Update 2: Core, HTML, and CSS OM View tables also updated. Analysis will follow later, but I'm quite happy with the progress.

The preparations for Fronteers 2008 proceed apace; it’s likely to become an excellent conference. (Amsterdam, 11 and 12 September.)

Ticket sale has meanwhile started; unfortunately there’s a bug in the English version that requires everybody to use the Dutch one I linked to. My apologies for the bug, but this is something the ticket system vendor has to solve (and is solving, if rumours are to be believed).

Unfortunately we had one cancellation: Nate Koechley had a clash of schedules. Fortunately Andy Clarke and Anne van Kesteren have agreed to host sessions (on CSS positioning and the <video> element in HTML5, respectively), so I believe the conference will survive Nate’s absence.

I personally am swamped in work (if you think organising a conference is something you do in your spare time I advise you to upgrade your brain), but I believe the main thrust is behind me now. With only a few relatively minor things to arrange it looks as if the conference is set to go.

Hope to see you there.

It is with pardonable pride that Fronteers announces its second yearly conference: Fronteers 2008.

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Yesterday I walked into the local phone store because the “Temporarily Unavailable” sign had been removed from their “Get your iPhone here” poster. To my utter surprise they had six (6!) entire iPhones for sale, and no, there was no waiting list. I walked back home with a shiny new gadget, impatient to start testing it.

Meanwhile I’ve done some tests; now it’s time for a report.

Before we continue, let’s get the bad CSS news out of the way: Safari on the iPhone does not support position: fixed. Certain Other Browsers were ridiculed for this lack; Safari won’t be.

I’ve updated the CSS Table, the Core Table and the Events Table. In this entry I’m going to talk about JavaScript events on the iPhone. They’re — interesting.

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