Archive for November 2005

How not to achieve 100% captioning    (2005.11.15)

Three-year study shows CBC Television and Newsworld aren’t providing their required 100% captioning

Copyright notice of the year    (2005.11.11)

‘© 2005 Cinelamda Internationale Filmproduktionsgesellschaft mbH & Co. 1 Beteiligungs-KG. All rights reserved’

Toronto Hydro Art Deco System    (2005.11.10)

Scenes from the class struggle    (2005.11.10)

Bit of a clash of eras and sensibilities here.

“Mavis? Can I pop over and borrow a cup of Arial?”

Pumpkin spongiform encephalopathy    (2005.11.10)

Design sites do Web standards II    (2005.11.09)

Do design ‘portals’ still have crappy HTML? (Yes.) And what does this have to do with Armin Vit?

Standards testing and small caps    (2005.11.08)

More bookmarks for standards testing, and a new test page for true CSS small caps

It[’]s Starbucks    (2005.11.07)

I see we’ve found yet another way to write the word it[’]s – with the s in small capitals.

At least it ain’t its’.

Cooper on rye    (2005.11.07)

Neuland means “African-American” according to popular usage. Apparently Cooper Black now means “rye bread.”

I suppose it beats blackletter. Possibly too many connotations there.