Some conscientious readers alerted me to the fact IE 5 and 5.5 weren’t displaying the homepage properly. I’ve got a temporary fix in place, but it seems to stem from the same situation that was plaguing me with Opera: object support being reported as true despite the fact there its incomplete. IE 6 displayed the page fine.

This relates to one of my big pet peeves with IE on Windows: multiple versions aren’t allowed.

The problem should be fixed now—seemed to revolve around the fact IE 5.x did’t want a function to be called onload. Solved it with some Conditional Comments.

Edward “Babyface” Greenspon—the Globe’s political editor will become the newspaper’s editor later this summer. Should be an interesting transition to watch; Greenspon knows his stuff. Little know fact: Greenspon was also the launch editor of the globeandmail.com.

Speaking to the changes to the Mother Corp., the VP of CBC Radio, Alan Frame wrote in the Regina Leader Post:

If we [the CBC] are to connect Canadians to each other, we must look at the means through which we foster public debate, cultural experience and sense of community. We must ensure we create opportunities for new voices to be heard, for new perspectives to be explored, for new experiences to be shared.

His entire argument sounds good to me, a loyal CBC listener, and I’m not even in the demographic Frame et al. are trying to reach.

Also today: my parent’s 32nd wedding aniversary, a CANOE wake, and another excellent Contact 2002 show opens.