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.

Unfortunately, part of the fiftieth anniversary coverage includes a fair chunk of the “September 11th and Nothing But!” that will be airing on most every network.

While the CBC celebrates, the broadcaster it was modelled after has unveiled its guidelines for producing interactive content (strangely enough in PDF). Covers:

• Web sites,
• wireless and other emerging platforms,
• interactive TV,
• as well as enhanced TV.

And on another note: if only he believed it.

A significantly revamped Netscape DevEdge offers some excellent articles, including an updated one on properly detecting browsers (an the various revisions of Gecko-based browsers) and another on building standard-compliant Web sites. Those, and the Web Tune Up Wizard are, great for both developers and for client/managers who need to be convinced of the advantages to being standard compliant.

Also worth bookmarking, if you work with JavaScript, is the table listing support for DOM objects in various browsers.