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Netscape Browser to Die a Quiet Death in February 2008 | Compiler from Wired.com

…though its legacy will continue to live on in Firefox.

Excerpt from The Los Angeles Times:

On Jan. 1, a year after its announced re-branding, CourtTV will become TruTV. The tag line “Not reality. Actuality” means the network will continue broadening its reality programming beyond the courtroom to attract “real engagers.” “This is life coming at you in real terms,” said Steve Koonin, the president of Turner Entertainment Networks. “All our shows will have a first-person narrative.”

The switch came about after some sophisticated and expensive research into the psychographics of the network’s viewers.

“Court TV has had two audiences,” Koonin said. “The small but passionate daytime audience that tuned in for the court proceedings. At night, in prime time, we had younger men watching the action programming and women watching the mystery-solving programming. We are going to skew more male and more younger by bringing ‘real engager’ programming.”

Koonin, who oversaw TNT’s “We Know Drama” and TBS’ “Very Funny” branding, said this is the first time he has undertaken a re-branding during a time of strong growth. Instead of shrinking the focus, he said he is broadening it. Though Court TV was a clear and recognizable brand, he said it was almost a barrier for new-viewer changes in the schedule.

“In order to continue growing, we have to bring new viewers into the brand,” said Marc Juris, TruTV’s executive vice president and general manager. “We’re trying to unlock our unrealized potential reach.”

…until truTV.com goes live.

Will I live to see it?

According to the IE blog, Internet Explorer 8 has passed the Acid test.

For those of you unaware, the Acid test is a pretty standardized test given to browsers to determine how compliant they are with W3C standards.  It basically uses funky CSS to expect the browser to properly interpret what should be rendered and how.  If rendered properly, you get a smiley face.  When I last checked, Safari for Windows had the best face.

The image of the graphic given to IE8  was perfect.

Long have I yearned for a simple, straightforward way to convert pixels to em’s, regardless of inheritance issues.

Apparently those wise front-end engineers at Yahoo have already figured it out:

Width divided by 13 = em’s for standards-compliant browsers;

Em’s for standards-compliant browsers multiplied by 0.9759 for IE, including IE7

So a 974px width container for is 74.923em’s for Firefox et al and 73.117em’s for IE.

Of course, this assumes you are setting a base font on your body tag of 13px, the golden number Yahoo uses in computing their grid structure.