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Molly Holzschlag Interview [20 minutes] from Webstock 08 covering interoperability, HTML 5, Internet Explorer 8 version targeting, and web professionalism.

Eric Karjaluoto from SmashLAB says fuck style! Yeh fuck style. Hardcore design should be focused on results.

Adobe’s See What’s Possible Challenge asks designers, animators and anyone else to compose an engaging 15-second or less animation or motion graphic video of the Photoshop brand logo that illustrates the theme of “See What’s Possible.” Big prizes!

The iPhone & iPod Touch Mini-Set of 29 icons to replace the default iPod/iTouch icons. They come from Dave Shea and are free.

There are some sexy navigation menus on Smashing Magazine today.

Video clip for the Paniks song baile de karramarro is all grungy hand drawn animation - cool.

Smashing Magazine’s rundown of Breathtaking Typographic Posters are awesome.

The WaSP (Web Standards Project) Round Table: IE8’s Default Version Targeting Behavior has Microsoft developers talking about the logic of version targeting and giving feedback on concerns and suggestions. The most interesting thing is at the end when discussion turns to the suggestion of using a Strict Doctype to trigger standards mode. An mp3 is available as well as a transcript.

Update: 26 February, 2008
Aaron Gustafson, one of the guys in the discussion, has posted a brief outline of the proposal to use a Strict Doctype instead of a meta tag in Internet Explorer 8 - Automatically opting-in to IE8s standards mode.