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Briefly Noted from February 1999

• Browser 10 bug

  Like Y2K all over again, browser detection software may need an upgrade to support those, like Opera, now in version 10

  Dec 19 2008 at 10:00 AM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Sun Media cutting 600 jobs

  Ten percent of its workforce will be gone by year's end

  Dec 16 2008 at 12:53 PM EST

  Topics: Newspapers, CANOE

• Adding the fourth dimension

  Zoetrope concept demonstrates how to browse the past online in very rich ways

  Dec 15 2008 at 7:35 PM EST

  Topics: User Interface, Web Technology

• Stephanie Nolen: Out of Africa

  One of Canada's, if not the world's, best foreign correspondents says farewell to the continent she covered for five years

  Dec 15 2008 at 11:28 AM EST

  Topics: Journalism, Newspapers

• CSS Text Wrapper

  Tool for creating the markup needed to wrap text around an image

  Dec 11 2008 at 12:50 PM EST

  Topic: Web Design

• Digital Web seeks new direction

  The online magazine that literally changed my life, is now seeking to change itself and wants your thoughts

  Dec 11 2008 at 11:13 AM EST

  Topics: Web Culture, Web Design

• WCAG 2.0 official

  The contentious second version of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines is now a recommendation

  Dec 11 2008 at 11:12 AM EST

  Topics: Accessibility, Web Standards

• Government 2.0 - really

  Chnage.gov is becoming an example of how government's can easily appear more transparent

  Dec 11 2008 at 11:01 AM EST

  Topics: Politics, Social Media

• StatCan as Google

  Great proposal on how Canada's statistic agency could reshape itself to literally be the Google of that country

  Dec 9 2008 at 8:16 PM EST

  Topics: Search Engines, Canada

• The beginning of it all

  How you do what you are doing right this instant was inspired by a demo 40 years ago

  Dec 9 2008 at 11:22 AM EST

  Topics: Computers, User Interface

• Adrian Bromley, 1971-2008

  He was one of the first people in the industry I worked with and made those night shifts something to enjoy - 30 -

  Dec 8 2008 at 11:04 PM EST

  Topics: CANOE, Personal

• A Putlizer for online

  The revered journalism prize is final going to be awarded in an online category (although it must be text-based)

  Dec 8 2008 at 10:45 PM EST

  Topics: Online Journalism, Journalism

• Online ads & Web design

  Good overview of both the importance ads play in Web design and the current trends

  Dec 4 2008 at 8:41 PM EST

  Topics: Web Design, Advertising

• 20 signs you don’t want that web design project

  An scarily accurate list of warning signs

  Dec 4 2008 at 11:19 AM EST

  Topics: Web Design, Work

• Microlocal

  EveryBlock replaces the buzzword "hyperlocal" with the more accurate "microlocal"

  Dec 4 2008 at 11:17 AM EST

  Topic: Web Culture

• * o GlobeAuto o Careers o Classifieds o Newspaper Ads o Personals o Real Estate Click here to find out more! Canadians react

  Interactive showing how Canadian premiers and Globe and Mail readers feel about the crisis of confidence in the House of Commons

  Dec 3 2008 at 4:30 PM EST

  Topics: Politics, Interactive Journalism

• Green browsing

  The new Web development trend: reduce your site's energy footprint

  Dec 3 2008 at 4:24 PM EST

  Topics: Web Technology, JavaScript

• The Grid System

  A resource for everything related to using grids in design

  Dec 3 2008 at 4:24 PM EST

  Topic: Web Design

• Agile for design

  How to apply Agile development concepts to Web design

  Dec 3 2008 at 4:22 PM EST

  Topic: Web Design

• Data cleaner

  A great Web-based tool for those who hate regex and need to normalize data

  Dec 1 2008 at 7:25 PM EST

  Topic: Web Technology

• Pownce says goodbye

  The potential Twitter-killer has been sold to Six Apart and will be going offline

  Dec 1 2008 at 4:14 PM EST

  Topic: Social Media

• Summarizing the poitical sentiment

  Discussion about a change in Canadian government grew to 1,200 comments and Mathew Ingram read through them all to find the best ones

  Dec 1 2008 at 4:14 PM EST

  Topics: Canada, Politics

• Helvetireader

  Brilliant skin to Google Reader (and love the article sampled, too)

  Nov 26 2008 at 6:37 PM EST

  Topics: Web Design, Search Engines

• New Google Map controls

  Streetview on Google Maps introduces an terrific new interface for the map controls

  Nov 26 2008 at 4:17 PM EST

  Topics: User Interface, Search Engines

• The Souvenir Shop

  Pseudo-souvenirs of Canada from some country's best emerging designers

  Nov 26 2008 at 1:11 PM EST

  Topics: Canada, Culture

• Discover related keywords

  Chris Heilmann demonstrates how to use Yahoo's API to uncover related keywords

  Nov 26 2008 at 1:11 PM EST

  Topics: Search Engines, JavaScript

• All-in-one browser

  One browser, three rendering engines (IE, Firefox, and Safari); great for testing

  Nov 25 2008 at 4:55 PM EST

  Topic: Browsers

• Reason #80211 why I like Virgin America

  In-flight Wi-Fi

  Nov 25 2008 at 12:54 PM EST

  Topic: Web Technology

• New ideas for newspapers

  Seth Godin has some original ideas to help newspapers survive online.

  Nov 24 2008 at 12:30 PM EST

  Topics: Newspapers, Online Journalism

• Skewing images with JavaScript

  A clever script to do projective transformations of Web-based images using canvas and JavaScript

  Nov 13 2008 at 3:51 PM EST

  Topics: JavaScript, HTML