Maybe you were surprised when you saw this new blogging category on this page, because it should be about programming stuff, but there is a good reason for it. I really love good food and friends of mine know it well . I visited quite a lot of restaurants round the Prague city. There are many places to go for a lunch or dinner. A lot of them are just great but there are also (as in almost all cities all round the world ) restaurants you do not want to visit anymore. So I want to share my opinions and experiences to save your stomach, money and nerves .

I am not a gastronomical expert and I know it. I won’t go to any extra expensive restaurants for immortals or celebrities, I just want a good food, from good sources with amazing taste and not to become totally poor .

I got a lot of in my mind so please stay tuned and come back later for my first reviews….

Bon Appetite!

Well according to IEBlog there are a lot of new (and surely welcomed from web developers) bug fixes to comply with W3C standards. I am really looking forward, because currently feeling about IE7 Beta 2 a bit disappointed. But I know it is still beta .

Fixed bugs first:

• All bugs on positioniseverything.net except the “escaping floats” bug (which is planned for the future)
  • Peekaboo Bug
  • Internet Explorer and Expanding Box Problem
  • Quirky Percentages
  • Line-height bug
  • Border Chaos
  • Disappearing List-Background bug
  • Guillotine Bug
  • Unscrollable Content bug
  • Duplicate Characters Bug
  • IE and Italics
  • Doubled Float-Margin bug
  • Duplicate Indent bug
  • Three pixel text jog
  • Creeping Text bug
  • Missing First letter bug
  • Phantom box bug

Details on some of the other bugs (from sources other than the positioniseverything.net list) that were fixed:

• Overflow now works correctly! (That means boxes do not automatically grow any more.)
• Parser bugs: * HTML, _property and /**/ comment bug 
• Select control: CSS style-able and not always on top
• Auto-sizing of absolute positioned element with width:auto and right & left (great for 3 column layouts)
• Addressed many relative positioning issues
• Addressed many absolute positioned issues
• % calculations for height/width for abs positioned elements http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=191182
• <?xml> prolog no longer causes quirks mode
• HTML element truly independent of the Body (now gets its own width, height etc.)
• 1 px dotted borders no longer render as dashed
• Bottom margin bug on hover does not collapse margins
• Several negative margin issues fixed
• Recalc issues including relative positioning and/or negative margins are fixed now
• CLSID attribute of <object> tag no longer limited to 128 characters
• :first-letter whitespace bug described in http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/09/02/460115.aspx fixed
• Descendant selector now works properly for grand children when combined with other selectors
• First-line and first-letter now applies when there is no space between word :first-line and opening brace {
• Pseudo-classes now are working as expected if selector is excluded
• The :link selector works now for anchor tag with href set to bookmark
• Addressed !important issues
• PositionIsEverything piefecta-rigid.htm now works
• List-item whitespace bug fixed
• Fixed Absolutely Buggy II
• Absolute positioned elements now use always correct containing block for positioning and size information
• Nested block elements now respect all overflow declarations (hidden, scroll, etc)
• Fixed the opposing offset problem (absolute positioned element whit all four top, bottom left and right are present)
• <a> tags nested within LI elements will no longer add extra bottom margin when hover occurs
• We no longer lose the image aspect ratio on refresh
• Cleaned up our ident parsing according to CSS2.1 rules
• Fixed parsing bugs for multi- class selectors and class selectors that are combined with id selectors
• Enable :hover on all elements not just on <a>
• Background-attachment: fixed works on all elements – so Eric Meyer’s complexspiral demo works
• Improved <object> fallback

New features from CSS2.1:

• Min/max width/height support (also for images, which did not work in IE7b2)
• Transparent borders
• Fixed positioning support
• Selectors: first-child, adjacent, attribute, child
  • A couple of CSS 3 attribute selectors: prefix, suffix and substring since we were working already in the code base (also the general sibling selector)
• Alpha channel PNG support (Not a CSS feature but too important for designers to not call it out J)

Improvements in Standars support

• The IE 7 Readiness Toolkit pulls together documentation, tools, and guidance for developers, testers, and ITPros to prepare sites, extensions and applications for IE 7.
• The Cascading Style Sheet Compatibility in Internet Explorer 7 – documentation on common breaking patterns and techniques you can do to avoid them.
• Developer and ITPro Checklists
• The IE Developer Center is the clearinghouse for all (past and present) IE developer information.
• We have an Application Compatibility Toolkit that logs and identifies changes in behavior due to changes in IE 7 and Vista.
• All of this is wrapped up for you in the Information Index for IE 7.

I know that you already heard about Windows Live Writer. But if did not, I will take show you some basic features of this product. First of all I have to say that this post is written using this blogging tool .

So lets start with basic features:

• WYSIWYG Authoring
• Photo Publishing
• Map Publishing
• Writer SDK
• Compatibility

This is a small list of main features and I want to pickup some of them and give you more info about it. So lets start with WYSIWYG authoring, because it is first thing that impress you. After first launch of writer I was asked for my blog/web location and account. In next step Writer detected my blog and download all content and skin. It was really impressing to write you post from Windows application with look of your blog  blog skin.

There are many features that I did not tested yet, but thing I am really excited is Writer SDK. I am going to learn this API to enhance writers functions. I will write more on Live Writer later, when I have more experiences from real work. At this point I have to say that it really surprised me and I am quite sure that I will definitely use it – not for all postings, but definitely for that posted from my home workstation .