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If you’ve been using Mozilla Firefox as your web browser for a while, you should make sure that you are using the latest version. By mid-May, Mozilla will have officially ended support for Firefox 1.5, which was released in late 2005, and they are encouraging everyone to upgrade to version 2.0.

Microsoft has begun sending out e-mails urging people to oppose an upcoming California state bill that would promote open interoperability with digital documents. The bill, named “California A.B. 1668 : Open Document Format, Open Source“, would require all state agencies to standardize on XML-based open document standards so that they may be accessible to a wider range of applications and operating systems. The bill also establishes a “procurement preference” for the OpenDocument format (ODF). Microsoft objects to this stated preference and asserts that Microsoft’s own Office Open XML format would be a better candidate.

Net Applications, a web metrics company, has released a newsletter featuring its March 2007 web browser usage statistics. These attempt to measure what percentages of the Web’s users are using which web browsers.

The second annual CSS Naked Day is coming April 5. This is the day that many sites will intentionally remove their webpage’s stylesheets in an effort to draw attention to something called “semantic markup”.