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This news piece from Telegraph tells about an experimental website that would change its design (color, fonts, etc.) according to user’s behavior.

Here’s the announcement. What makes me glad the most from this post is this:

Finally with regards to theme and plugin compatibility, we’ve had no reports of any broken themes in this upgrade, which makes sense because we didn’t really change anything core about themes, just added new optional capabilities like Gravatars.

So, it’s safe to say that we can just use this release for local development of future themes. Yay!

Don West nailed it:

Public criticism from your competitors is the best publicity you can get. When they point out their competitors’ weaknesses it ALWAYS causes people to find the weaknesses in their own products and services and investigate the competitors’ product. Many switch to the competitor.

The moral of the story is: Keep your mouth(and keyboard) shut, and make sure your product is better than theirs by a long shot. The market will decide who is best and score is kept by sales…or users in the case of OS software.

You can read the announcement here, or go straight to the download page this way.

Please note that installing the beta will overwrite your already installed IE (7, most likely), so you might want to think twice before doing it. There’s no standalone version / installation method available yet, but give it time. In the meanwhile, there are Virtual PC images with different version if IE available for free, so there’s an alternative.

I was about to make a blog post about this, but I’m really, really glad that Performancing did it first. It’s way more detailed than I could ever hope to make. Read 48 Unique Ways To Use WordPress at Performancing.com.

And why am I not zeroing out deprecated elements, like center? Because they shouldn’t even be in the markup. The way to handle deprecated elements is with something like Marco Battilana’s Big Red Angry Text, not silently neutering them.

I somehow always preferred Eric Meyer’s Reset instead of from others like YUI’s Reset, and it’s a good update that of course will be used.

You are using a browser that is not fully supported. Some features may not work too well, but you are welcome to have a look around.

Other web apps usually tell users with non-supported browsers to go away, as if it’s the user’s fault. Picasa’s approach is much more lovely.