According to a recent Internet Explorer Team chat found over at aebrahim’s blog, it seems Jeffrey Zeldman, other standards evangelists and big name developers could possibly find themselves working alongside Microsoft on future versions of IE.

Tabbed browsing is also mentioned as a possible feature in a future release of IE and additional accessibility features are mentioned. Unfortunately, talk of not wanting to “break” things by adding a better standards support is dis-heartening… so I guess we’ll have to wait and see what the next version of IE has in store for the web-developer.

Several years ago, I could easily churn out 2 to 3 mid-sized websites a week without breaking a sweat. Then I decided I wanted to learn a lot more about design, typography, coding, programming as well as other aspects of design industry.

This led to a quiet year or so where I didn’t really do any commercial or personal work except when trying out the skills I’d learnt.

The past few years, I’ve participated in several small projects and have hundreds of ideas for sites. Most had been personal sites and a few were money-making ventures…

Almost all failed miserably and never even made it onto the web!

I recently found myself asking why, and came up with several possible reasons including one that seemed most feasible…

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