“those who lived through the browser wars of the ’90s might think that hell has frozen over, were it not for one small problem: Users still experience plenty of problems on the Web. “

(Via MacWorld.)

A List Apart: Articles: Fluid Grids

Fluid Grids
by ETHAN MARCOTTE

Early last year, I worked on the redesign of a rather content-heavy website. Design requirements were fairly light: the client asked us to keep the organization’s existing logo and to improve the dense typography and increase legibility. So, early on in the design process, we spent a sizable amount of time planning a well-defined grid for a library of content modules.

Over the past few years, this sort of thinking has become more common. Thanks to the advocacy of Mark Boulton, Khoi Vinh, and others, we’ve seen a resurgence of interest in the typographic grid, and how to use it on the web. And frankly, the idea’s been a smash hit: a million CSS frameworks have bloomed, with sundry tools to complement them, each built to make grid-based design even more accessible to the average designer. And why not? Afte”

There’s always been jabs at Twitter for not having a viable business model and the chatter has increased in the current economic climate. In a recent interview Evan Williams, Twitter CEO, said ‘We had planned to focus on revenue in 2010 but that’s no longer the case, so we changed the plan quite a bit… We’ve moved revenue higher on our list of priorities…’.

I believe Twitter, potentially, has an incredible business model.

(Via O’Reilly Radar.)

Now it appears that Google has joined the chorus of web application suppliers who no longer want to support Microsoft’s IE6 browser. IE6 was release back in 2001, over eight gizillion years in internet time.

After coming across a few articles that claimed Google was giving IE6 the boot, the closest I could come to a primary source declaration from Google was in the Supported Browser section of their GMail help section:

The main goal is to come up with some standard sizes for advertisements so the creative department doesn’t need to render the same banner in 5 slightly different sizes & aspect ratios.

Check out their condensed guide including pixel dimensions, file size and animation times.