There’s an interesting account of a recent round-table discussion between representatives of the Microsoft, Mozilla, Opera browser-developement teams about the possible future introduction of a <video> HTML tag amongst other things. All under the moderation of Douglas Crockford from Yahoo!

Given the increasingly rich nature of the net it makes for interesting reading.

You’ll find details on Bertrand Le Roy’s ASP.NET AJAX/Atlas weblog here. It

Apropos of nothing, I discovered that the Wii uses Opera as its browser technology from this discussion. I’m not sure why this brightened my day, but it did.

On 20th November Microsoft quietly released the 1.0 version of their ASP.NET CSS Friendly Control Adapters. A rather nifty set of extensions to ASP.NET bundled together in the form of a series of C# and VB project templates in a .vsi file. The adapters modify the HTML output that ASP.NET creates by default when rendering markup for server-side controls. More specifically, it removes ASP.NET’s use of the <table> tag and replaces it with the much more CSS- (and user-) friendly alternative of nested <ul> tags which make the output of your server-side controls both easier to style and much more accessible to users with screen-readers or limited browsing capabilities.*