Tuesday, August 02, 2005

Lots happening in the IT world...

How many buttons should a computer mouse have?

Apple is coming out with a "multi - button" mouse...so to speak...even as it continues to maintain its one piece does it all design...
Continuing to remain at the cutting edge of user experience, the mouse will have five sensors, including touch sensors - to pick up left and right mouse clicks, a magnetic sensor to track movement for scrolling (that will allow for even diagonal scroll), and side-mounted sensors that act as a fourth button when the mouse is squeezed.

Internet Explorer 7 won't pass the ACID2 test

ACID2 examines a browser's support for W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) recommendations including CSS1 (Cascading Style Sheets), HTML4 and PNG (Portable Network Graphics) . As of now only Opera comes close to meeting these standards... It has been Microsoft's tradition almost - not to let standards come in their way...so it is not surprising that they are so far behind the others on this...
The test doesn't matter to ordinary users all that much but it is very crucial for web developers trying to have a common interface across browsers.

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