Coup: Christie Blatchford is leaving the National Post to join my employer, The Globe and Mail.

Last night had an enjoyable get-together with the nascent Webstandards.TO (although the discussion focused more around ASL as the evening drew to a close). Yesterday also marked the publication of my interview with another Web standards guy, Mark Newhouse, at Digital Web, as well as Steve Champeon’s piece on progressive enhancement (not to be confused with graceful degradation) at Webmonkey.

In the past couple of days I’ve been bookmarking interesting articles/experiments with Web standards I’ve seen around:

• Ben Meadowcroft explains the wonderful world of definition list (via Simon Willison’s Weblog).
• Web-Graphics linked to this amazing demonstration of how CSS3 can improve footnotes online. Now imagine that, combined with generated content. I’ve been experimenting with ways to better present footnotes on the Web, but this beats anything I came up with. For more on how this demonstration works, read XML.com’s new piece of CSS selectors and check out the CSS3 selectors support chart.
• Making tables is fully accessibly is not the easiest task, but here’s Michael Brown’s elegant attempt (again, nicer than mine).
• And Eric Meyer exposes all the elements

The U.S. can now say goodbye to the GIF patent. Canadians have another year or so to wait, though (as do residents of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan.)