Excellent article on a modular grid layout by Jason Santa Maria. Grid layouts are inspired by the same rules that have been in use by print design for decades. The example (with grid) shows the extreme simplicity of the CSS framework compared to the rich visual results. Jason's homepage is also a stunning example of a grid layout.
The web site for An Event Apart was recently redesigned by Jeffrey Zeldman, with programming by Eric Meyer. In his post Eric explains how wanting to have hrefs on any element made him chose HTML 5, and the gotchas and problems he found with current browsers.
Opera has announced MAMA, a new search engine that indexes the actual markup and styling information of a web page:
MAMA is a structural Web-page search engine—it trawls Web pages and returns results detailing page structures, including what HTML, CSS, and script is used on it, as well as whether the HTML validates.
TechRepublic interviews Ian Hickson on HTML 5:
We’ve raised the bar of what a spec has to do to be taken seriously; we’ve shown that it is entirely possible to develop Web technologies in a radically open manner; we’ve driven innovation and competition in the browser space; and we’ve shown that an open and vendor-neutral technology stack can compete seriously with single-vendor closed technologies.