Archive
February 2002’s Posts.
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Attacking the messenger
Despite the old adage, it really isn’t a good idea to kill (or hit, in this case) the messenger if you want to generate any level of sympathy from the general public.
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Fact checking
One of the dark secrets of journalism is almost no-one double-check’s the reporter’s facts (except in magazines—usually).
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Tables or CSS?
This article covers the benefits found in using style sheets instead of tables, and provides some questions to should ask before developing a CSS-based layout.
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Client-side is not server-side
Hear hear!
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Convergence culture clash
Five years ago, I was the managing editor at Canada’s first daily webzine about technology, called The Convergence (it was to be called Convergence, but the dot-com was taken). Ostensibly, it was about how the coming convergence of technology would affect our daily lives.
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WSJ’s US$28 million redesign
Last month, The Wall Street Journal Online unveiled its US$28 million redesign, which was about a tenth of the print edition’s redesign costs. OJR has an interesting interview with the online editon’s publisher about the redesign process, as well as reaction to the new site.
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Microsoft phones home
With the desktop and the Web browser locked-up—and established beachheads in the TV, PDA, and gaming console worlds—Microsoft jumped into the cellphone market today by unveiling “recipes”, including PhonePC, that let manufacturers quickly build wireless components (like Net access) into their phones. Nokia, Motorola, and Ericsson are all offering their own flavours of this technology.
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Standards
The bane and beauty of the term “standard” is that it can be used in so many ways.
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February 14, 2002
Corrected two display problems that presented the privacy statement (how ironic) as well as the homepage (in Opera 5.x) from displaying
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The Meta Pad
Though a good couple years away from consumer use, IBM’s Meta Pad could be an amazingly convenient piece of hardware.
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Olympic hurdles; layout thanks
While in Ireland a year and a half ago, I went to one of the most western parts of Europe, Valentia Island. The early radio operators there were one of the only points of contact for ocean going vessels, thanks greatly to the work of Guglielmo Marconi.
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Paying for content
Looks as though 2002 will be the year the free-ride ends and people begin paying for content. The list of sites moving toward a pay-model are numerous. Most are doing so by offering a teaser of free content, and charging for the good stuff.
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Impossible tuitions
Almost six years ago to the day, I was part of a protest that saw hundreds of students storm the Ontario Legislative Assembly. Thousands of students had gathered across the country to raise their voices against staggering tuition increases.
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Saila CSS Layouts
A tableless CSS-based, liquid, three-column layout that works in Netscape 4, Internet Explorer 4 and up, Gecko-based browsers like Mozilla and Netscape 7, as well as Opera.
View all (it might be a looong page, though)