Web Dev Digest Episode 17
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Welcome to the Web Dev Digest, your daily web development news roundup.
 This is episode number seventeen, for Thursday, July nineteenth, 2007.
 I'm your host, Ara Pehlivanian.
 
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CSS 2.1 is a Candidate Recommendation... again
Five years after the first CSS 2.1 working draft was issued by the World Wide Web Consortium, and three years after it became a Candidate Recommendation, the W3C has announced today that CSS 2.1 is... a Candidate Recommendation... again. Ummm, can anyone write in and explain this to me? You can leave a comment on the web dev digest dot net website on the episode seventeen page.

Firefox co-founders sell startup to Facebook
TechCruch reports that the popular social networking site Facebook has made its first acquisition, a startup named Parakey co-founded by Firebug creator Joe Hewitt. According to the report, the purchase was motivated by Parakey's work on a yet-to-be-released web based operating system. Though that may not be web development news in and of itself, Jonathan Snook points out that Joe Hewitt's work on the popular Firefox web development add-on Firebug was slated to receive support by none other than Yahoo! in the form of a full time engineer working on advancing it. Snook asks, with FaceBook's purchase of Parakey, how does that impact Firebug?


Eric Meyer Workshop in London
Eric Meyer, author of the seminal O'Reilly book CSS:The Definitive Guide will be giving a two-day CSS workshop in London, England this coming August thirteen and fourteen. Seating for the Carson Workshops event is already half sold so if you would like to attend, grab some tickets now. As an added bonus, Meyer promises not to wear his trademark blue-shirt-with-tan-slacks combo again.


Opera security fix and Kestrel announcement
Some news out of Opera Software today. The browser maker has released version 9.22 of its Opera web browser which is a recommended security update. It has also announced that weekly preview releases of Opera 9.5 also known as Kestrel will be out shortly. Some of the new Mac features recently added to cross-platform Kestrel include VoiceOver support, Skin improvements and several performance optimizations. 


McFarlane Prize Nominations Open
And finally, Digital Web Magazine is reporting that nominatons for the 2007 McFarlane Prize have opened up. "This prize for excellence in Australian web design will be awarded to an Australian designer or team for a site launched or significantly upgraded between August 1 2006 and July 31 2007."


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 You've been listening to the Web Dev Digest, your daily web development news roundup.
 This was episode number fifteen, for Thursday, July nineteenth, 2007. I'm Ara Pehlivanian.
 Show notes with links to the news covered in this episode can be found on web dev digest dot net.