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There are more than enough hype about more than enough things in the world that don’t really matter and just that…hype. HTML5 is the latest hype in websphere and already has been a cause for fights among titans. However for anyone who loves web, it can’t be helped that HTML5 is at least a novelty and for most part offers things that web designers and developers alike have been dreaming about. So here goes a set of sources that would be useful to anyone interested in the topic.

• Specification
• Showcase
• Browser support
• Already underway
• But not there yet
• In depth
• Tutorial
• Cool charts

Bad news for web designers and developers.

According to the most recent data from California-based Web metrics company Net Applications, 27.2% of all Internet users are still running IE6, making it the most popular version of IE. By comparison, IE7 accounted for 23.1% of all browsers in action last month, while the newest edition, IE8, had a usage share of 12.5%.

Friends don’t let friends use IE6

Given the state of the economy, it is important to recognize the declining value of the United States dollar. Without getting deep into this topic, note the 97% drop in dollar value over the past century. With numerous causes for inflation transpiring, including bailouts, government “stimulus”, and foreign spending, one can only expect a greater loss of purchasing power in the near future. So what specific steps can a web designer take to plan for continuous currency devaluation? The three strategies below can help cut costs in the long-term without sacrificing the level of work and service delivered to clients.

Top 3 Cost-Cutting Strategies for Web Designers

(Thanks for mentioning CurdBee as an option!)

James Edwards on Sitepoint blog looks at 10 cool things which would be possible to do after final nail to IE 6 coffin.

List includes Use child selectors, Use attribute selectors, Trust z-index again, Make full use of 24-bit PNGs and my personal favorite Enjoy ourselves again!

Read the full article

Cufón aims to become a worthy alternative to sIFR text replacements. Rather than depending on Flash and Images it uses canvas and VML (for IE) to render text with different font styles. Further it is painless to configure and works great with large amounts of text.

Give it a try!

> There are plenty of open source applications that can help you
tremendously as a web designer. Open source projects are great not only
because of their price tag (free), but also because of the passionate
community that typically forms around them. In these economic times,
it’s often a worthwhile endeavor to see places where you can conserve,
and open source alternatives are a good place to start looking.

In this article,
you’ll find 30 exceptionally handy open source applications for web
designers.