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A little late, but the new Mozilla release candidate supports the CSS3 opacity property.

Excellent slideshow/presentation by Douglas Bowman titled CSS: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly. It details current and recently past techniques, why they were good attempts, how they fail, and what the future holds. As an introduction to the current state of CSS-based design, it is quick and rigorous, but an excellent overview of an ever-changing technology.

If you're looking for more than the previously mentioned Advanced Tables Tutorial, check out Isolani's Creating Structured Tables. It's a bit more on the practical side.

There is an interesting discussion here about wrapping a graphical logo within an H1 tag (Fahrner Image Replacement). Most seem to agree the semantic meaning is of most importance, but disagree whether or not the logo (company name) is semantically deserving of being the primary heading.

Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 834489 announced an upcoming fix for the Internet Explorer username exploit that masked malicious website URLs. If you use any links that look like

http(s)://username:password@server/resource.ext

then any updated browsers will not follow them. The article provides workarounds for server backends and client scripting. The HTTP login URL format was never in the official standard. Note that this does not affect FTP login URLs.