W3C outlines style sheets to rely on

The W3C has issued three Candidate Recommendations for the use of cascading style sheets: CSS 2.1, CSS Print Profile and CSS3 Paged Media. Building on CSS2 (and thus CSS1), CSS 2. ...more

Microsoft jumps on the Ajax bandwagon

Microsoft has released a developers' tool that allows website designers to create user interfaces and applications in the increasingly popular Ajax. The free download is an extension for the company's ASP.Net 2. ...more

News roundup... 23/05/2002

Here, in brief, are some of the day's other stories. Bell Labs probed An investigation has been launched into research at the prestigious Bell Labs into its apparently-breakthrough research into molecular-sized electronics. The New York Times reports that other scientists had struggled to recreate experiments involving transistors made with individual molecules. ...more

Text handling flaw found in Internet Explorer

Another bug has been found in IE's dirty linen, and once again it's being washed in public. On Microsoft's Security Response Center blog, lead security program manager Lennart Wistrand said that the company was aware of information that had been made public about a possible flaw that would allow code to be run if the user visited a specially built page. The bug comes just days after a similarly public flaw was discovered that could cause the browser to crash. ...more

BT goes Bluetooth with the Prelude 200 home phone

BT has unveiled its Christmas product line up, introducing its first Bluetooth phone for the home and a hands-free whiteboard. The first Bluetooth phone is the BT Prelude 200 which can be paired with up to four other Bluetooth devices, such as mobiles or PDAs. This lets you dial from a remote device through the landline, answer mobile calls on your home phone and sync phone numbers between the various devices. ...more