As if magically solving one of the most vexing problems of just about every web designer, Joe Maddalone has discovered how to run multiple versions of IE side by side. If this works, we can finally say goodbye to rebooting to test web pages on various versions of IE, or if you have multiple windows boxes for this purpose - clear off some desk space. I can’t wait to try this. Thanks for the link branchleft. [web graphics]

I tried, and it works. This certainly saves Martin a lot of trouble, who was the only one at Q42 with IE5.5 on his machine, and had to test everything anybody else made.

The new glass look of Windows Longhorn is very pretty. This is of course a challenge to imitate in HTML. It's Internet Explorer for Windows only. CSS does most of the work, and there's a little bit of Javascript. It's slow and useless, but it's pretty!

Now if I only had Mozilla's curved borders, Safari's text-shadow, Opera's speed and SVG's Gaussian blur to finish it off. Now that I mention it, Lon sais I should try this in SVG, which might be interesting too.

The Xopus website has been updated. There's a lot of new information available, including pricing, 2 online demos and 2 flash tours. A standalone evaluation version can be downloaded.