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Briefly Noted from April 2005

• Globeandmail.com tweaks its look

  Updates includes some changes to the bottom of the homepage (standards-based structure); great improvements to the story bundles; and a Flash-edition of a print-based golf guide.

  Apr 28 2005 at 6:01 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• On the release of IE7’s user-agent string

  Simon Willison has some concerns about the release of IE 7’s user agent string.

  Apr 28 2005 at 8:36 AM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• sIFR 2.0 finally released

  With this release, the image replacement technique also gets its own page on Mike Davidson’s site.

  Apr 28 2005 at 8:30 AM EDT

  Topics: Accessibility, Web Design

• Safari passes Acid2

  The browser can now claim the one with the best standards support.

  Apr 28 2005 at 8:28 AM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, Web Standards

• The Globe and Gmail?

  Or as the headline of this column speculating on newspapers being bought by dot-com companies suggests, The Google Street Journal.

  Apr 27 2005 at 5:14 PM EDT

  Topic: Newspapers

• Bye bye RadioShack

  In Canada, the RadioShack brand is being replaced by a clunky new name: The Source By Circuit City.

  Apr 27 2005 at 10:39 AM EDT

  Topic: Canada

• Layton wins concessions from Martin

  The NDP now (almost) hold the balance-of-power.

  Apr 26 2005 at 6:03 PM EDT

  Topic: Canada

• Making a newspaper business online

  Bill Doskoch offers his insight on The Globe and Mail’s article on the struggle with online newspaper revenue.

  Apr 26 2005 at 11:08 AM EDT

  Topics: Subscriptions & Registration, Online Journalism

• Mapping New York’s literary locales

  This idea floated in The New York Times cries for a Google Maps Greasemonkey script.

  Apr 26 2005 at 10:08 AM EDT

  Topic: Books

• Aardvark: a Firefox extension for Web designers

  Intuitively highlights elements, and lets you manipulate them on a page.

  Apr 26 2005 at 9:12 AM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• Tom Waits upset over commercial

  Commercials are an unnatural use of my work, he said. It’s like having a cow’s udder sewn to the side of my face. Painful and humiliating. (Em

  Apr 25 2005 at 2:50 PM EDT

  Topic: Music

• Opera CEO takes a bath

  Jon S. von Tetzchner has begun what will likley be an uncompleted trans-Atlantic swim.

  Apr 25 2005 at 2:26 PM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Problems wiki-ing the news

  True it is still finding it’s legs, but the problems Wikinews is encountering won’t surprise the skeptics.

  Apr 25 2005 at 11:19 AM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• The blog-friendly U.S. papers

  Interesting survey of shows The Wall Street Journal really is ignored by the blogosphere. Maybe someone do a similar survey for Canada…?

  Apr 25 2005 at 11:14 AM EDT

  Topics: Newspapers, Subscriptions & Registration

• Some IE7 fixes revealed

  Chris Wilson says PNG transparency support is in place, as are fixes to a couple of notable CSS bugs.

  Apr 24 2005 at 9:34 AM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Who do you want for Prime Minister?

  Based on the 2004 poll (issues which are still true in a 2005/6 election), I scored 100% for Jack Layton Leader, 74% for Gilles Duceppe, 48% for Paul Martin and a whopping 7% for Stephen Harper. Pretty accurate.

  Apr 22 2005 at 2:10 PM EDT

  Topic: Canada

• The article page as a news hub

  Steve Outing uses globeandmail.com’s phenomenally successful article redesign as a jumping-off point for new ways to navigate a news site.

  Apr 22 2005 at 11:02 AM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Usability

• HTML 5

  A.k.a., Web Applications 1.0, the spec may one day be the future.

  Apr 22 2005 at 10:27 AM EDT

  Topic: HTML

• Canadians get number portability

  Not a cellphone user, but this good news is something I didn’t think the Canadian telecoms would cave on so quickly.

  Apr 22 2005 at 12:20 AM EDT

  Topics: Technology, Canada

• Layton’s response to Martin

  [E]ducation, training for workers, and the environment are more important than this scandal.

  Apr 22 2005 at 12:12 AM EDT

  Topic: Canada

• The next 20hz

  After a troublesome takeover (and subsequent censorship), the Canadian indie crowd leaves 20hz en masse.

  Apr 21 2005 at 11:28 PM EDT

  Topics: Music, Canada

• Steps to better typography

  One of the most valuable seminars I had in j-school was in typography and this is a great refresher.

  Apr 21 2005 at 5:31 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• Google remembers what you searched

  Let the privacy nuts sound off, but this is very, very smart of Google.

  Apr 20 2005 at 7:35 PM EDT

  Topic: Search Engines

• 2005 Canadian New Media Awards’ finalists

  If this is the cream of new media in Canada, then maybe multimedia CD-ROMs will be the next big thing.

  Apr 20 2005 at 7:28 PM EDT

  Topics: Web Culture, Canada

• Online sales quintupled since 2000

  Looks like this e-commerce thing has finally caught on in Canada.

  Apr 20 2005 at 5:40 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Culture

• Finally, transerfable metropasses

  In September, Torontonians will be able to share monthly and weekly transit passes.

  Apr 20 2005 at 11:33 AM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• Camper Van Beethoven live in the Archive

  A slightly inside joke for those that know my dog, for the rest, some good, free music.

  Apr 19 2005 at 11:21 PM EDT

  Topic: Music

• DevEdge resurrection plans

  A temporary mirror of this great resource is now online.

  Apr 19 2005 at 5:59 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Resources

• Opera 8 released

  Been playing with the beta for a while, and can safely say this is a very good release.

  Apr 19 2005 at 9:49 AM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Toronto’s Pitchfork?

  The guy who “transformed” the El Mo plans to overhaul 20hz

  Apr 18 2005 at 11:07 PM EDT

  Topics: Toronto, Music