Some of the advantages of CSS3 are that you can now create effects on your page with code that used to require images. Not making calls to the server for your sites decorations can greatly increase page load times. Unfortunately, no versions of Internet Explorer available today can handle these new advances in CSS. IE9 will support most of the new features, but that has yet to be released and since it will only run on newer versions of Windows, developers will have to rely on using images to make their sites look consistent across browsers.

In today's podcast, we discuss...

How I Might Deal with IE6

Panelist: Brandon Manbeck

Eight years ago (almost to the day), Jeffrey Zeldman signaled the dawn of "The CSS Age" when he wrote To Hell With Bad Browsers. Explaining how the use of @import for referencing stylesheets is ignored by Netscape 4 was an important step in shedding the problems related to supporting an ancient browser. Eight. Years.

The opera web browser is the flagship product of Opera Software. It is a web browser that competes directly for market share with Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer and other popular web browsers. It has historically had a minuscule share of the browser market, in part due to its price and partly because it has no way of persuading users; which are satisfied with whatever comes on their computer out of the box. Opera has a very robust version of its web browser for PDAs, cell phones, and other hand held devices called Opera mini.

Acid2 is a test page for web browsers published by the Web Standards Project (WASP). It has been written to help browser vendors make sure their products correctly support features that web designers would like to use. These features are part of existing standards but haven't been consistently supported by major browsers. It is not supposed to resemble a real-world web page and it is not solely designed to test browser support for CSS; it contains complex rules that cascade in the most advanced ways possible.

A web browser is the informal name for a piece of software that can request and display text multimedia from the World Wide Web. The most common web browsers are internet explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Apple Safari for OS-X users. They are all designed to display information on a large graphical monitor, but other web browsers have been specially developed to display textual information only render small screen versions for PDAs or speak the information aloud to a person who has vision problems.