The Globe and Mail has finally unveiled it’s redesign — a jello site, using XHTML and CSS (with tables) — that doesn’t come close to validating that they are working hard to make validate. The predominant feature: grey. But it is faster loading, and the design and underlying code is much cleaner. More in-depth comment will likely follow my first cursory glance.

A significant changing of the guard took place at the Web Standards Project. Moving to “emeritus” status are five of the big guns that got it going, including Jeffreys Zeldman and Veen, as well as Eric Costello. In their place come 17 new faces, but whose names I’ve long seen and respected at WebDesign-L. I know they’ll do an great job leading the WaSP into its next stage.

Why does the word “foreign” always look so, well, foreign to me?