Design In-Flight’s April 2005 issue came out yesterday, whereupon I paid out $10 for their back catalogue, consisting of all four issues to date (including the latest). With a front cover by Kevin Cornell and articles by Khoi Vinh and Molly Holzschlag, it’s well worth picking up (payment is by PayPal, and they email you a username and password; you can then download the magazine as a PDF).

While we’re on the subject of design, the WaSP’s Acid2 test is out now. Like the original Acid test, it checks whether the browser viewing the page deploys all the relevant CSS properties correctly. As Safari developer Dave Hyatt notes, “every browser fails it spectacularly.” Despite the protestations of standards-compliancy from the top modern browsers, there’s clearly still a fair way to go yet.

The Web Standards Project have put out a press release about Acid2. Their public relations stuff has been smarter since the backlash over the initial flagging of Acid2 as a “public effort to encourage Microsoft to add as much CSS 2 support as possible as its developers embark on IE7″; a spin which brought criticism from some quarters, who noted that no browser complied fully with even the CSS 2.1 specification. This criticism, as we can now see from the WaSP’s press release, was well founded: they state that “Acid2 has already been found to expose flaws in all tested browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, and Safari.”