Jon Galloway

Yes, I'm aware the conference ended 6 days ago. I returned to a pretty full workload, so it's taken me a few days to get my notes typed up. I'm finally ready to say goodbye to Mix06; thanks for bearing with me.

I went to Marc Canter 's Microformats Un-meeting at Mix06 . It was interesting on a lot of levels. First of all, I had some vague notions of what microformats are, but it was great to hear Marc, Tantek, Eric Meyer, and others describe the idea.

I talked with Dean Hachamovitch (the IE General Manager) a few times at Mix06 about why I feel Virtual PC is not a complete or practical solution to web developers who need to migrate from IE6 to IE7. I recommended a few alternate ideas in the very likely case that they just can't support a side-by-side install of IE in the near future. I think this is an important issue - it's a first experience sort of thing for web developers, many of whom have only ever supported one version of IE. I'm quite at home with VPC, but I don't think we should expect that from web developers who feel inconvenienced to have to use a PC in the first place. It's important that web developers learn to like IE, and first impressions are important.

As a web developer who's into web standards, I cringed when I heard the feedback several corporate IT guys gave the IE team at Mix06:

I did a short interview with Robert McMillan for his article Eolas changes to go widespread with next IE update based on my previous blog post on the subject.

I asked Dave Massey why the IE team doesn't publish a product roadmap for Internet Explorer. Firefox publishes a roadmap, which gives web designers an idea of what's ahead - why can't Microsoft do the same?