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Briefly Noted in December date
Quick links not blogged but blogmarked
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Happy 10th, Z
Jeffrey Zeldman, the man who brought “Web standards” to the forefront, celebrates 10 years online.
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Dave’s markup guide
A little style guide designed to show the basics of semantic markup.
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The rationale for XHTML 2.0
The W3C explain the reasoning behind and the features of XHTML 2.0.
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Internet Explorer support end dates
Most versions of the Microsoft browser will no londer by supported by the company after December 21, 2005.
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Review the latest XHTML 2.0 draft
Anne highlights the changes to the latest draft XHTML 2.0 draft — seems a step backwards…
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Replacing the Vomit Comet
Eye asks what I’ve always wondered, too: why do subways still stop before last call?
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Frank back?
Ms Z. is suggest the gossip magazine is being resurrected by its former owner as an online publication.
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Details on tabs in Internet Explorer
Essentially, IE 7’s tabs will behave as Firefox and Safari do.
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Salon’s Site Pass success
The online magazine’s revenue model seems to final have got its groove.
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Nokia 770: the Internet tablet
Although I had an early Palm, I only really used it to read downloaded Web sites. This, though, looks to satisfy my needs…
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Unistall Netscape 8 says IE team
The Internet Explorer team suggests users uninstall Netscape 8 because of an XML issue.
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Mixtapes, mash-ups, and Creative Commons
The Globe and Mail sums up the current copyright fight in the music fans world.
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Mr. Y2K tolls the bell for copyright
Peter de Jager, former Y2K consultant, argues for micropayments instead.
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Piracy as a sampler menu
Mark Pesce, in Mindjack makes the arguement that piracy can be good for media.
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MySQL tips
More than thirty tips about the database language.
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Universal layouts
One HTML file to rule them (i.e., CSS designs) all.
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Finder-style menu
I was thinking about doing something like this myself, but once again A List Apart beats me to the punch.
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Dean Edwards releases IE7 update
The script now corrects almost all of Internet Explorer’s CSS bugs.
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Enter stage left: Kerouac
An unpublished play by Jack Kerouac has been discovered.
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Bias in Google News
Non-traditional news sources seem to tilt Google News’ biases left.
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“My” Google a let down
This is personalization circa ’96 with nothing more than a smoother interface. And Canadian info is hard to get.
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TTC Rider Efficiency Guide
A mini-map to each subway station in the TTC.
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Canadians can be sued by music industry
A Canadian Federal Court of Appeal decision says the industry can sue people who share music online, but it won’t be easy.
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Netflix beats Wal-Mart
Online DVD rental business goes to the little guy.
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Netscape 8 released
The browser that won’t die now has two heads.
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Using hCalendar to fill your calendar
Eric Meyer explains how the microformat can be changed into an iCalendar file.
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Online news survey
Questions are a bit skewed, but worth taking to see the results.
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NYTimes.com redesigns story pages
In anticipation of subscription content, the site tweaks it pages and, visually, makes them worse.
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Custom DTDs not so good
Making you own DTD may not be such a good idea after all.
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The New York Times follows The Globe and Mail
…in the sense it will be putting some of its content behind a paywall. However, they are letting paper subscribers in for free — smart.
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Toronto Star blogs and podcasts
Antonia Zerbisas does the media blog thing and John Sakamoto’s Anti-Hit List is part of the podcasts.
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