Thanks to a five-year hiatus between IE6 and IE7 and the minimal advances in new (to IE) CSS support by IE7, there's been a stagnation in web development. Nothing new has come forth and nothing new is coming forth. Right? Wrong! In fact, the last seven years have seen a number of advancements in web design techniques. Further, with the upcoming release of new browsers such as Firefox 3, opera 10, and IE8, there may be all kinds of new development vistas opening before our eyes. And even if that were not true, there's still much we don't know about what CSS and browsers can do. So take an hour to dig into the surprising present and blossoming future of web design, and see why there's still plenty of new in the web. An internationally recognized expert on the subjects of HTML, CSS, and Web standards, Eric Meyer has been working on the web for almost 15 years now. He is the founder of Complex Spiral Consulting, which counts among its clients America On-Line, Apple Computer, Macromedia, Progressive Insurance, Sherwin-Williams, and more; one of the three authors of XFN and a founder of the microformats movement; and co-founder (with Jeffrey Zeldman) of An Event Apart, the conference series for people who make web sites. Beginning in early 1994, Eric was the campus Web coordinator for Case Western Reserve University, where he also authored a widely acclaimed series of three HTML tutorials and was project lead for the online version of the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History combined with the Dictionary of Cleveland graphy, the first example of an encyclopedia of urban history being fully and freely published on the Web.