Opera Web Browser Corporation CTO Hakon Wium Lie recently published an open letter to Microsoft to encourage them to make their IE browser standards compliant. Opera has as well filed a complaint with the European Commission to force Microsoft to respect and use open Web standards in the design of its IE browser.

Håkon Lie is a respected authority in these matters not only as CTO of Opera, but also from his experience at CERN and W3C designing and contributing the standards the Web is based upon. In his open letter, Mr. Lie points out that despite Microsoft's considerable resources and talent, as well as for all the promises made on the subject, it still fails to implement open web standards. Mr. Lie points as an example how the Acid2 standard has not been implemented in IE, the web's most popular browser.

Mark's Teaching Career in Web Technologies at BCIT

Over the next 12 weeks, Mark Yuasa, Raincity's Creative Director, will be teaching a course at BCIT on An Introduction to Web Technologies to students of the New Media program.

Week 2 has just come and gone and so far, Mark really likes the environment and his 2 classes of 40 students. Up to this point in the term, he has introduced the students to some of the basics in web technology: W3C standards, web semantics, CSS, HTML, XML, social softwares and open source technologies.