This is pretty neat.  For whatever reason, Internet Explorer has a quirk about how it interprets CSS properties.  So, the CSS maintainers adopt a clarification to their rules (in CSS 2.1) which explicitly allows the quirk, and it becomes a way for web authors to recognize and adapt to any other idiosyncrasies that happened to make their way into IE.

I’ve been thinking about idiosyncrasies and coding lately– mostly because I’ve been laying out a new poster for display at the 2009 ISIE conference in Lisbon, which I sadly won’t be able to attend, owing (at some distance) to California’s present financial difficulties.  But at least my poster will kick ass.  I laid it out in TeX using the “arbitrary” class, a derivative of a0poster which appears to be missing from the comprehensive TeX archive network. Anyway, it’s the only way I know of to make a 48″x36″ PDF in LaTeX.

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