Links of Interest (May 9th 2008 through May 29th 2008)

IETester: IETester is a tool that runs the rendering and javascript engines from IE8b1, IE7, IE6, and IE5.5 in a single process so you can see how each one mangles your site in it’s own unique way (currently in beta).
Tags: IETester, , webdesign,
POC : Implementing HTML 5 Video Element using JavaScript and Flash: A proof of concept allowing use of the ‘video’ tag from the HTML5 draft spec, and having it work, even though browsers don’t yet support it.
Tags: standards, html5, webdesign, hacks, javascript, flash, video,
Audible.com and Blackstone Audio Royalties: SFFAudio shares some information from Robert J. Sawyer on the royalties he receives from audiobooks.
Tags: Blackstone Audio, audible.com, Audiobooks, Robert J. Sawyer, royalties,
Characteristic Confusion: While investigating line-height Eric Meyer used font-family: Webdings to display “Oy!” (Webdings doesn’t contain ‘O’, ‘y’, or ‘!’). Firefox 3 unexpectedly displayed “Oy!”, which, it seems, is technically correct, leaving him asking “which is less correc
Tags: CSS, font-family, line-height, Eric Meyer, unicode, webdesign,
Growl for Windows - alpha now available: Growl is one of the three apps that excited me enough to buy a Mac, and it’s one I really miss when I’m on my Windows box.
Tags: Growl, software, windows, notification,