Our Men's Fitness Center launched recently. Check it out to learn about calming foods and tips for getting your abs in shape. Perfect timing for the summer. Kudos to the design team for developing a strong creative in short order, tackling both the visual design and all of the CSS.

I'm going to be setting the new standards for typography on the Web, and I want your help.

A few weeks back, while at the W3C CSS Work Group Face-To-Face meeting in San Diego, I volunteered, to be the advocate for several of the CSS 3 Modules. A while back, the Work Group decided that, rather than trying to release one big document, they would release the CSS 3 specification in smaller modular chunks. As an advocate for parts of the overall CSS 3 specifications, I work to push my chosen modules through from a working draft to a full blown recommendation. It's kind of like taking a bill through the US Congress, only with more transparency. I decided to take on the four issues which I believe will have the most effect on the work we do here at AOL: CSS Basic UI, CSS Hyperlink Presentation, CSS Fonts, and CSS Web Fonts. It's a lot of work, so I'll be concentrating on the Font Modules first.

Ian Hickson, who I sat next to at the W3C CSS Work Group meeting last November in Boston, has just completed work on the next generation browser test Acid3. Now ready for prime time on acidtest.org, the test includes 100 new tests of HTTP, HTML, CSS, ECMAScript (JavaScript), SVG, and XML. Hickson, who is also the primary author of the new HTML5 specification, wrote most of the tests with others coming from the Web design community.

So far, I've tested IE6, Safari 3, and Firefox 2. All of them failed the test spectacularly. I recently reported that the upcoming IE8 passes Acid2, but learned that it only works if the originating server is reconfigured and it is unlikly it will be passing Acid3 anytime soon.