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Briefly Noted from July 2005

• Internet Explorer 7 will support CSS 2

  Chris Wilson of the Internet Explorer 7 development team lets us know the next beta will be a lot better — which is very good news.

  Jul 31 2005 at 10:28 AM EDT

  Topics: CSS, Browsers

• Place-shifting television

  If I didn’t pull my TV signals from the air, this would be a very cool device.

  Jul 29 2005 at 12:39 PM EDT

  Topics: TV, Technology

• CSS in Internet Explorer 7

  Dave Shea checks for CSS improvements in Internet Explorer 7 and finds few.

  Jul 28 2005 at 6:06 PM EDT

  Topics: Browsers, CSS

• The Elements of (Newspaper) Blogging

  The editor of Grenboro’s News & Record posts some smart standards and practices for its blogging journalists.

  Jul 27 2005 at 12:54 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Writing

• Introducing Devmo

  The Mozilla Foundation’s follow-up to DevEdge is now, finally, online.

  Jul 26 2005 at 2:25 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Resources

• Tips to speed your Web pages

  Microsoft offers some tips — heretofore unkowne to me — on improving page load times.

  Jul 26 2005 at 2:21 PM EDT

  Topics: HTML, Web Resources

• No Apple on Microsoft’s Earth

  Mistake? Prank? Either way Mircosoft’s Virtual Earth shows a small building where Apple’s sprawling campus should be.

  Jul 26 2005 at 12:14 PM EDT

  Topic: Web Culture

• Windows glyph characters

  A collection of Unicode characters supported on Windows, at least.

  Jul 26 2005 at 11:10 AM EDT

  Topic: Web Design

• CBC faces strike

  CBC employees voted in favour of a strike if they don’t have collective agreement by mid-August.

  Jul 20 2005 at 12:08 PM EDT

  Topics: TV, Radio

• Frank returning as online rag

  Frank is returning this September and looks to be run by someone named Peter Scott, in Newcastle, Ontario.

  Jul 19 2005 at 12:45 PM EDT

  Topic: Magazine

• Emergency Greasemonkey update

  A temporary patch has been issued to disable a serious security vulnerability in Greasemonkey announced yesterday.

  Jul 19 2005 at 12:26 PM EDT

  Topic: Browsers

• Accessible Web design tips

  very week, a new tip to make one’s site accessible is posted on this consultancy site.

  Jul 19 2005 at 11:27 AM EDT

  Topic: Accessibility

• DOM Scripting Task Force

  The WaSP takes on scripting with its new taskforce (and blog).

  Jul 19 2005 at 9:04 AM EDT

  Topics: JavaScript, Web Standards

• Django

  A(nother) Web framework for rapidly devloping complex, database-driven Web sites — this one by Adrian Holovaty and Simon Willison.

  Jul 18 2005 at 11:15 AM EDT

  Topic: Web Technology

• India offshoring to Halifax

  A California company’s transferring its development lab to Halifax, after finding it too hard to retian staff in India.

  Jul 18 2005 at 11:14 AM EDT

  Topics: Technology, Canada

• Dunstan’s goodbye gift

  Clever coder and designer Dunstan Orchards packs it in while giving it all away.

  Jul 18 2005 at 10:53 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Culture, Web Resources

• Toronto news in The Globe and Mail

  Toronto-based stories in “Canada’s national newspaper”.

  Jul 15 2005 at 4:12 PM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• Atom 1.0

  The Atom syndication format has been submitted to Internet Engineering Task Force.

  Jul 15 2005 at 10:52 AM EDT

  Topics: Web Technology, Web Standards

• “Any key” could be a reality

  This mock-up of what a keyboard would look like if it dynamically changed based on what function the keys represent is trés cool.

  Jul 14 2005 at 4:58 PM EDT

  Topic: Computers

• Nuking Yonge and Dundas

  Eric Meyer’s HYDESim illustrates what a Hiroshima-sized nuclear explosion would do to downtown Toronto.

  Jul 14 2005 at 4:15 PM EDT

  Topic: Toronto

• Deconstructing citizen journalism

  Although I think much of this citizen journalism is hype, Doskoch’s deconstruction of Zerbsias critique of the topic is a worthwhile read.

  Jul 13 2005 at 2:49 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• It’s all gonna break

  The Internet Archive is being sued for storing copyrighted material. Expect more like this, soon.

  Jul 13 2005 at 11:16 AM EDT

  Topic: Web Culture

• Toronto⁏s not next

  BlogTO has a gutsy (and fate-tempting) post about why Toronto isn’t likely to be on any terrorist hit list soon. I agree with a lot of the points — after all, we refused to join the war in Iraq.

  Jul 13 2005 at 10:56 AM EDT

  Topics: Toronto, Politics

• Will Canada make Google illegal?

  Looks like the new Copyright Act could make everything Google does (including pointing to copyrighted documents) illegal.

  Jul 12 2005 at 9:33 PM EDT

  Topics: Canada, Search Engines

• This picture is worth 1,000 words

  For a change, an online news photo perfectly captures the context of a story, i.e, Ralph Klein’s reaction so same-sex marriage.

  Jul 12 2005 at 9:17 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Canada

• CBSNews.com opens the floodgates

  The revamped site will offer free access to 25,000 video clips and encourage users to create their own newscast.

  Jul 12 2005 at 5:03 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, TV

• Smooth sliders

  Almost three-years old, this is the best dynamic, degradable slider I’ve encountered yet.

  Jul 12 2005 at 12:11 PM EDT

  Topic: JavaScript

• Check your contrast

  A slick little tool for check the accessibility of a colour contrast scheme.

  Jul 12 2005 at 12:10 PM EDT

  Topic: Accessibility

• News report of London bombings using Google Earth

  Although still a bit primative, this is exactly the kind of thing online journalism can do exceptionally well.

  Jul 11 2005 at 1:10 PM EDT

  Topic: Online Journalism

• WSJ.com: 10 years on the Web

  On July 11, 1995, the first Web site of The Wall Street Journal launched.

  Jul 11 2005 at 1:07 PM EDT

  Topics: Online Journalism, Web Culture