the Forty-Second Parallel

Various web luminaries weigh in on Microsoft's MIX06 and the latest IE 7 "rendering complete" beta:

• Eric Meyer: Mixed Impressions
• Malarkey: MIX06: Viva Las Vegas
• Dave Shea: MIX06

The long and short of it is that IE 7 has gotten a lot of things right this time around. Many of the rendering quirks that we've all grown to love live with have been ironed out and support for numerous other CSS features has been added (e.g. min-width and max-width — woohoo!).

I'm still not thrilled about the interface (button placement is just all wrong), but I don't have to actually use it — just make sure that things work right for those who do.

Deuteronomy 6:4-9:

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Being a follower of Christ is not a simple exercise in thinking the right things theologically. Rather, it demands loving Him and following Him with all of your heart, soul and mind. Or as one commentary rather wordily puts it: with perfect sincerity (heart), utmost fervor (soul) and the fullest exercise of an enlightened reason (mind).

Leave any one of those things out and you are left with distorted image of Christ, which in turn shortchanges your relationship with Him.