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Living Can Kill You From 2002
Posted on September
“Living Can Kill You” first appeared as a chapbook poems in 1994, before being the name used to describe a regular blog starting in June of 2000.
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CSS signatures
Inspired by one of Eric A. Meyer’s recent postings to css-discuss, saila.com now has a “CSS Signature” allowing you to re-style this site. -
More on Google News while Google’s banned in China
There already is professional reaction to Google News. -
AOL Time Warner Disney; gzip
Looks like AOL is looking for an MSNBC killer. -
Google News relaunches
Google News has relaunched its service, and, as holovaty.com found out in an early preview, it does a pretty good impersonation of a traditional news portal. But this one is created automatically, using Google’s algorithms. -
CSS photos; libel online
Inspired by Steve Champeon’s experiments, R.Livsey posted to evolt’s thelist a PHP script that quickly accomplishes the same thing. -
CNN.com and Google News redesign
Had a good time celebrating with friends last night after a fantastic dinner, doubt the smiley will have the same today as it celebrates 20 years. -
In-house Web design; WCAG 2 draft; 100% height
Well, I’m another year older today and that coincides with someone finally hitting this site looking for the Saila-brand of licorice mints. (Apparently “Saila” is also the name of the chief or prophet of the Kuna people in Panama.) -
Zero Knowledge and Sympatico
Zero Knowledge Systems, the poster company for privacy in the late nineties, is offering its services to Sympatico cutomers for $5.95 a month. Not only is it affordable, its a great deal for both Zero Knowledge and the ISP’s customers. Ironically though, those customers can get most of those services — for free — by downloading a little browser called Mozilla -
Accessibility tests, OJA finalists
Last Wednesday, Yahoo greyed-out its homepage to commemorate the events of last September 11. On the MACCAWS list, a discussion began about how easy it would have been to do this using CSS. Others commented how this was a good way to see the Web as the colour blind do (yes, it was also mentioned that most people who are colour blind can see some colour). -
Broker Survey
For those of you wondering what I do for a paid job, The Globe and Mail’s 2002 On-Line Broker Survey is a good example (and those using Gecko-based browser will see a simple, CSS-based rollover effect on the tables). -
Veen blogs
For a long time, the Jeffrey I associated with Web design was not Zeldman, but Veen. (As I’ve mentioned before, HotWired had quite an influence on me.) Now, it looks as though he’s blogging. -
Mozilla 1.2 and box-sizing
The alpha version of Mozilla 1.2 is now available, with some helpful keyboard-based navigation improvements. -
Covering September 11 one year later
When working in the media, it is too easy to contribute to the noise and drown out the signal. Many journalists are (somewhat) privately wringing their hands over the appropriate way to cover the one year anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon. Professionally, though, the organizations they (and I) work for, are busy creating a media event. -
WebWord.com style
WebWord.com is thinking about switching to a CSS-based layout, and is soliciting opinions. As an example of the potential of a CSS layout, I put together a mock-up of the WebWord.com homepage (with the exception of the ad, the JavaScript caused problems in Netscape 4). The design works in Netscape 4 and up, is valid, more accessible, works better for non-visual browsers, and is basically identical to the tabled version. -
CBC at 50, interactive style, and detecting browsers
Fifty years ago today in Montreal, CBC Television debuted with an English-language children’s movie. Two days later, the Toronto station flickered to life with an upside-down logo and a newscast hosted by Lorne Greene — the National aired a bit of that first newscast last night. -
Champeon and Kaiser interviewed, IE 5/Mac bug fixed
Digital Web magazine has a new issue out, and this one focuses on Web standards, specifically, an interview with Steve Champeon (List Mom for WebDesign-L) and Shirley Kaiser about the WaSP, as well as an excerpt from Zeldman’s forthcoming book, Forward Compatibility: Designing & Building With Standards. -
Searchable newspapers from history
Following on the heels of the Newseum’s showcase of the latest front pages, xBlog plugged the Canadian site Paper of Record (aside: its unlinkable about page has some interesting history on Canadian newspapers).
