http://feeds.simonwillison.net/2008-03-05T18:28:20+00:00Simon Willison2008-03-05T18:28:20+00:002008-03-05T18:28:20+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Mar/5/internet/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/ie8/readiness/DevelopersNew.htm">Internet Explorer 8 Readiness Toolkit</a></strong></p> The new built-in development tools look similar enough to Firebug to make me very happy. Also of interest: Selectors API (for fast getElementsBySelector), CSS 2.1 support, support for XHTML style namespaces in HTML, an interesting Web Slices feature based on the hAtom microformat and 6 connections per host (up from 2) which should make Comet easier. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/comet">comet</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/css">css</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/hatom">hatom</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ie8">ie8</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript">javascript</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/microformats">microformats</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/namespaces">namespaces</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/selectors">selectors</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/standards">standards</a></p>