The Gemini’s have a “Most Popular Web Site” category, and are asking Canadians to vote for their favourite TV Web site. From the looks of it the first round is made up of every major Canadian TV show with a site (actually it’s only 20). By the fourth round, when five are selected, let’s hope some genuinely good sites emerge.

As a side note, the nominees for the more interesting category, “Most Innovative Website” (jury-awarded) is unavailable on the Gemini’s own site — a site that, as it is, would never be nominated for that category.

Marek Prokop sent me a note about Dogma W4, a Czech-initiated attempt to formulate rules for valid and accessible Web design that moves beyond standard compliance. Though parallels can be drawn with the Dogme 95 filmmaking, Dogma W4 is nowhere near as restrictive.

This, and some recent comments on some of mailing lists I belong to, have got me thinking about the pros and cons of evangelizing standard compliance. Look for a rant on this shortly…

Just noticed this in the JavaScript error window (of all places) in Mozilla 1.2a:

Warning: The stylesheet [CSS URL removed] was loaded as CSS even though its MIME type, "application/x-pointplus", is not "text/css".

Seems to be a decent solution for displaying style sheets even on badly configured servers (although a better solution is to fix those servers).

Eric A. Meyer pointed out that this only happens on pages rendering using Mozilla’s quirks mode.